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Welcome to the Powershell-Profile wiki!

First Read This

• This PowerShell Project is compatible with PowerShell v2 and v3.
• PowerShell Profile is a Server Management Framework.
• The namespace for PowerShell functions is [verb]-PP[noun], PP means simply PowerShell Profile

Installation

The installation and the installed Profile scripts using the project folders and the related PowerShell global variables from the Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.config.ps1 file.

Customizable features

Based on the PowerShell Profile config files definitions you can add these features:

• Add System Variables
• Custom PowerShell Profile script
• Custom PowerShell Profile ISE script
• Enable Open Powershell here
• Get Quote Of The Day
• Git Update
• Log File Retention
• Powershell Remoting

Global Variables

The heart of PowerShell Profile are the following folders, based on these folders you'll find a global variable containing the path to the folder and further useful stuff.

• Variable: $PSapps

  • Application variables used by PowerShell Profile

• Variable: $PSconfigs and folder: configs

  • Add the PowerShell Profile config files to this folder.
  • There aren't any definitions for the folder structure.

• Variable: $PSfunctions and folder: functions

  • Add the PowerShell function scripts to this folder
  • There aren't any definitions for the folder structure.

• Variable: $PSlogs and folder: logs

  • If transcription is enabled, logs will be stored in this folder.

• Variable: $PSbin and folder: bin

  • This folder will be added to the system path environment variable.
  • This folder contains links to binaries mostly used by the package installer.

• Variable: $PSlib and folder: lib

  • This folder contains dlls and modules used by PowerShell Profile.
  • This is the repository for the PowerShell Profile Package Manager.

• Variable: $PSscripts and folder: scripts

  • This folder contains several default scripts from the repository
  • You can arrange things at your preferences.

• templates $PStemplates

  • This folder contains the templates for the PowerShell Profile config files.

After The Installation

By default the install script installs these features:

• Chocolatey windows package manager.
• PowerShell Community Extension module.
• PsGet PowerShell module package manager.
• Add ISE Profile Script
• Autoinclude Functions
• Transcript Logging

Commands

• [PowerShell Profile](wiki/PowerShell Profile Commands)
• [PowerShell](wiki/PowerShell Commands)
• [ActiveDirectory](wiki/ActiveDirectory Commands)
• [Windows](wiki/Windows Commands)
• [Windows Server](wiki/Windows Server Commands)
• [SQLServer](wiki/SQLServer Commands)
• [SharePoint](wiki/SharePoint Commands)

Management Modules

By adding scripts and configuration files to the config folder after the you can make use of this features:

• Multi Remote Management
• Windows Scheduled Task
• Windows Event Log
• [Mail Reporting](wiki/Mail Reporting)
• [Package Manager](wiki/Package Manager)