How I Transformed Over 700+ Help Files With Ease using Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS

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I felt generous and a bit shy on the other side.

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I wanted to include an exercise in my recently published book at LeanPub, and I needed a big fish for that —really, a big fish…

Then I remembered from my earlier days a PowerShell module that was already pre-dominant back then. This was the Pnp.PowerShell module, which exposes a ton of cmdlets that can work with Microsoft Office 365 and many more.

The module contains nearly 750+ cmdlets, which should also contain 750+ Markdown help files. And it did. That's when the idea popped up to lend a helping hand to transform all the help files to the new schema version 2 Microsoft.PowerSHell.PlatyPS module expects.

In this blog post, I'll share with you the journey I went through step-by-step. You will need some prerequisites if you feel frisky and want to follow along.

Prerequisites

• PowerShell 7.0 or above
• Git CLI
• Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0-preview1

Step 1 — Inspecting help content