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Chapter 10. Designing modules

• Understanding modules

• Locate and load modules

• Install modules

• Creating a module

• Additional resources

Windows PowerShell modules provide a convenient way to package reusable code. By using modules, it is possible to share them between computers, users, and scripts. The use of these modules solves many of the problems that might confront a new scripter. In this chapter, we begin by understanding what a module is and why you would want to use one, we move to some of the decisions necessitated by modules, and conclude with an example of creating a new module.

Understanding modules

Windows PowerShell 2.0 introduced the concept of modules. A module is a package that can contain Windows PowerShell cmdlets, aliases, functions, variables, ...