The ISE (Intelligent Scripting Environment) Part 1

In this lecture we’re going to dive in and take a close look at the awesome Intelligent Scripting Environment or the ISE

But before we do that, let me show you again how to pin the ISE to the taskbar then customize it to run as administrator. Log into your computer as administrator.

Now type PowerShell, right click on 64 bit version of Windows PowerShell ISE

Click pin to taskbar. Hold down the shift key then Right click on the PS icon in the taskbar, then click properties. Click shortcut, then click advanced now check run as administrator, click ok then click ok again.

Now let’s go ahead and click your PowerShell ISE Icon that we just created. (Should come up in administrator mode)

Now we’re gonna take a look at the menu bar – File, edit, view, tools Debug, Add-ons and Help. We’re not going to go aver each and every option here, but we will hit the high points.
The buttons on the tool bar allow you to run tasks related to writing and running scripts. Items on the menu bar show the default keyboard shortcuts.

I provided you a pdf document called keyboard shortcuts for the ISE. Be sure to download that as well.

File** ** – You can save or use save as to name and choose a location for your PowerShell script. One thing I want to point out to you is that Scripts are saved with a .**ps1 **extension

Edit – You can cut, paste, search, find and go to specified locations in your script.

** Start Snippets **- **(ctrl-J) **Provides code that you can cut and paste to your script.

View

Demonstrate - The next three commands shift the script pane around the desktop.

Tools/Options

Debug

Add-ons – (Commands Add-on must be turned on)

Later, when you are more comfortable with PowerShell, come back to this page and check it out. This link provides various tools that have been created by the PowerShell Community.
Be sure View, Show Command Add-…