For system, network and cloud administrators
Within a PowerShell session type:
$PSVersionTable.PSVersion
or
pwsh -ver
smartmontools?The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (
— Official description from smartmontools.orgsmartctlandsmartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.
Az stands for the formal Azure PowerShell module containing cmdlets for Azure features. The following PowerShell code will search for the Az module and if it will not find it installed, it will with all of its dependencies. And then, it ill import it into the session.
if (-not (Get-Module Az -ListAvailable)) {
Install-Module Az -Scope CurrentUser -Force -Verbose
Import-Module -Name Az -Verbose
}
else {
Import-Module -Name Az -Verbose
}