Microsoft® System Center 2012 Unleashed

PowerShell Support

Like Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010, VMM is written completely on top of Windows PowerShell. Any task that can be completed using the Administrator Console or the Self-Service Portal user interfaces can also be completed using PowerShell. As a matter of fact, each task that is performed using these consoles is actually completed using PowerShell. In other words, when an administrator performs an action from a console, that action or command, shown in Figure 12.1, is passed down to PowerShell for execution.

Figure 12.1 PowerShell command sequence.

The commands shown in the figure were generated using ...