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As you've seen, PowerShell modules are an

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appealing way for authors of code to

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deliver their commands to users, such as

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yourself, and they make it really easy to

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consume and work with. You saw that a

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PowerShell module, in its most simple

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form, is really just a set of commands

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packaged up as one entity, and all

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commands inside of that module are

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typically related to working with a single

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platform, system, or service. You're now

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aware of the PSModulePath and its

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importance when working with PowerShell

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modules. If you only take one thing away

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from this module, it should be that the

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paths in the PSModulePath variable are

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where modules are located by default, and

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you get benefits from storing modules

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here, such as the ease of importing and

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auto‑loading. Speaking of importing, you

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also explored how to import PowerShell

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modules into the current session, both by

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using a name and a path to a module, and

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then saw firsthand how the auto‑import

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works. The commands inside of a module are

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what you'll end up running both

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interactively and inside any scripts that

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you build, and you worked with several

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methods for identifying and filtering

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which commands are included inside of the

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module. With that said, we aren't stopping

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there. Coming up in the next and final

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module of this course, you'll learn how to

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manage PowerShell modules, including

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installing new modules from the PowerShell

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Gallery, to make many, many more commands

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available to you right at your fingertips.

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You'll learn about updating, removing, and

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uninstalling modules, and in the theory

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component of the module, you'll understand

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the concepts around package managers and

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repositories. It's going to be a lot of

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fun, and it builds a lot on the concepts

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you've just learned in this module. I hope to see you there.