Windows PowerShell Best Practices

Chapter 1. Survey of Windows PowerShell capabilities

• Understanding Windows PowerShell

• Installing Windows PowerShell

• Deploying Windows PowerShell

• Using command-line utilities

• Security issues with Windows PowerShell

• Working with Windows PowerShell

• Supplying options for cmdlets

• Working with the help options

• Additional resources

Understanding Windows PowerShell

Perhaps the biggest obstacle for a Windows network administrator in migrating to Windows PowerShell 4.0 is understanding what the PowerShell actually is. In some respects, it is like a replacement for the venerable CMD (command) shell. In fact, on Windows Server 2012 R2 running in core mode, it is possible to replace the CMD shell with Windows PowerShell so that when the server boots up it uses Windows ...