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The solution is to provide enough of the parameter name to make it unique, in this case posta would be
enough to disambiguate
PostalCode from PostOfficeBox .
Discovering Commands and Getting Help
Now that you have learned the basic concept of using cmdlets, we ’ ll discuss how to go about
discovering cmdlets and learning how to use them.
Even with more than 500 cmdlets in Exchange Management Shell, finding the right cmdlet to accomplish
a task is easier than you might think. Earlier in this section you learned that a cmdlet ’ s name is typically
descriptive of the cmdlet ’ s purpose. Using this knowledge along with some simple commands, you can
quickly and easily find any cmdlet.
Using Get - Help to Find Cmdlets
Windows PowerShell provides powerful built - in help information available directly from the command
line. Most cmdlets have some level of help content stored in a cmdlet help file that can be accessed from
the command line using the
Get-Help cmdlet. You don ’ t need to know where the help file is or how to
get to help information for a specific cmdlet; PowerShell works out these details as part of built - in help.
Besides displaying cmdlet help information,
Get-Help is a powerful tool for finding cmdlets based
on ambiguous name matching. When supplied with a specific and unique cmdlet name as input to the
Name parameter, Get-Help displays the help information for that cmdlet. But if the input is ambiguous,
Get-Help displays a list of all cmdlets that are a close match.
Using this approach you simply need to supply enough of the possible cmdlet name to generate a list
of cmdlets from which to choose. For example, say you would like to learn about cmdlets that are used
for managing Exchange databases but you don ’ t know the exact names, or even which cmdlets might
be available. The command shown in Figure 1 - 11 generates a list of cmdlets that contain the word
database .
Figure 1-11
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