- Get the latest/greatest. It’s up to version 3 now. It is apparently bundled with other things. It might already be on your windows box.
- Open a CMD shell, and issue this command. (It makes me FURIOUS that this is not mentioned immediately in most documentation I’ve read.) You NEED THIS to run just about any powershell scripts (.PS1 files).
powershell set-executionpolicy remotesigned
- Get the powershell version information:
c:\temp> powershell $psversiontable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 3.0
WSManStackVersion 3.0
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
CLRVersion 4.0.30319.18033
BuildVersion 6.2.9200.16434
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.2
- Start a powershell console windows and update the latest help. Do this periodically.
c:\temp> powershell Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS c:\temp> update-help
- For a good time, open the powershell Integrated Scripting Environment. This is very helpful. That is, it makes it even easier to get-help.
c:\temp> powershell_ise