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Finding and installing modules

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Finding and installing modules

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- [Voiceover] Now one of the great things about PowerShell is just the number of commands and commandlets that we can run on a server. But in previous videos, I really talked about that's not all that's there, there's a lot more that's available to you. Now commands come down in a thing called a module, and all a module is is a collection of commandlets for a particular function. VMware has modules for its tools, Citrix has its tools, Azure, Office 365, they all have their own modules, and you even have additional modules on your systems that may not be available to you, because they haven't been installed yet. So the question becomes how do I find those modules, how do I install them, and how can I start taking advantage of them? So I'm going to go ahead and just run a quick command, to just remind us what get command looks like. Remember all the different commands that we have available on a system. Now how do I know that's all of them? Well, I don't, but what I can also run is what…

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