Vista - Missing cmdlet

Hello All,

I am checking out some of the examples from the book, "Windows PowerShell in
Action" by Bruce Payette and it appears that either the book is wrong or I am
missing some cmdlets. I'm trying to run the Get-DomainInfo and it's not
there, nor is the next one Get-SoftwareFeatures. When I do a help get* there
not listed either.

Any suggestions? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks
ron

Ron wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am checking out some of the examples from the book, "Windows PowerShell in
> Action" by Bruce Payette and it appears that either the book is wrong or I am
> missing some cmdlets. I'm trying to run the Get-DomainInfo and it's not
> there, nor is the next one Get-SoftwareFeatures. When I do a help get* there
> not listed either.

You can checkout the author's forum here:
http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=248

Now, Bruce doesn't usually make any mistakes... ;-)

I suspect these are actually *functions* defined in other parts of the
book. You will need to add these functions to your PowerShell session
or profile to be able to use them.

Marco

Too funny... yeah I didn't think it was Bruce's fault. More along the lines
that I was doing something wrong. Maybe I should read the entire book first.
Thanks for the tip.

ron

"Marco Shaw" wrote:

>
> You can checkout the author's forum here:
> http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=248
>
> Now, Bruce doesn't usually make any mistakes... ;-)
>
> I suspect these are actually *functions* defined in other parts of the
> book. You will need to add these functions to your PowerShell session
> or profile to be able to use them.
>
> Marco
>

Hi Ron,

> I am checking out some of the examples from the book, "Windows PowerShell in
> Action" by Bruce Payette and it appears that either the book is wrong or I am
> missing some cmdlets. I'm trying to run the Get-DomainInfo and it's not
> there, nor is the next one Get-SoftwareFeatures. When I do a help get* there
> not listed either.
>
> Any suggestions? Am I doing something wrong?

If you look at the books index under 'G' you can find an entry
'Get-DomainInfo Script example 500'. So if you look at page 500 you
should find the answer to your first question. 'Get-SoftwareFeatures' is
left as an exercise for you ;-)

hth

Max

"Maximilian Hänel" wrote:

> Hi Ron,
>
> If you look at the books index under 'G' you can find an entry
> 'Get-DomainInfo Script example 500'. So if you look at page 500 you
> should find the answer to your first question. 'Get-SoftwareFeatures' is
> left as an exercise for you ;-)
>
> hth
>
> Max


Thank you Max. It helps to read the entire page before freaking out. ;-)