Short URL: aka.ms/office-powershell
Overview
A repository to hold the help reference content for Office PowerShell cmdlets. The expert knowledge around Office PowerShell is distributed amongst customers, MVPs, partners, product teams, support, and other community members. Consumers also have various preferences when consuming knowledge such as a website, PowerShell Get-Help, Windows app, iOS app, Android app, and others. The following diagram illustrates the point.
Learn How To Contribute
Anyone who is interested can contribute to the Microsoft Office PowerShell reference topics. When you contribute your work will go directly into the Microsoft Office products and show up in Get-Help for the given Office cmdlet.
Quick Start
Contribute using the GitHub website
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Open your browser, login to GitHub, and then navigate to https://github.com/microsoftdocs/office-docs-powershell
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Browse to the file you want to edit. In this example we will edit https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/office-docs-powershell/blob/master/teams/teams-ps/teams/New-Team.md and add a link in the Related Links section.
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Click the Edit icon which looks like a pencil in the upper right corner.
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Your browser will then open the file in an edit window. We want to add a link so we scroll down to the Related Links section and add the link in the correct format.
Note that since you are likely not a maintainer of the Git repository GitHub will automatically 'Fork' the project into your personal GitHub account. A fork is just an exact copy of the repository in your own account so that you have total access to make edits. You are now 'editing' a copy of the project in your own GitHub account. You can always find it again by looking at your GitHub Repositories in your GitHub Profile (drop-down from your name in top right).
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You can click the Preview changes link to see what the changes will look like.
IMPORTANT The layout of headings and subheadings must follow a very specific schema that is required for PowerShell Get-Help. Any deviation will throw errors in the Pull Request. The schema can be found here: https://github.com/PowerShell/platyPS/blob/master/platyPS.schema.md
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Once you are satisified with your work you submit a Pull Request which asks the maintainer of the main repository (known as Upstream) to pull your edits up. To submit a Pull Request you navigate back to the main repository, https://github.com/microsoftdocs/office-docs-powershell, and click the '''New pull request''' button. You will then request your edits to be pulled up into the main repo. Make sure to click the compare across forks link since you are request a pull from the edits you made that reside in your own personal repsitory. To learn more about pull requests and forking, see https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork/.
Looking for more in-depth content? Check out the following:
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Using more advanced tools with the PowerShell GitHub repo
- Creating content for brand new cmdlets
Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct
Contributing
This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.
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