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About Me
I am certified Microsoft professional, a Microsoft MVP and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Windows server technologies. I work today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. I've co-authored or authored several books, courseware, and training videos on administrative scripting and automation. My latest book is Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShel: TFM 2nd Ed.(SAPIEN Press 2011).
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Tag Archives: Help
PowerShell 3.0 Easy Rider
Today I gave an Live Meeting presentation for the PowerShell Virtual User Group. When the recording is posted I’ll update this post. I spoke about new features in Windows PowerShell 3.0 that I think will make it easier for people … Continue reading
Posted in Powershell 3.0, Professional, Training
Tagged Help, PowerShell, User group, v3
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Create a Master PowerShell Online Help Page
As I hope you know, PowerShell cmdlets can include links to online help. This is very handy because it is much easier to keep online help up to date. To see online help for a cmdlet use the -online parameter. … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, PowerCLI, Scripting
Tagged ConvertTo-HTML, Get-Command, Help, PowerShell, Regular Expressions, Scripting
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New Comment Help
If you follow my blog I’m sure you noticed that I post a lot of advanced functions and scripts. While I don’t expect every one to be developing advanced functions, the closer you can get the more powerful your work. … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged functions, Help, ISE, PowerShell, Read-Host, Scripting
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Get-NumberedContent v2
I wasn’t completely satisfied with the updated version of my Get-NumberedContent function. You should still refer to the earlier post for details on how to use the function. But I had some issues with the previous version and realized there … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged functions, Get-Content, Help, PowerShell, Scripting
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Summary Judgment
While working on a new article for REDMOND magazine about PowerShell 2.0, I wanted to get some cmdlet information. I wanted an easy way to see a list of cmdlets for a given verb or noun. Of course that is easily done with Get-Command. However this only gives my the definition.
After a little experimenting I found that I could get the help synopsis with the actual Get-Help cmdlet, not the Help function. So combining the two gives me the results I need. Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged Cmdlets, Get-Command, Help, PowerShell
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