Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

Creating and using PowerShell profiles

User profiles are used to set up user customized PowerShell sessions. These profiles can be blank, contain aliases, custom functions, load modules, or any other PowerShell tasks. When you open a PowerShell session, the contents of the profile are executed the same as executing any other PowerShell script.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will modify the PowerShell console profile for the current user on the current host. By default the profile file does not exist, so we will create the file, and then configure it to create a transcript of our actions. To do this, carry out the following steps:

1. Open the PowerShell console (not the ISE) and list your current profile locations by executing $PROFILE or $PROFILE ...