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Some of the scripts on this page are full scripts to accomplish a task, others are snippets you can copy/paste into scripts you're building.

Self-elevate a Powershell script

Self-elevate Powershell script
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if (-Not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] 'Administrator')) {

    if ([int](Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_OperatingSystem | Select-Object -ExpandProperty BuildNumber) -ge 6000) {

     $CommandLine = "-File `"" + $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path + "`" " + $MyInvocation.UnboundArguments

     Start-Process -FilePath PowerShell.exe -Verb Runas -ArgumentList $CommandLine

     Exit

    }

}

Enable Powershell debugging

For each function you declare in your script where you have Write-Debug messages, add a [CmdletBinding()] before your Param() section:

function Get-Something {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param()
}

Then, call the script with -Debug. This works for -Verbose and Write-Verbose, too.