PowerShell_Ise

Applies To: Windows Server 2012, Windows 8

Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is a graphical host application that enables you to read, write, run, debug, and test scripts and modules in a graphic-assisted environment. Key features such as IntelliSense, Show-Command, snippets, tab completion, syntax-coloring, visual debugging, and context-sensitive Help provide a rich scripting experience.

The PowerShell_ISE.exe tool starts a Windows PowerShell ISE session. When you use PowerShell_ISE.exe, you can use its optional parameters to open files in Windows PowerShell ISE or to start a Windows PowerShell ISE session with no profile or with a multithreaded apartment.

PowerShell_ISE.exe was introduced in Windows PowerShell 2.0 and expanded significantly in Windows PowerShell 3.0.

Using PowerShell_ISE.exe

You can use PowerShell_ISE.exe to start and end a Windows PowerShell session as follows:

• To start a Windows PowerShell ISE session, in a Command Prompt window, in Windows PowerShell, or at the Start menu, type:

  PowerShell_Ise
  

• To open a script (.ps1), script module (.psm1), module manifest (.psd1), XML file, or any other supported file in Windows PowerShell ISE, use the following command format:

  PowerShell_Ise <FilePath>
  

  In Windows PowerShell 3.0, you can use the optional File parameter as follows:

  PowerShell_Ise -File <FilePath>
  

• To start a Windows PowerShell ISE session without your Windows PowerShell profiles, use the NoProfile parameter. (The NoProfile parameter is introduced in Windows PowerShell 3.0.)

  PowerShell_Ise -NoProfile
  

• To see the PowerShell_ISE.exe Help file in a Command Prompt window, use the following command format:

  PowerShell_Ise -help, -?, /?
  

For a complete list of the PowerShell_ISE.exe command-line parameters, see about_PowerShell_Ise.exe.

Start Windows PowerShell ISE in other ways

For information about other ways to start Windows PowerShell ISE, see Starting Windows PowerShell.

Remarks

Windows PowerShell runs on the Server Core installation option of Windows Server operating systems. However, because Windows PowerShell ISE requires a graphic user interface, it does not run on Server Core installations.

See Also

about_PowerShell_Ise.exe about_PowerShell.exe Windows PowerShell Scripting with Windows PowerShell