Hello all,
I use the ISE and whenever I’m connected via the pssession and It appears that when I run get-help new-mailboxsearch -full I don’t get any results.
I’m assuming this is a New-PSSessionOption I need to configure or change as my guess is it’s trying to pull the help from the CAS server and not my local machine.
Is there anything I can change to allow for local searching while in ISE and connected to the Session.
Thanks!
Probably not accurate assumptions.
Can you run Get-Help Get-Help? In other words, does help work at all in the remote session?
In a remote session, it’s definitely attempting to access help on the remote machine, not your local machine. The remote endpoint may have disabled the Get-Help command, though.
So correction it’s when I add -Full it show’s only this.
SYNTAX
DESCRIPTION
PARAMETERS
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,
ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,
OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, see
about_CommonParameters (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).
INPUTS
OUTPUTS
RELATED LINKS
The same thing occurs when I use the -examples tag.
That’s just auto-generated boilerplate. It means there’s no local help file on the remote machine.
So could I setup a New-PSSessionConfigurationFile on my local machine to tell it to look for the Help files on my local machine?
Also wanting to say Thanks for both this website, as well as all the training you have provided.
Uh… wait, what’s the actual goal here?
I’m not at all sure how setting up a session configuration file (which is just a file) helps anything. What is it you want to happen?
Well the goals itself was to run Help search-mailbox -full or New-mailboxsearch -full and get a better understanding of the -SearchQuery values and what values I can give them.
I found this article which is a bit confusing.
As I wanted to see an example of the search with multiple OR values or AND or NOT.
OK.
So, a couple of things.
(1) You can only get help for a cmdlet if the cmdlet is installed on whatever computer you’re asking for help on. If you’re remote into a computer, that computer needs the command installed. PowerShell won’t look on your local machine for help files if you’re remoting into a machine.
(2) Not every product installs help along with commands. You may need to run Update-Help on whatever computer contains the commands.
(3) If a command is installed, but not the help, you’ll still get an automatically-constructed help file, but it won’t include examples, or detailed descriptions.
Your original thread was “why doesn’t the help work,” which is what I was trying to answer. However, reading https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298173(v=exchg.150).aspx (which is the same as the help for the command would be), the -SearchQuery parameter indeed seems to accept multiple OR values; see Example 4.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298064(v=exchg.150).aspx indicates that -SearchQuery accepts a KQL query; https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee558911.aspx provides a KQL reference.
I tend to find the web-based help more accessible and more up-to-date, and often use that in preference to the local help. It’s also a bit easier for me to float it around in a separate window, resize the text, quickly jump to cross-references, that kind of thing.
Thank you Don!
I do use the web-based help but was hoping the -Full help for Search-Mailbox or New-Mailboxsearch would have more information on the -SearchQuery value including some examples with AND OR NOT statements, or SearchQuery ‘Subject:Value’ ‘Body:Value’ but I’ll test around with it and see if it works. If not I’ll open a new question.
The online help should be the same, or more extensive, than the in-product help; they’re both produced by the same publishing process. Good luck!