Windows Server® 2008 Administrator’s Companion

Chapter 15. Using Scripts for Consistent Administration

• Introducing Windows PowerShell

• Understanding Windows PowerShell

• Windows Infrastructure

• Exploring PowerShell

• Powershell Scripting Basics

• Windows PowerShell Examples

• Summary

The Microsoft Windows scripting infrastructure has grown dramatically since the late 1990s, and Windows Server 2008 is the first server operating system with a powerful scripting language and command shell built in to the operating system—Windows PowerShell. All versions of Windows Server 2008 except Server Core versions have PowerShell available as a feature. In this chapter we’re not going to pretend to try to teach you how to script—that’s really the topic of a whole book. But we do intend to provide you some basic understanding ...