Confirm, WhatIf and Force

• These parameters are used with commands that make changes

Get-Help about_Preference_Variables

• Lets use Confirm Parameter:
  • Confirm paramater causes a command to prompt before an action is taken
• Confirm Preference: The variable $ConfirmPreference can have four possible values
  • High (default)
  • Medium
  • Low
  • None
• Lets Use WhatIf Parmeter.
• Force Parameter: With this parameter it will overwrite any existing blocks (errors)

Providers

• Get-Help from Powershell Get-Help about_Providers
• At it simplest Providers present access to data that is normally not easily accesible. We have Providers for
  • filesystem
  • registry
  • Certificate Store
• Execute the commands as shown below

Splatting

• This is way of defining the paramters of a command before usage.
• Individual Parameters are written in a hashtable(@{}), then to use the paramter @ symbol is used

Modules and Snap-ins

• Modules and snap-ins are package collection of commands.