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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators
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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators

by Jeff Stokes, Manuel Singer, Richard Diver
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
314 pages
8h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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PowerShell usage

Conceptually, PowerShell is a command-line shell scripting language. It is built on the .NET Framework and .NET Core. It is open source and cross platform as well. On Windows systems, it is a great way to perform administrative tasks using WMI, AD locations, or even input as part of script execution.

Generally speaking, the workflow of a PowerShell execution is where a cmdlet is called, with or without multiple defined variables given in the command. The output can be formatted in a variety of predefined ways and is also an object to be leveraged in a script as input for your next cmdlet or script step.

For example, one could run get-disk 0 to determine what our OS sees as the disk defined as 0:

But that is great input for ...

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