Solve methods not working in a PowerShell workflow.

Q. I'm trying to use methods of an object within a workflow but they are not working. Why?

A. Typically objects have a number of methods available that are accessed as

Workflow RestrictionCheck{    $msgtest = "Hello"    $msgtest = InlineScript {($using:msgtest).ToUpper()}    Write-Output $msgtest}RestrictionCheck

Note that to access any variables within the InlineScript they must be prefixed with $using: since the InlineScript actually creates a separate PowerShell process, runs the code and returns the objects and therefore ordinarily would not have access to the objects in the parent PowerShell process.

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