Windows PowerShell™ 3.0 Step by Step

Appendix B. Windows PowerShell Module Coverage

Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 represents a major advance over Windows PowerShell 2.0. Especially on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the amount of cmdlet coverage vastly increases. But many of the cmdlets are specialized, and the actual number of cmdlets varies depending on what roles and features the configuration enables. In addition, to get a fuller picture of coverage, it is necessary to include functions—because the Common Information Model (CIM) provider wraps Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes and exposes the result as a function, not a cmdlet—as well as cmdlets. On a default install of Windows Server 2012 with only the File and Storage Services role configured, there are ...