Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting

Foreword

We all appreciate a little simplicity when it enters our busy, complicated lives. Technology is no different. In fact, that is what we expect from technology—it should simplify our lives. But it doesn't always work that way.

Sometimes technology can introduce vexing problems we don't anticipate.

With every version of Microsoft DOS and then Windows, Microsoft included separate command-line interface shells. The shell could automate some tasks, but not all of them. Some tasks had to be accomplished manually, which is antithetical—nearly heretical—to our understanding of technology's role.

What should have been simple, automated tasks became slow, frustrating, and manual chores. That conundrum didn't go unnoticed.

Microsoft provided much-needed ...