Professional Windows® PowerShell

1.8. Summary

Windows PowerShell is a new command shell and scripting language for the Windows platform. This chapter showed you how to install the .NET Framework 2.0 and how to install Windows PowerShell.

In this chapter, you also learned how to carry out the following tasks:

• Start PowerShell

• Exit PowerShell

• Find out what PowerShell commands are available on your system

• Get help on individual PowerShell commands

• Develop and run a simple PowerShell script

You can, of course, create much more complex scripts in PowerShell than the example I showed in this chapter. Before going on, in Chapter 4, to begin to look in more detail at how some individual cmdlets can be used, I will step aside in Chapter 2 to look at the broader of issues of what is lacking in existing approaches and in Chapter 3 go on to look at the Windows PowerShell approach to improving on what was previously available.