Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

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Modules and Snap-Ins

Modules are packaged collections of commands that may be loaded inside PowerShell, allowing PowerShell to interact with new systems and services. Modules come from a wide variety of different sources.

PowerShell itself is installed with a small number of modules, including ThreadJob and PSReadline.

You can install modules by adding Windows features or enabling capabilities, for example, the ActiveDirectory and GroupPolicy modules.

Some applications include modules; for example, Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) includes a PowerShell module in the installer that you can use to manage some of the features of the application.

The Windows platform itself includes many modules, most of these having been ...