PowerShell Basics - "Get-Help"

The most important PowerShell cmdlet every administrator should learn is Get-Help. You can use this command to...wait for it...get help with any other command. For example, if you want to now how the Get-Process command works, you can type:

Get-Help -Name Get-Process

PowerShell will then display the full command syntax.

You can also use Get-Help with individual nouns and verbs. For example, to find out all the commands available with the Get verb, type:

Get-Help -Name Get-*