Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

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Introduction to PowerShell

PowerShell is a shell scripting language from Microsoft originally released for Windows in 2006. PowerShell was written to appeal to systems administrators and presents a great deal of its functionality as commands such as Get-ChildItem, Get-Content, New-Item, and so on. Microsoft Exchange was one of the first systems to embrace PowerShell with the release of Exchange 2007.

Windows PowerShell includes the original version through to 5.1, which is the final release of the Windows-specific shell. Windows PowerShell versions are based on .NET Framework.

In 2018, the first version of PowerShell Core was released with PowerShell 6. The move from .NET Framework to .NET Core allows the current versions of PowerShell to ...