{"id":7701,"date":"2015-02-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/21\/powertip-easy-way-to-troubleshoot-powershell-script\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:32","slug":"powertip-easy-way-to-troubleshoot-powershell-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-easy-way-to-troubleshoot-powershell-script\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Easy Way to Troubleshoot PowerShell Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn the easy way to troubleshoot a Windows PowerShell script.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7462.Q.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7462.Q.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a>&nbsp;I receive an error message every time I run my Windows PowerShell script. What is an easy way to troubleshoot the <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; script in the Windows PowerShell ISE?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7608.A.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7608.A.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a>&nbsp;Highlight the line of code in the script to select it (use the mouse or keyboard shortcuts), and then press F-8 to <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;run only the selected line of code. If no errors arise, select the next line of code and repeat the process until <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;an error arises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn the easy way to troubleshoot a Windows PowerShell script. &nbsp;&nbsp;I receive an error message every time I run my Windows PowerShell script. What is an easy way to troubleshoot the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; script in the Windows PowerShell ISE? &nbsp;Highlight the line of code in the script to select it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-7701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn the easy way to troubleshoot a Windows PowerShell script. &nbsp;&nbsp;I receive an error message every time I run my Windows PowerShell script. What is an easy way to troubleshoot the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; script in the Windows PowerShell ISE? &nbsp;Highlight the line of code in the script to select it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}