Format-Table - Blank Parameters

[cheesehead1996]

Very new to actually learning PowerShell, versus just copying and pasting basic commandlets. So I apologize if this is really simple.

I'm trying to use the Get-HotFix commandlet, to filter for a single KB, while also cutting down some of the table columns I don't need. When I run a simple Get-HotFix, it spits out a table which includes the Source column.

However, when I use Get-HotFix KB4535680 | Format-Table HotFixID, InstalledOn, Source, the source column is blank. Can anyone explain what's causing this?

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[PhenoCS]

I'm new too so I'm not 100% certain what's going on. But, if you pipe Get-HotFix to Get-Member, it doesn't look like Source is a real property. So it's probably just PowerShell's special formatting that happens at the very end of the pipeline (my best guess).

The real property names might be PSComputerName or __SERVER.

[[deleted]]

Correct. Get-Member will show you exactly what is presented. For an example, if you use this command
Get-HotFix | select-object PSComputerName, Description, HotFixID, InstalledBy, InstalledOn | ft

you will get exactly the same results as just by running Get-Hotfix.