Transform Your PowerShell Scripts with Pass-Through Objects

This will let you create the user, while storing the created object into $user . You can then utilize this to run Set-ADUser or other commands ... This post covers two key PowerShell pipeline parameter ... Defining the output object and writing the output object into the pipeline. Using -Passthru with Export-Excel returns an Excel Package object. $xlPkg = Import-Csv .\sales.csv | Export-Excel $file -PassThru Use to duplicate an item from one location to another. Copy # Add -PassThru to output the new item Copy-Item -Path "master:\content\home ... The option is available in PowerShell 3.0 or higher, allows a user to select one or more objects in the table, and passes them using the ... -IncludeEqual, Shows objects that are equal. By default, only differences are shown. ; -PassThru, Passes the output object through the pipeline. " if ($Passthru) { Get-Item -Path $Output } } #close should process ... PowerShell expressions to implement them. The same is true of ... ... object (try this in Windows PowerShell first):. # reading a hashtable ... ArrayList]@()) -Scope global -PassThru } # log the variable ... If you require local variables inside a pipeline, you can initialize these in the -begin block of Foreach-Object . This scriptblock is executed ... ... pass through" the object. It gave us an entirely new object! You will notice that the PathInfo object doesn't have a Fullname parameter but ...