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PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks
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PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

by Michael Shepard, Chendrayan Venkatesan, Sherif Talaat, Brenton J.W. Blawat
February 2017
Beginner
737 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Removing a module – take two

We can adjust the $VerbosePreference, so that we can see what is going on behind the scenes when we remove and (silently) import a module:

Removing a module – take two

Manifest modules

While script modules are an improvement over dot-sourcing script files, manifest modules take modules to a new level entirely. A module manifest is a configuration file for a module that lets you provide information about the module and gives you control over what happens when the module is loaded. The information you can provide includes things such as the author, company, copyright date, and a GUID identifier for the module. You can specify requirements for the module, ...

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