Windows PowerShell™ 2.0 Best Practices

Chapter 1. Assessing the Scripting Environment

• Why Use Windows PowerShell 2.0? 3

• Comparison with Windows PowerShell 1.0 4

• New Features of Windows PowerShell 2.0 8

• Comparing Windows PowerShell 2.0 to VBScript 16

• Deployment Requirements for Windows PowerShell 2.0 22

• Deploying Windows PowerShell 2.0 23

• Additional Resources 25

With the release of Windows PowerShell 2.0, a number of enterprise customers are relying on a single-script environment to provide all of their script solutions. The advantage to this approach, at first glance, seems obvious: You no longer need to support multiple-script platforms. Is this a valid approach? You will examine the pros and cons to this seeming scripting utopia in this chapter. Along the way, you will look at the requirements ...