Chapter 10. Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

In This Chapter:

 

Debugging and Tracing

171

Commandlet Extensions

174

Command History

186

System and Host Information

187

PowerShell Profiles

189

Graphical User Interfaces

196

This chapter contains a few tips for your work with Windows PowerShell (WPS), including debugging, installing commandlet extensions, using profile scripts and the command history, and displaying user interfaces. The chapter also introduces a few of the available commandlet extensions from third-party vendors and the open source community.

Debugging and Tracing

Regarding debugging, the commandlets offer a few common parameters:

  • With the parameters -Verbose and -Debug, the administrator gets more output than usual.

  • With -Confirm, the administrator ...

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