PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators

CHAPTER 8Functions, Scripts, and Remoting

This chapter completes the introduction to Windows PowerShell in SharePoint 2010 by covering three important components: functions, execution policies, and scripts. We will also look at running Windows PowerShell remotely.

Windows PowerShell Functions

Functions are used in most programming and scripting languages. A function is a named block of code that can be referred to from within Windows PowerShell. When a function’s name is called, the list of statements contained in the function is executed.

A function may accept input in the form of arguments, the values of which can then be used by the code inside the function. The output from a function can be stored in a variable, passed to another function, ...