Ever wonder how PowerShell seems to know how to format objects? When you run

Get-ChildItem or

Get-WmiObject , you only see a few key properties, but a wealth of other information is available through commands like

Select-Object and

Get-Member .

Have you ever written a PowerShell function that you nearly always pipe to

Format-Table ? Wouldn’t it be nice to specify some default properties and force them into a table?

Stop by for a quick hit on how to decorate your PowerShell objects with type names and formatting, including a re-usable tool to abstract out some of the details.

Cheers!