Chapter 26. Beyond the operating system: taking PowerShell further
I know you’ve seen a lot of Get-Process and Get-Service in this book. There’s a reason for that: as I explained toward the beginning of the book, I’m guaranteed of you having access to those cmdlets because they’re built into the base shell. Although we also used Get-WmiObject, Get-Hotfix, and a few other core cmdlets, I like Get-Service and Get-Process because they exhibit almost all of the possible characteristics of a cmdlet. You can use them to master parameters, pipeline parameter binding, and many other key concepts. Once you’ve done so, using any other cmdlet is easy: just read its help file to learn about its parameters, and you’re good to go.
In this chapter, I want to take a brief look at how you can apply those core skills to the cmdlets that come with other products. This isn’t intended to be a tutorial on those products’ cmdlets. Rather, I want this to prove to you that, rather than me giving you fish to eat, I’ve taught you how to fish. In other words, you’re prepared to go out and learn additional cmdlets on your own, without much more help from me.