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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.
Active Directory tools followed a few years later along with tools to manage on-premises virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.
More recently, PowerShell has been offered as a management tool for cloud platforms like Azure and AWS. In addition to modules that can be used to interact with either service, Azure and AWS both ...
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