PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks
by Michael Shepard, Chendrayan Venkatesan, Sherif Talaat, Brenton J.W. Blawat
Introducing Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell is an object-based command-line interface with a very powerful scripting language built on .NET. Windows PowerShell is designed with access to several cmdlets, functions, filters, scripts, aliases, and executables.
From Windows Management Framework 4.0 onward, a new configuration management platform has been introduced in PowerShell 4.0, which is Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC).
Windows PowerShell is very enhanced in the version 5.0 April 2015 Preview release. This is not a stable release, but we will explore the new features introduced in Windows PowerShell 5.0. The current stable version is Windows PowerShell 4.0.
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