Appendix B. PowerShell 2.0 Preview

At their TechEd Europe 2007 conference, Microsoft announced Windows PowerShell 2.0 and made available a very early prerelease version. WPS 2.0 will be compatible with WPS 1.0 and will include some major advances and a lot of minor advances.

Major advances in WPS 2.0 include the following:

  • A graphical user environment for WPS, including a script editor with syntax highlighting and IntelliSense (see Figure B.1).

    The “Graphical WPS” is still basic at this early stage in the WPS 2.0 product development.

    Figure B.1. The “Graphical WPS” is still basic at this early stage in the WPS 2.0 product development.

  • Remote execution of commands and scripts (on a remote computer or a few remote computers at the same time) ...

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