The primary purpose of[ref]is to enable passing PowerShell variables by reference to .NET method parameters marked asref,out, orin. You can also define your own PowerShell function that take[ref]type parameters.
Add columns to PowerShell array and write the result to a table Add computer to AD group Add computers to domain in bulk / mass Add Computers to Security Group Based on OU Add current date to email subject line Add custom AD attribute to user depending on parent OU Add Custom Function to...
function available only to the current scope and subscopes), and private (to create a function available only to the current scope). The default scope is the local scope, which follows the same rules as those of default variable scopes. More Built-in PowerShell Variables The Windows PowerShel...
Enter-PSSessionis designed to substitute the current interactive session with a new interactive remote session. You shouldn't call it from within a function or script or by passing it as a command to thepwshexecutable. Examples Example 1: Start an interactive session ...
Documentation Issue PowerShell Scopes documentation says this about using variables to "Thread jobs": The Using scope modifier is supported in the following contexts: ... Thread jobs, started via Start-ThreadJob or ForEach-Object -Parall...
messages from specific commands and doesn't affect the behavior of the$Errorautomatic variable. The$Errorautomatic variable contains error messages from all the commands in the session. You can use array notation, such as$a[0]or$Error[1,2]to refer to specific errors stored in the variables....
script only performs one task, you can eventually combine it with other scripts to create building blocks. Make scripts modular so you don't have to change the code constantly.Parameters can help youfurther customize your scripts by defining variables to pass different values during script ...
This function will return all variables not defined by PowerShell or by this function itself. The default is to return all user-created variables from the global scope, but you can also specify a scope such as script, local, or a number 0 through 5....
Example 17: Passing variables in nested parallel scriptblocks You can create a variable outside aForEach-Object -Parallelscoped scriptblock and use it inside the scriptblock with theUsing:scope modifier. Beginning in PowerShell 7.2, you can create a variable inside aForEach-Object -Parallelscoped...
The use of objects in Windows PowerShell is pervasive, all the way down to its variables. And you don't have to declare variables up front; you can just start using them by placing a dollar sign ($) before a variable name. While it's not required, you can also tell Windows Power...