Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The get-service cmdlet is used to retrieve detailed information about Windows services."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# Retrieve the service sstatus and start the service if it is stopped.
$status = (Get-service –DisplayName "Windows Audio").Status
If ($status –like "Stopped") { 
start-service –DisplayName "Windows Audio"
}

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