Powershell - Environment Setup - Tutorialspoint 3 PDF

PowerShell can be opened by clicking its icon in the taskbar or Start menu. The latest version is 5.0 and can be checked using the $PSVersionTable command. To update, the Windows Management Framework 5.0 must be downloaded and installed. The PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) allows writing, testing, and debugging scripts with a graphical interface and includes features like syntax highlighting and breakpoints. Basic PowerShell commands include Get-Help to explain commands and Get-HotFix to view or install updates.

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Powershell - Environment Setup

PowerShell Icon can be found in the task bar and in the start menu. Just by clicking on the icon,
it will open.

To open it, just click on the icon and then the following screen will open and it means that
PowerShell is ready for you to work on.
PowerShell Version
The latest version of PowerShell is 5.0 and to check what is installed in our server we type the
following command � :$PSVersionTable as shown in the following screenshot and from the
screen we also know that we have PSVersion 4.0

To update with the latest version where it has more Cmdlets we have to download Windows
Management Framework 5.0 from the following link − https://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=50395 and install it.
PowerShell ISE
The Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is a host application for
Windows PowerShell. In Windows PowerShell ISE, you can run commands and write, test, and
debug scripts in a single Windows-based graphic user interface with multiline editing, tab
completion, syntax coloring, selective execution, context-sensitive help, and support for right-to-
left languages.
You can use menu items and keyboard shortcuts to perform many of the same tasks that you
would perform in the Windows PowerShell console. For example, when you debug a script in
the Windows PowerShell ISE, to set a line breakpoint in a script, right-click the line of code, and
then click Toggle Breakpoint.
To open it you just go to Start - Search and then Type - PowerShell as shown in the following
screenshot.
Then click on Windows PowerShell ISE. Or click on the downward Arrow as shown in the
following screenshot.

It will list all the applications installed on the server and then click on Windows PowerShell ISE.
The following table will be open −

It has three sections, which include - The PowerShell Console with number 1, then Scripting
File number 2 and the third is the Command Module where you can find the module.
While creating the script you can run directly and see the result like the following example −

PowerShell Basic Commands

There are a lot of PowerShell commands and it is very difficult to put in all these commands in
this tutorial, we will focus on some of the most important as well as basic commands of
PowerShell.
The first step is to go to the Get-Help command which gives you an explanation about how to
give a command and its parameter.
To get the list of Updates −
Get-HotFix and to install a hot fix as follows
Get-HotFix -id kb2741530