Summary

In this chapter, you looked at the Get-Help, Get-Command, and Get-Member cmdlets. You learned how to use providers and PSDrives. You also saw how to create a calculated property. Using the raw API objects with the ExtensionData property or the Get-View cmdlet was discussed, and you looked at extending PowerCLI objects with the New-VIProperty cmdlet. At the end, you learned to work with folders, and you saw how you can use the New-VIProperty cmdlet to extend the Folder object of PowerCLI with a Path property.

In the next chapter, you will learn more about working with objects in PowerCLI.

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