Powershell Fundamentals

Get Version

$PSVersionTable

Get Log of session

Start-Transcript // will start a log transcript of everything that is typed
Stop-Transcript // stop the transcript
transcript file is stored in My Documents

Keyboard Shortcut

ALT-SHIFT + (PLUS)  // Split panes horizontally (WILL NOT WORK WITH THE NUMBER KEYPAD)
ALT-SHIFT - (MINUS) // Split panes vertically (WILL NOT WORK WITH THE NUMBER KEYPAD)
CTRL + To zoom in
CTRL - To Zoom Out
ALT Arrows will jump from one pane to the next
ALT Shift Arrows will resize panes
CTRL SHIFT W Closes Panes

Help

Use Help followed by the service name

Help Get-Service
Help Get-service -ShowWindow
Help Get-Service -Examples
help About* // * list all about files or you could do help with about name to list just that file
Update-Help // Will update the help files on the system

Finding Commands

Get-Command *user* // find commands that has user in the name