Same like other windows product PowerShell ISE comes with a plenty of help for each commands. This helps are updateable online and offline.
Update-help
If system is connected with internet you can update PowerShell with newest available package. To update the PowerShell help execute command “update-help”. This command will connect to Microsoft update and automatically download required packages. This may take few minutes to update the complete help.
Save-help
If help needs to be installed on the system with no internet connectivity, than two commands needs to be executed. 1. Save-help and 2. Update-help for both commands one more parameter of save-help path and update-help from path is required.
- Command to save help: save-help –DestinationPath <path>
- Command to update help: update-help –SourcePath <path>
Help
To get details about any command execute “help <command name>” for example to get information about save-help command execute “help save-help”
To get help with example on how to execute any command “help <command name> -full”
To get help with only examples “help <command name> -Examples”
To get help on floating window “help <command name> -ShowWindow”
To get help online “help <command name> -Online”
