Getting help
A Word on Fonts Before we dive into the typing anything into the PowerShell console, a quick word on fonts and colours. There are a number of "special characters" that…
About PowerShell
PowerShell - my spell checker keeps trying to correct my spelling to "Powers Hell" and for some this might be a more accurate description, but what is it's history?
Aliases, Modules and Environment Variables
A brief tutorial on aliases, modules and how to read and set environment variables using PowerShell
PowerShell – General cmdlet constructs
Cmdlet structure And so to a discussion on cmdlet structure. PowerShell use a verb noun structure which may be followed by some parameters. Parameters are not compulsory as we saw…
Introducing the Pipeline
The pipeline is a feature that allows the output of one command to be automatically transferred into another command. You can string any number of commands together and they will…
Filtering Results
Often when you run a cmdlet you will get far more results than you can view. You will need to tell the cmdlet which particular ones you want and you…
Output
Any output from any PowerShell cmdlet or script is sent to the pipeline, we will look at this in more detail in the next section, the pipeline has some default…
Pipeline – How is it Received and Handled
In the previous section we looked at piping output to another command, we used it mainly to format the output of a command but we also looked briefly at how…
PSProviders
PowerShell has some things called PSProviders. PSProviders are .NET programs that allow easy access to data stores such as the file system, registry, certificate stores and the environment amongst other…
PSDrives
PSDrives are the presentation of a connected datastore by a PSProvider. They are repesented by a name. ProviderDrive(s)AliasAlias:CertificateCert:EnvironmentEnv:FileSystemC: (*)FunctionFunction:RegistryHKLM: HKCU:VariableVariable:WSManWSMan:Default PSProviders with their Name First of all lets see what…