{"id":181,"date":"2014-12-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/12\/18\/powertip-create-custom-powershell-objects\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:30","slug":"powertip-create-custom-powershell-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-create-custom-powershell-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Create Custom PowerShell Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn about the easiest way to create a custom Windows PowerShell object.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I easily create a custom object that contains only a few of the existing properties of a <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell cmdlet?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Select-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet in the pipeline and choose the properties you want to add to the object:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Process | Select-Object name, id<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn about the easiest way to create a custom Windows PowerShell object. &nbsp;How can I easily create a custom object that contains only a few of the existing properties of a &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell cmdlet? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Select-Object&nbsp;cmdlet in the pipeline and choose the properties you want to add to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn about the easiest way to create a custom Windows PowerShell object. &nbsp;How can I easily create a custom object that contains only a few of the existing properties of a &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell cmdlet? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Select-Object&nbsp;cmdlet in the pipeline and choose the properties you want to add to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}