PowerShell in Practice

Chapter 15. PowerShell innovations

This chapter covers

• PowerShell jobs
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Active Directory provider
• PowerShell Hyper-V library

This chapter is a collection of topics that represent leading-edge technologies and recent innovations in the PowerShell world. Some are still be in beta. The topics are those we need to consider to round out our PowerShell knowledge and to position us for the future. PowerShell is evolving internally and in the breadth and depth of applications that have PowerShell support. We need to be aware of these changes to ensure we stay on top of automating our administration tasks.

The chapter starts with an examination of how we can use PowerShell jobs to make ourselves more productive...without doing ...