PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

Simple PowerShell commands

Now that we know all the ways that can get a PowerShell session started, what can we do in a PowerShell session? I like to introduce people to PowerShell by pointing out that most of the command-line tools that they already know work fine in PowerShell. For instance, try using DIR, CD, IPCONFIG, and PING. Commands that are part of Command Prompt (think DOS commands) might work slightly different in PowerShell if you look closely, but typical command-line applications work exactly the same as they have always worked in Command Prompt:

PowerShell commands, called cmdlets, are named with a verb-noun convention. Approved verbs ...