Introduction
Efficient troubleshooting makes your script development faster. Understanding error messages is the foundation of that troubleshooting. For difficult problems, you can use breakpoints to pause a running script and inspect variable values.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe how error messages are stored.
- Explain how to add more troubleshooting information to scripts.
- Describe how to configure breakpoints for troubleshooting.
- Describe error actions in Windows PowerShell.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with:
- Windows networking technologies and implementation
- Windows Server administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting
- Windows PowerShell and its commands to perform specific tasks
- PowerShell cmdlets used for system administration tasks related to Active Directory, network configuration, server administration, and Windows client device administration (Windows 10 and Windows 11)
- Windows PowerShell pipeline, PowerShell providers, and PowerShell drives
- CIM and WMI technologies
- The use of variables, arrays, and hash tables in Windows PowerShell