From the course: Learning PowerShell for Windows Server Administration
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Expanding functionality with modules
From the course: Learning PowerShell for Windows Server Administration
Expanding functionality with modules
- [Instructor] So far, this chapter has been about creating your own custom PowerShell environment, including your own functions and aliases, to fill the gap between what Microsoft provided and what you may want. But surely you're not expected to create all of your own functions are you? In fact, you're not. There are collections of functions, and cmdlets, and script, created for thousands of different tasks. These collections are referred to as modules, and there are several that are installed on your server right now that you're not even using. Take a look at the list by running the cmdlet, Get-Module, followed by the parameter, -ListAvailable. This is going to return a list of all modules available for your to activate that are already on your machine. You have modules full of cmdlets specifically related to Windows Update that are not currently active. And we could scroll through and see several more in here as well. These modules are all waiting to be called up and activated…
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