Windows PowerShell Core About Help Topics
Applies To: Windows PowerShell 2.0, Windows PowerShell 3.0
This section contains the conceptual ("About") help topics that apply to all Windows PowerShell Core modules.
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Describes alternate names for cmdlets and commands in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the operators that perform arithmetic in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes arrays; a compact data structure for storing data elements. |
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Describes the operators that assign values to variables. |
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Describes the automatic variables, which that store state information for Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to use the Break statement, a statement that immediately exits Foreach, For, While, Do, and Switch statements. |
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Describes that Checkpoint-Workflow activity, which takes a checkpoint in a workflow. |
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Describes how Windows PowerShell determines which command to run. |
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Explains the command format in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to write comment-based help topics for functions and scripts. |
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Describes parameters that can be used with any cmdlet. |
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Describes the operators that compare values in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the Continue statement, which immediately returns to top of a program loop. |
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Lists the cmdlets designed for use with Windows PowerShell providers. |
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Describes the Data section of scripts, which is designed to isolate data from code logic. |
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Describes the Windows PowerShell script debugger, a set of cmdlets for debugging scripts and functions. |
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Describes the Do statement, which runs a script block one or more times subject to a While or Until condition. |
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Explains how to access Windows environment variables in Windows PowerShell. |
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Introduces the escape character in Windows PowerShell (`) and explains its effect. |
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Describes the Windows PowerShell event log in Event Viewer. |
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Describes the Windows PowerShell execution policies and explains how to manage them. |
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Describes the For loop in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the ForEach statement, a statement that acts on each item in a collection. |
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Describes the Format.ps1xml files that define the default display of objects in the console. |
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Explains how to create and use functions in Windows PowerShell. |
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Introduction to advanced functions; the functions that act like cmdlets. |
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Explains how to use the methods and properties that are available to cmdlets in advanced functions. |
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Shows how to declare parameters for advanced functions. |
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Describes the CmdletBinding attribute, which identifies a function that works like a cmdlet. |
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Describes an attribute that reports the type of object that the function returns. |
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Describes the Group Policy settings for Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to create, use, and sort hash tables in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to get and run commands from the command history. |
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Describes the If statement, which establishes conditions for an action. |
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Describes the InlineScript workflow activity. |
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Describes Windows PowerShell background jobs. |
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Provides detailed information about background jobs. |
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Describes the Join operator, which combines multiple strings into a single string. |
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Describes the keywords in the Windows PowerShell scripting language. |
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Describes the editing features of the Windows PowerShell console. |
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Explains how to use the working location in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the operators that connect statements in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to use methods to perform actions on objects in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to install, import, and use Windows PowerShell modules. |
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Explains how to work with objects in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to create objects in Windows PowerShell. |
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The overview topic that describes operators in Windows PowerShell. Contains topics about each operator type. |
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Lists the Windows PowerShell operators in precedence order. |
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Explains how to working with cmdlet parameters in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to set custom default values for the parameters of cmdlets and advanced functions. |
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Explains how Windows PowerShell parses commands. |
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Describes full and relative path name formats in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to combine commands into pipelines in Windows PowerShell. |
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Displays help for the PowerShell.exe command-line tool. |
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Displays help for the PowerShell_ISE.exe command-line tool. |
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Describes the preference variables that customize Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to create and use a Windows PowerShell profile. |
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Explains how to create and use a Windows PowerShell profile. |
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Explains how to use object properties in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the Windows PowerShell providers and explains how to use the data that they expose. |
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Describes Windows PowerShell sessions (PSSessions) and explains how to use them to run remote commands. |
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Provides detailed information about Windows PowerShell sessions. |
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Describes Windows PowerShell snap-ins and explains how to use them to extend Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains the rules for using single and double quotation marks in Windows PowerShell, including here-strings. |
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Explains how to redirect output to variables and text files. Includes redirection operators. |
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Explains how to create and use a reference variable type. |
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Explains how to use regular expressions in Windows PowerShell. |
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How to run remote commands in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to disconnect from and reconnect to a PSSession. |
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Questions and answers about running remote commands in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to run background jobs on remote computers |
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Interpreting and formatting the output of remote commands. |
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System requirements and configuration requirements for running remote commands in Windows PowerShell. |
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Troubleshooting remote operations in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to use local and remote variables in remote commands. |
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Describes the Requires statement, which prevents a script from running without required snap-ins and versions. |
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Lists words that are reserved to Windows PowerShell. |
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Exits the current scope, which can be a function, script, or script block. |
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Explains how to use the "Run with PowerShell" feature to run a script by right-clicking its entry in File Explorer. |
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Describes scheduled jobs and explains how to use and manage scheduled jobs in Windows PowerShell and in Task Scheduler. |
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Explains how to create and manage scheduled jobs. |
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Explains advanced scheduled job topics, including the file structure that underlies scheduled jobs. |
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Explains how to resolve problems in scheduled jobs. |
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Explains how to set and change the scope of functions and variables in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to use script blocks to combine expressions, statements and commands into a single code block. |
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Describes the features that make it easy for scripts to display user messages in the language selected for Windows. |
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Explains how to write and run scripts in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes session configurations, which determine the users who can connect to the computer remotely and the commands they can run. |
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Describes session configuration files, which define the environment of sessions that use the session configuration. |
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Describes the Windows PowerShell execution policies, explains how to manage them, and explains to how sign scripts so they comply with the execution policies. |
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Describes the special characters in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to use splatting to pass parameters to commands in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the Split operator, which splits strings into substrings. |
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Explains how to use a switch statement to replace multiple If statements. |
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Describes the Throw keyword, which generates a terminating error. |
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Explains how to manage transacted operations in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the Trap keyword, which handles a terminating error. |
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Error handling in scripts is done using the Try, Catch, and Finally script blocks. |
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Describes the operators that work with .NET types. |
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Describes the Types.ps1xml files that let you extend the .NET types of objects used in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the updatable help system in Windows PowerShell. |
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An overview topic that explains the types of variables in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes While loops in Windows PowerShell. |
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Explains how to use the wildcard character (*) in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the features introduced in Windows PowerShell 3.0. |
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Describes Windows PowerShell® Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). |
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Provides a brief introduction to the Windows PowerShell Workflow feature. |
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Describes the parameters that are valid on all Windows PowerShell workflow commands. |
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Describes Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), which is Microsoft’s implementation of the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) industry standard. |
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Provides background information about Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes WMI Query Language (WQL), which can be used to get WMI objects in Windows PowerShell. |
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Describes the cmdlets in the Microsoft.WsMan.Management module. Explains how to use them together to manage WS-Management features, including the WSMan provider drive. |