For those not familiar with it, PowerShell is a command line application and scripting tool which provides administrators with amazing tools for automating system tasks through use of scripts. It incorporates numerous utilities; especially a lot better navigation through the Registry and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
It was first announced on August 2005 and after a lot of feedback gathering on how it should work, Microsoft released it.
The cool thing is that everything is done via command line interface and the administrative GUI is layered on top of those commands. Administrators will benefit from this since they can script even the most complicated tasks, so for example, a whole Exchange Server could be set up on a machine with administrator running the setup and a script.
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To find out more head to these sites:
- Windows PowerShell Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell
- PDF Cheat Sheet
