Question

Please complete the following assignment by running the appropriate commands for each step.

1, View the help files of the Get-Process cmdlet, but only shows the Examples

2, Get a list of all available cmdlets that starts with Get-

3, Use a cmdlet to open up a Pop up GUI window to run or copy the cmdlet Get-Service

4, Display a list of all available PowerShell Providers

Answer 1

1, View the help files of the Get-Process cmdlet, but only shows the Examples

-> Get-Help cmdlet it displays information about the PowerShell concepts and commands  including,functions, cmdlets, Common Information Model commands, providers,workflows, and scripts, aliases.

->in PowerShell 3.0 and PowerShell 4.0,you can't find  Get-Help

->to get help for a PowerShell cmdlet, type Get-Help followed by the cmdlet name, such as:-

Get-Help

Get-Process.

Example1- display basic help information about a cmdlet.

Get-Help <cmdlet-name> it is simplest and default syntax of Get-Help cmdlet.

->open Power Shell and type command ans see.

Get-Help Format-Table
Get-Help -Name Format-Table
Format-Table -?

Example2- display basic information one page at a time.

this examples display basic help information about the Format-Table cmdlet one page at a time.

->open Power Shell and type command ans see.

help Format-Table
man Format-Table
Get-Help Format-Table | Out-Host -Paging

Example3- display more information for a cmdlet.

->open Power Shell and type command ans see.

Get-Help Format-Table -Detailed
Get-Help Format-Table -Full

Example6- display help about the help system.

->open Power Shell and type command ans see.

Get-Help

2, Get a list of all available cmdlets that starts with Get-

there are following list of available cmdlets that starts with Get-

->Get-ChildItem

->Get-Clipboard

->Get-ComputerInfo

->Get-Content

->Get-HotFix

->Get-Item

->Get-ItemProperty

->Get-ItemPropertyValue

->Get-Location

->Get-Process

->Get-PSDrive

->Get-PSProvider

->Get-Service

->Get-TimeZone

->Get-Help

3, Use a cmdlet to open up a Pop up GUI window to run or copy the cmdlet Get-Service

open power shell and type this command-

-> $wshell = New-Object -ComObject Wscript.Shell -ErrorAction Stop

-> $wshell.Popup("Are you want to continue from here?",5,"Hey User?",48+4)

4, Display a list of all available PowerShell Providers

there are following list of available Power Shell Provider-

->Get-PSProvider- Get-PSProvider cmdlet gets the PowerShell providers in the current session. you can also get a particular drive or all drives in the session.

Example1- display a list of all available providers.

Get-PSProvider

Example2- display a list of all PowerShell providers that begin with specified letters.

Get-PSProvider f*, r* | Format-List