Vista - Functions: Taking input from the Pipe

I'm working a lot with Exchange 2007 and when I retrieve an object and format
it with FL I get back a list of properties - but also properties that I'm not
interested in(for example GUID, etc).

So I normaly use SELECT to exclude those properties. However, specifying the
properties ever and ever again is a bit boring...

My idea was to write a function to have the same select command available
all the time... here is the function:

function esl {
select * -ExcludeProperty
Guid,ObjectCategory,ObjectClass,WhenChanged,WhenCreated,ExchangeVersion,DistinguishedName
}

Now my problem is that the function does NOTHING. It seems as if it doesn't
take input from the pipe. I tried with SELECT -InputObject $_ - with no
success...

Any help would be appreciated!

TIA
Christian

your function does not receive any objects from pipe. You should specify
that pipeline is the source:
function esl {
$input | select * -ExcludeProperty
Guid,ObjectCategory,ObjectClass,WhenChanged,WhenCreated,ExchangeVersion,DistinguishedName
}

$input contains all objects that was received from pipeline.

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