April 2024
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
8h 51m
English
PowerShell has been around for more than 15 years, but it’s been a fantastic journey. If you missed the memo, PowerShell is now cross-platform, meaning it’s available on more than just Microsoft Windows. I’m still blown away that Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell. It was initially created to solve the specific problem of automating Windows administrative tasks, but a much simpler “batch file” language would have sufficed. PowerShell’s inventor, Jeffrey Snover, and its entire product team had a grander vision. They wanted something that could appeal to a broad, diverse audience. In their vision, administrators might start very simply by running commands to accomplish administrative tasks quickly—that’s what our previous ...