Chapter 8

Introduction to PowerShell, the Lync Management Shell, and Regular Expressions

PowerShell was introduced by Microsoft in 2006 as the long-term plan to unify various scripting languages. It is a framework built on and integrated with the .NET Framework and consists of a command-line shell and scripting environment. The first product to take advantage of PowerShell natively was Exchange 2007, and the scope has grown dramatically since then to include almost all of the Microsoft collection of server and system administration products: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2007, SharePoint ...

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