Comments on: All those PowerShell profiles http://twwilliams.com/blog/2008/12/29/all-those-powershell-profiles/ Discovering and learning Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:53:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Tommy Williams http://twwilliams.com/blog/2008/12/29/all-those-powershell-profiles/comment-page-1/#comment-53530 Tommy Williams Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:56:54 +0000 http://twwilliams.com/blog/2008/12/29/all-those-powershell-profiles/#comment-53530 Interesting point about the PowerShell ISE host possibly changing: but I do think you need separate profiles for PowerShell and PowerShell ISE, if only due to the customizations available like custom menus and commands, and even colors. Interesting point about the PowerShell ISE host possibly changing: but I do think you need separate profiles for PowerShell and PowerShell ISE, if only due to the customizations available like custom menus and commands, and even colors.

]]> By: Jeff Hicks http://twwilliams.com/blog/2008/12/29/all-those-powershell-profiles/comment-page-1/#comment-53520 Jeff Hicks Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:16:11 +0000 http://twwilliams.com/blog/2008/12/29/all-those-powershell-profiles/#comment-53520 Right now you only really have one PowerShell host, powershell.exe. The ISE in CTP3 is a exception that I'm going to ignore for now because it might change. Given that, I would expect $profile to return my profile for the current host. At some point we might have several PowerShell hosts running on our desktops at which point the other profiles will become more relevant. It's also possible that these yet to be developed hosts might have their own profiles, and you very well might want to keep them separate. I guess the bottom line is, read the documentation for whatever PowerShell host or build you are running and plan your profiles accordingly. Jeffery Hicks Microsoft PowerShell MVP http://blog.sapien.com follow me: http://www.twitter.com/JeffHicks "Those who forget to script are doomed to repeat their work." Now Available: Managing Active Directory With Windows PowerShell: TFM Right now you only really have one PowerShell host, powershell.exe. The ISE in CTP3 is a exception that I’m going to ignore for now because it might change. Given that, I would expect $profile to return my profile for the current host. At some point we might have several PowerShell hosts running on our desktops at which point the other profiles will become more relevant. It’s also possible that these yet to be developed hosts might have their own profiles, and you very well might want to keep them separate. I guess the bottom line is, read the documentation for whatever PowerShell host or build you are running and plan your profiles accordingly.

Jeffery Hicks
Microsoft PowerShell MVP
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