Useful PowerShell Commands
1) Command to get PowerShell Version: $PSVersionTable.PSVersion 2) Command to get the current directory of the PowerShell Script: a) In PowerShell 3.0 $PSScriptRoot b) In PowerShell 2.0 $scriptPath = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition 3) Read xml file into PowerShell $xmlFilePath = “C:\SampleXmlFile.xml” [xml]$xmlFileContents = Get-Content $xmlFilePath