Hello community, I have been unable to find semi decent assistance when it comes to powershell online so I figured i would ask you guys. Its really one issue and that is with the "where-object" command. When starting the command how do you know which variable to pass over ? For example if I wanted to do; get-process | where-object {$._................ what would i put after the underscore ? Where do i find the variables needed. I apologize if this is a tad out of scope.

Your question is not at all out of scope. It's not $._, but just $_ which gives you the object that's being "piped in." Then you need to add the dot and a property or method of the object. For example, from Microsoft's web page: Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.handles -gt 200} handles is a property of the object.

to check the property or methods of an object I use the "Get-member" command. When i use that for your above example "get-process|get-member" I do not see handles as a property. Also, if the where-object starts with $_ then were does the period come into play ? Thanks.

Also, if i see a property that i want to investagate more, how do i do that. For example if i use "get-service|get-member" and i see a property called "status", how do i find out more about the status property ? This is alittle better than vbsript =)

Here are the first few lines of output when I do get-process|get-member: TypeName: System.Diagnostics.Process Name MemberType Definition ---- ---------- ---------- Handles AliasProperty Handles = Handlecount So handles is just an alternative name for the Handlecount property. The $_ object is treated just like any other object name syntactically. So the dot goes just after it, as in $_.handles. I don't know the answer to your question about investigating a property. I use the Powershell User Guide which is in the program group under the Start menu. I'm in the process of learning Powershell myself.