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Finding and using local modules

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Finding and using local modules

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- Today, to extend your capabilities with PowerShell, you may have snap-ins but most of what you're gonna have is additional modules. That's the term and so that's term I'm gonna use to see if I have any cmdlets that'll help me work with modules. So I'm gonna use the discovery of get-help to find some cmdlets and I want you to notice there are several commands here to work with modules. And I want you to kinda focus on a couple particular ones at first. We're gonna take a look at Get-Module, which will get me a list of modules and then Import-Module, which will load or bring a module in so that I can use the cmdlets that are in there. Now, let's start with Get-Module. Get-Module, if you look at the help file it'll tell you, if you just run this it's gonna show you what modules are currently loaded. And notice I've got a couple of PowerShell modules, and I've run some other commands so I have some other modules being loaded. But notice what you don't see because we're gonna play a…

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