In the first article of the Hyper-V and PowerShell series, we talked about using tab completion to ease the typing burden. There are other tricks that can reduce it even further. Of those, I’m going to illustrate splatting and profiles. Of the two, I usually get much more mileage out of profiles. However, I’m going to introduce splatting first as it will explain some of the things I do with my profile. If you’re someone who does use PowerShell but does not write script files, splatting may not seem like something that can be of use to you. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
So far we have covered the topics on the following list: