Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting

Preface

PowerShell is a network scripting language that provides a set of tools to administer Microsoft products. While PowerShell is based on command-line interactions, it is much more powerful than what the standard command line offers. It has built-in sections of code called cmdlets. They simplify functions that you may need to perform on a system. Using cmdlets greatly reduces the number of lines of code that are required to perform actions, compared to other scripting languages, such as VBScript.

PowerShell is based on the verb-noun naming convention, which allows scripters to declare an action followed by an object to configure. For example, the get-service cmdlet easily designates that you are getting a Windows service. This literal naming ...