Bruce Payette

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icon location Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA icon location Bruce is a founding member of the PowerShell team and head designer of the PowerShell language. He is also the creator of PowerShell DSC.

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Why do handled exceptions show in ErrorVariable?

$Error was originally conceived as a running log of **all** errors that happened in your script, including exceptions that were caught or when ErrorAction was set to SilentlyContinue The goal...

Need a way to detect output goes to a file instead of the console

Do you really mean a file or just redirected (not a tty/console). IIRC, there is logic in the native command processor that computes whether the output is redirected or not.

Error with RC1 Import-WinModule when called from Linux PS 6.1 remoting to Windows PS 5.1

@banyula Currently this module is only intended to work on Windows. We may change that in the future but for now, Mac/Linux are not supported.

Error with RC1 Import-WinModule when called from Linux PS 6.1 remoting to Windows PS 5.1

@banyula I've labeled this as an enhancement request if that's ok with you.

Add-WindowsPSModulePath adds empty entries in certain cases.

The design was to merge the paths _exactly_ as they are but eliminating duplicates. If there are empty elements in any of the components, they get copied into resulting path....

Enable methods on deserialized objects

As a reaction to WMI, PowerShell serialization was *explicitly* designed to not deal with live objects so this would require big changes in the existing remoting infrastructure. Not only are...

Suggestion: Also include parameter default values in $PSBoundParameters or provide a similar variable that does

There is a strong reason not to change the current behavior: the presence of a member in this collection tells you that the parameter was actually specified in the command...