Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The get-service cmdlet is used to retrieve detailed information about Windows services."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# Retrieve the service sstatus and start the service if it is stopped.
$status = (Get-service –DisplayName "Windows Audio").Status
If ($status –like "Stopped") { 
start-service –DisplayName "Windows Audio"
}

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "To add a firewall rule on a system using the netsh command, you need to open PowerShell with the Run as Administrator option"

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.