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A big part of being successful with PowerShell is

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developing good patterns and practices.

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You need to learn the process of building a PowerShell solution.

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Don't focus on learning the individual commands.

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PowerShell is all about how you put the different pieces together,

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and that's why you need the help content.

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This means on new installs,

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you might want to update help or probably really will need to update help,

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like I showed you in the demo.

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In a corporate environment,

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you might want to develop a process to deploy help content using Save‑Help.

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Remember that help content for PowerShell 7.0 is different

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than the help for Windows PowerShell.

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Yeah, many of the commands are the same,

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but a command in PowerShell 7.0 might have new parameters

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that don't exist in Windows PowerShell.

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And don't try to update help everywhere.

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Remember, you only need updated help where you are working,

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typically your desktop.

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Now I think you'll find the Help function much easier to use

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from the console than the Get‑Help function,

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primarily because of that paging that you saw.

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Can't stress enough, don't neglect to look at the About topics.

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There's a huge amount of information waiting for you.

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Yeah, I'd love you to buy books to learn in detail,

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but you certainly can't beat free.

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Don't struggle trying to figure out how to use arrays in PowerShell.

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Read the help topic about_Arrays.

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Sure, you may want more information,

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but at least you'll have a baseline of knowledge and be better prepared to ask

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questions about the help content that you have already read.

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And it should come as no surprise to you that you need

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to be reading help all the time.

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I've stressed this repeatedly.

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Even for commands you think you know.

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Coming up, I'll show you how to get the most out of that content,

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but if you never look at it, you'll never learn it.

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Don't try to find code samples from Google to blindly run.

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Learn the commands and concepts so that you can figure

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out what you have to do on your own.

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Now it may seem like that takes longer, but in the long run,

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you'll be far ahead of the copy and paste PowerShell users.

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I strongly suggest to beginners find a new command or

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help topic to read about every day.

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I'm a huge believer in the teach a person to fish approach.

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Reading and using help in PowerShell is a huge part of that process.

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For now, go get your PowerShell help updated.

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Coming up,

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I'll teach you how to understand and get the most out

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of the help content you're reading. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in a little bit.