Exchange Shell Colors

You may have noticed that the output of the Write-Verbose - and possibly the color of other "Write-" commands - may change when using standard powershell, exchange shell or other flavors of powershell compared to the Powershell ISE.

I'm a very big fan of ISE so I wanted to change the colors in order to match the ones in ISE.

You can see the colors that are configured on your powershell window using the command

(Get-Host).PrivateData

You'll get something like this


Now that we have a way to see the colors that are configured, what about a way to change them?

First, we'll save the output of the above command to a variable:

$colors = (Get-Host).PrivateData

We are now able to update the color we want by just setting the proper property of the variable:

$colors.VerboseForegroundColor = "Cyan"

Put that in your $profile file and you won't have to worry about colors again!

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