Having data on the output might be fine for some administrators but, with PowerShell, we want to interact with our data. This recipe will show you that the information you see on your screen has a lot more to offer by having a first look at objects in the context of PowerShell scripting.
Using variables, you can store a reference to one or more objects in order to access them later on. Not only is it convenient while interactively working on the command line, but it might also mean that your scripts execute faster since the data isn't retrieved unnecessarily.
In this recipe, we'll see that the output you can observe isn't at all what it seems.
