Wiki Life: PowerShell PowerPack!

Today's post is a quick one, but it's something close to my heart! 

I'm constantly writing Wiki articles and blog posts about PowerShell. PowerShell is awesome, and so many tasks can be simplified using it. Sharing examples is something I like to do, and I always turn to one tool to format my code examples... The PowerShell PowerPack!

The PowerShell PowerPack is documented on the Technet Wiki here, Wiki: How to Insert Formatted Windows PowerShell Code on TechNet Wiki

It's a module that, once imported into PowerShell, allows you to copy and paste colorised PowerShell code as HTML. Great for pasting code examples into Wiki articles!!

Here's an example from one of my articles, SharePoint 2013: Get Set and Copy User Profile Properties using PowerShell

 [void][reflection.assembly]::Loadwithpartialname("Microsoft.Office.Server");                        
$site=new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("https://c05470sp10:7443");                        
$serviceContext = Get-SPServiceContext $site;                        
$site.Dispose();                        
$upm = new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($serviceContext);                        
$userProfile = $upm.GetUserProfile("myarlett@company.com");

Awesome huh!?

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 17, 2014
  Formatted code is easier to read. The colorization also helps, and makes it look more professional.
• Anonymous
  September 18, 2014
  Awesome!
  Thanks Matthew for sharing! :-)
• Anonymous
  September 19, 2014
  The comment has been removed
• Anonymous
  September 23, 2014
  Helpful, thanks
• Anonymous
  September 25, 2014
  Thanks for share.
• Anonymous
  September 25, 2014
  This is a fantastic contribution to the community!
  
  The first link in the article seems to be broken: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3341
  
  Thoughts?