We’re nearing the end of your month of lunches, so we’d like to share a few random extra tips and techniques to round out your education.
Every PowerShell session starts out the same: the same aliases, the same PSDrives, the same colors, and so forth. Why not customize the shell a little bit more?
We’ve explained before that there’s a difference between a PowerShell hosting application and the PowerShell engine itself. A hosting application, such as the console or the VS Code, is a way for you to send commands to the PowerShell engine. The engine executes your commands, and the hosting application is responsible for displaying the results. The hosting application is also responsible for loading and running profile scripts each time the shell starts.
These profile scripts can be used to customize the PowerShell environment by loading modules, changing to a different starting directory, defining functions that you’ll want to use, and so forth. For example, here is the profile script that Sarah uses on her computer:
Import-Module ActiveDirectory Import-Module DBATools cd c:\