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Creating scripts in ISE

Creating scripts in ISE

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Creating scripts in ISE

- [Instructor] By now you should have a pretty good foundation of how cmdlets and functions work, and you've seen the creation of a script in Notepad. But Microsoft has given you a more powerful tool than Notepad for creating and testing your PowerShell scripts. Windows PowerShell includes an integrated scripting environment, or PowerShell ISE. You can find it two ways: you can click on the start button and type ISE and allow Cortana to find it for you, or you can right-click on any PowerShell icon and select Run ISE as an Administrator or as a regular user. If you haven't looked for it before and you right-click on a PowerShell icon and it's not in the list, you can select More and you'll see all the options that haven't been presented to you before. I've already run ISE on this machine so it does appear in the list for me. The layout of ISE is pretty straightforward. The screen is split to give you a space to type your PowerShell script and an instance of PowerShell to allow you to…

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