Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

A PowerShell profile is a just a script with a .ps1 extension that is run every time you start the shell. You can think of a profile as a logon script for your PowerShell or Exchange Management Shell session. Inside your profile you can add custom aliases, define variables, load modules, or add your own functions so that they will be available every time you start the shell. In the previous example, we used the automatic shell $profile variable to create a profile script for the current user, which, in this case, would create the profile in the $env:UserProfile\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\directory.

Since PowerShell is simply executing a .ps1 script to load your profile, your execution policy must allow the execution of scripts ...