Building PowerShell 7 profile files

In Windows PowerShell and PowerShell 7, profile files are PowerShell scripts that PowerShell runs each time you start a new instance of PowerShell (whether the console, ISE, or VS Code). These files enable you to pre-configure PowerShell 7. You can add variables, PowerShell PSDrives, functions, and more using profiles. As part of this book, you download and install initial profile files based on samples that you can download from GitHub.

This recipe downloads and installs the profile files for the PowerShell 7 console.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on SRV1 after you have installed PowerShell 7.

How to do it...

1. Discovering the profile filenames

   $ProfileFiles = $PROFILE |  Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty
   $ProfileFiles | Format-Table -Property Name, Definition
   

2. Checking for the existence of each ...