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Using the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)

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Using the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)

- When you start scripting, you're going to start using Notepad, and I want to stop you from doing that right now. There is no good reason to write scripts in Notepad, and let me give you the reason why. Because you get something absolutely free. With PowerShell comes the ISE. And I'm going to strike enter. Now, there are third party products that you can get that are more professional development environments for PowerShell scripting, but since you're getting started with PowerShell, there's nothing wrong with using this. This is a great learning tool to get started with. This is free. It comes built in already. It's the integrated scripting environment and let me take you on a quick tour and then we'll build a script in here. So over here to the right is a way that you can call up commands really quickly and take a look at those commands and the parameters that they have that you can find as you're looking for them and getting a list of them. Now, I'm going to temporarily turn this…

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