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04 | Advanced FunctionsJeffrey Snover | Distinguished Engineer & Lead ArchitectJason Helmick | Senior Technologist, Concentrated Technology

• The purpose to Advanced Functions

• An Advanced Function template

• Creating and testing parameters

• Adding your code

• Writing objects out to the pipeline

Module Overview

The purpose to Advanced Functions• You can create functions that are similar to cmdlets using

PowerShell

• These are not the same as compiled cmdlets, but are perfect the for IT pro!

Advanced Function template

• You can make your own

• The ISE has built-in templates

• Try Ctrl-J

Creating and testing parameters• Can test params using IF and Foreach constructs

Adding your code• The Foreach iterates through the computer names

• Place the properties into a hash table

Writing objects out to the pipeline

• New-Object

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