Error handling in PowerShell
Before we go ahead and talk about how to handle errors or avoid them while writing scripts in PowerShell, let's speak about a few of the inherent features of advanced functions that can help end users. These are Write-Verbose, Write-Error, Write-Warning, and –Whatif. These are not typical error handling ways in PowerShell, but by using these in advanced functions, you can provide more ways to avoid errors in scripts.
Write-Verbose allows you to define more information for end users when they run the script/function/cmdlet with the –Verbose option. The same goes for the Write-Error and Write-Warning options. Defining –Whatif would allow end users to know what exactly the script will do if it is run normally. The following ...
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