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Hey, everyone.

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Welcome back to the last part of my course on getting

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the most out of PowerShell help.

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while you should be able to get a lot of useful information locally,

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that is from a PowerShell prompt, there are in fact other ways.

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Now PowerShell help can actually be quite rich.

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You've seen already that PowerShell help can be updated from online sources.

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There is also a provision in PowerShell help to provide a link

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to an online version of the help content.

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Now this isn't a requirement in PowerShell,

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and you'll encounter plenty of help files that don't use it,

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but it can be very useful when it is available.

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As far as I can tell,

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all of the core PowerShell commands from Microsoft have online links.

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This is good because often the online source can be updated

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without having to wait for the help to be packaged for

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downloading when you run update help.

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Basically what I'm trying to say is the online help is often the most

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current and eventually will be the help that you see locally.

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The other thing I want you to know,

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and a reason for checking out the online help,

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is that PowerShell's help files are all open source.

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People like you can post issues against the documentation,

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reporting mistakes or making suggestions for additional content,

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or because it is open source, anyone, again,

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could be you, can submit a pull request and improve the

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quality of the help files. Now don't worry, I'm not going to

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get into that process in this course, but it is something I wanted you to be aware of.