Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Profiles

As users become more and more familiar with PowerShell, they typically develop customizations that they may want to save for the next time PowerShell is opened. PowerShell has several profiles that can be used to configure user and system-wide settings. The system-wide profile is easy to access using the following:

PS>notepad $profile

Note

On a new install, this file typically doesn’t exist, so don’t be surprised if a window pops up asking you to create the file. Adding commands to the profile is usually as easy as adding the exact same commands that you would execute in the shell directly into the profile.