From the course: Advanced PowerShell: Automating Active Directory Administration
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Get and Help commands
From the course: Advanced PowerShell: Automating Active Directory Administration
Get and Help commands
- [Instructor] Prior to using PowerShell, you should understand how to use the get and the help commands if you get stuck on a complex commandlet. This will happen many times to most admins. So it's a great idea to learn how to use these commands that will assist you in fixing the problems. So I'm going to start out by opening up PowerShell, my Windows 2022 server, and I'm going to choose admin just to make sure I have all the rights that I need. I'm going to type in cd\ to take us to the root of the drive and just make it a little bit easier to see what I'm about to type. In front of any PowerShell command you can type get- and then you can start scrolling through all the different options that start with the word get. And this works with any commandlet, so you can use add, you can use set, all the different types of commandlets. If you haven't done this before, go ahead and pause the video and open up PowerShell and…
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