PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

Understanding PowerShell modules

Windows PowerShell modules present a simple way to organize and package our script so as to make it distributable and reusable.

In this section, we will cover the following topics:

• What is a module?
• Script modules
• Binary modules
• Manifest modules
• Dynamic modules

Introduction to modules

Windows PowerShell can be created dynamically or persisted to our disk. While discussing PowerShell modules, for a moment I thought about the old-style snap-ins in PowerShell version 1.0, which still exist. Yeah! SharePoint still has snap-ins and not modules.

Snap-ins only contain cmdlets and providers, whereas in modules, we can have functions, variables, aliases, and PowerShell drives.

Before we create a module, we need to know what a module ...