Getting Started with Service Manager Cmdlets for Windows PowerShell: Create $Profile #sysctr

Every time you start a Windows PowerShell session to run a Service Manager cmdlet, you must first add the Service Manager Windows PowerShell snap-in. As most of us are lazy admins I created a “service manager” profile having all Service Manager cmdlets by default available when starting PowerShell session.

Create a profile

• Before we decide to create a profile, let’s check to see whether we already have one:
  

Test-Path $profile

• If the profile exists this command will return True; if it doesn’t exist, the command will return False. If this command returns False, you need to create the profile.
  

Creating a profile is really easy. Simply type this at the command prompt:

 

New-Item -path $profile -type file -force

 

We pass three parameters to New-Item:

• -path $profile We’re passing the full path, stored in the $profile variable, of the item we want to create.
  
• -type file This tells New-Item what type of item we’re creating, in this case a file.
  
• -force This parameter tells New-Item to create the full path and file no matter what.
  

Now you can open the profile and take a look:

notepad $profile

• Copy the following code and close notepad.
  

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Add-PSSnapIn SMCmdletSnapIn

Get-Command –pssnapin -SMCmdletSnapin

• When starting a PowerShell session Service Manager cmdlet’s are automatically loaded including a List of the Service Manager Cmdlets.
  

Perhaps very simple but useful…

Some additional Service Manager PowerShell resources:

Service Manager and PowerShell

CodePlex Project: Service Manager PowerShell cmdlets

Creating PowerShell Cmdlets for Service Manager

Sources:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff461183.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692764.aspx