How to get help with PowerShell

PowerShell comes with a lot of in-built cmdlets, and with the addition of every new module, the list of available cmdlets increases. You can use your favorite search engine to get more information on a cmdlet. You can do this from the PowerShell window as well. The cmdlet to get the help is this:

Get-Help nameofcmdlet

Here's an, for example:

Get-Help Get-Service

The following screenshot shows the output for the preceding command:

This is useful if we would like to get help but don't want to leave the Command Prompt.

If you would like to get help from the official online documentation, you can use the following cmdlet:

Get-Help Get-Service -online

This will open the online help manual of the cmdlet with your default browser:

If you would like to quickly check whether there are any commands available for a particular service, you can use the following cmdlet:

Get-Command *Service*

This will give all the commands that contain the Service service in all the modules that are loaded: