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reference/3.0/ISE/ISE.md

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# ISE Module
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## Description
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This section contains the help topics for the cmdlets that are installed with the Windows PowerShell ISE module. The ISE module contains cmdlets that add features to Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE).
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This section contains the help topics for the cmdlets that are installed with the Windows PowerShell® Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) module.
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The Windows PowerShell ISE module contains cmdlets that add features to Windows PowerShell ISE.
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## ISE Cmdlets
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### Get-IseSnippet.md
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Gets snippets that the user created.
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### [Get-IseSnippet](Get-IseSnippet.md)
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Gets snippets that the user created.
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### Import-IseSnippet.md
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### [Import-IseSnippet](Import-IseSnippet.md)
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### [New-IseSnippet](New-IseSnippet.md)
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Creates a Windows PowerShell ISE code snippet.

reference/3.0/Microsoft.PowerShell.Core/Microsoft.PowerShell.Core.md

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Gets the Windows PowerShell sessions on local and remote computers.
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Gets the PowerShell sessions on local and remote computers.
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reference/3.0/Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics/Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics.md

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# Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics Module
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This section contains the help topics for the cmdlets that are installed with Windows PowerShell Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics module, which contains cmdlets that manage data from event logs and performance counters.
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This section contains the help topics for the cmdlets that are installed with the PowerShell
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Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics module, which contains cmdlets that manage data from event logs.
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## Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics Cmdlets
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### [Export-Counter](Export-Counter.md)
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The Export-Counter cmdlet takes PerformanceCounterSampleSet objects and exports them as counter log files.
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Exports performance counter data to log files.
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### [Get-Counter](Get-Counter.md)
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### [Import-Counter](Import-Counter.md)
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reference/3.0/Microsoft.PowerShell.Host/Microsoft.PowerShell.Host.md

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Creates a record of all or part of a PowerShell session to a text file.
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reference/3.0/Microsoft.PowerShell.Security/Microsoft.PowerShell.Security.md

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### [ConvertFrom-SecureString](ConvertFrom-SecureString.md)
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Provides access to X.509 certificate stores and certificates in PowerShell.
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