MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs

ms.date: 05/13/2026

PowerShell Documentation

Welcome to the PowerShell-Docs repository, the home of the official PowerShell documentation.

Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.

PowerShell Updatable Help (CabGen) CI Build Status

Repository Structure

The following list describes the main folders in this repository.

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    "📁 PowerShell-Docs"
        "📁 .devcontainer - VS Code Remote Containers configuration"
        "⚙️ .github - GitHub repository configuration and workflows"
        "💻 .vscode - VS Code settings and recommended extensions"
        "📁 assets - Downloadable files linked in documentation"
        "🔀 redir - URL redirection mapping files"
        "📚 reference - Published documentation content"
            "📘 5.1 - PowerShell 5.1 cmdlet reference"
            "📘 7.4 - PowerShell 7.4 cmdlet reference"
            "📘 7.5 - PowerShell 7.5 cmdlet reference"
            "📘 7.6 - PowerShell 7.6 cmdlet reference"
            "📘 7.7 - PowerShell 7.7 cmdlet reference"
            "🍞 bread - Breadcrumb navigation TOC"
            "📖 docs-conceptual - Conceptual articles published to learn.ms"
            "📄 includes - Markdown include files"
            "🗺️ mapping - Version mapping configuration"
            "🖼️ media - Images used in documentation"
            "📦 module - Module Browser page source"
        "🧪 tests - Pester tests for build validation"
        "🔧 tools - Build system tools and scripts"

[!NOTE] The reference content (in the numbered folders) is used to create the webpages on the Docs site as well as the updateable help used by PowerShell. The articles in the docs-conceptual folder are only published to the Docs website.

Contributing

We welcome public contributions into this repository via pull requests into the main branch. Please note that before we can accept your pull request you must sign our Contribution License Agreement. This is a one-time requirement.

For more information on contributing, read our contributor's guide. The contributor's guide contains detailed information about how to contribute documentation, suggested tools, and style and formatting requirements. Please use the Issue and Pull Request templates to help keep documentation consistent across versions.

Licenses

There are two license files for this project. The MIT License applies to the code contained in this repo. The Creative Commons license applies to the documentation.