Vista - Loading Powershell Snapins in your Profile

Loading Powershell Snapins in your Profile
http://halr9000.com/article/425

I’ve recently started to sync my Powershell profile between my work and home
PCs. What I quickly found out however, was that I had some Powershell snapins
installed on one computer, but not the other. Here’s a bit of script which I
came up with to handle things cleanly.

1: $snapins = “psmsi”, # Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions
2: “PshX-SAPIEN”, # AD cmdlets from Sapien
3: “GetGPObjectPSSnapIn”, # GPO management
4: “PowerPad”, # mini-editor
5: “Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement”, # more AD stuff
6: “Microsoft.Office.OneNote”
7: $snapins | ForEach-Object {
8: if ( Get-PSSnapin -Registered $_ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue ) {
9: Add-PSSnapin $_
10: }
11: }

In lines 1-6 you see I’m building an array called $snapins. Each one of these
is the exact name of the snapin as seen when you run ‘get-pssnapin -r’ at the
prompt.

Line 7: I use a foreach-object loop to iterate through each item in the array.

Line 8: Get-PsSnapin takes as an optional parameter the name of a snapin, so
this If block evaluates to true if the current snapin in the loop (that’s using
the $_ automatic variable) is indeed installed.

Line 9: If it’s true…I add the snapin to the current session using the
Add-PsSnapin cmdlet.

Hope you find this useful!
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Hal Rottenberg
blog: http://halr9000.com
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http://halr9000.com/article/category...ng/powershell/