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Question

I found a page of Powershell documentation dated 2010 written for Powershell version 2.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315303.aspx

That page is for a particular command. Where can I read the rest of the documentation for version 2? The left sidebar just shows 'TechNet Library' and has no Powershell links.

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I found docs for Powershell Version 1 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848793

and pre-release docs for version 3 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978526

Answer 1

The pre-release Windows PowerShell 3.0 documentation covers both Windows PowerShell 2.0 and 3.0. New cmdlets and parameters, and new behavior, are clearly marked. This is really obvious in a help topic for a cmdlet like Get-Command which changed significantly between 2.0 and 3.0.

We're adding an "Applies To" field at the topic of every page to show which versions of Windows PowerShell are covered in each topic.

I thought this was more convenient than having to go to two different doc sets and compare them. Let me know if this works for you!

Thanks, June

June Blender [MSFT] Senior Programming Writer Windows PowerShell Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Twitter: @juneb_get_help

Answer 2

In v2, you can get the help for any given cmdlet using Get-Help -Online parameter:

Get-Help <cmdletName> -Online