Powershell properties

[alanrenouf]

Hi, I have just started in powershell (completed my first script today http://teckinfo.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-first-powershell.html)

I was wondering if there was a command that would show me all properties of an item ? I often want to display information but am not sure of its property name.

Example... Get-VM | Select-Object -property "Name","PowerState","Description","NumCPU","MemoryMB"

Thanks

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Get-Member is one of your best friends

Joking aside, have a look at Keith Hill's blog on Effective PowerShell

[alanrenouf]

Aha I see, thanks...

get-vm | get-member -Membertype property

[halr9000]

Also, try "get-foo | format-list *" sometime. You'll find that most times, many properties are not displayed by default. This shows them all.

Hal Rottenberg

Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)

[alanrenouf]

Thanks guys, now to try and ammend my script in my first post to export information about each hosts CPU/Memory so that I can create a nice report in Excel and then draw pretty graphs!