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Updating your most important resource: Help

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Updating your most important resource: Help

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- Your most important resource is the help system in PowerShell. My most important resource is the help system in PowerShell. And PowerShell ships with no help. That's right, I said it. The first thing you have to do when you launch PowerShell is update the help system. The reason they stopped shipping the help system with it-- Well, there's two reasons to it: One, it needs to be updated and it was very difficult in prior versions of PowerShell to update it. So starting with Server 2012 and Windows 8 PowerShell doesn't come with the help already in the system, you have to update it. You can update it by typing update-help and I'm gonna show you a special switch. We haven't talked about syntax yet but we're going to. I'm going to use -force. Here's what's going to happen when I update this. It's gonna go out to the Internet, it's gonna download the most current help files and what -force means is if I've already run this once today, do it again. In other words, if you run this it's a…

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