Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Chapter 2: Using Exchange Management Shell

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To create your own current user Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 script file and open it in

Notepad for editing, run the following commands:

[PS] C:\ > New-Item -Path $profile -ItemType file -Force

Directory: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\Documents and Settings\

Administrator\My Documents\WindowsPowerShell

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

---- ------------- ------ ----

-a--- 8/4/2007 12:25 PM 0 Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

[PS] C:\ > Notepad $profile

The New-Item cmdlet is used to create a new item of type file in the location specified by the Path

parameter, in this case

$profile . Windows PowerShell provides the automatic variable $profile ,

which always points to the path for the current user profile file. This makes it easy to create and edit the

profile file because this variable is always set according to the current user context. The new file is

opened for editing by invoking

Notepad followed by the path to the profile file, again provided by the

$profile variable.

To add function, alias, and variable definitions to the profile file, simply add them as if you were

entering them from the command line. The following example adds the function definition from a

previous example, an alias definition, and a variable definition:

#Administrator’s current user profile

#updated 07-12-07: added variable definition ...