Preface
PowerShell was first introduced to the world at the Professional Developer's conference in Los Angeles in 2003 by Jeffrey Snover. Code-named Monad, it represented a complete revolution in management. A white paper written around that time, The Monad Manifesto (refer to http://www.jsnover.com/blog/2011/10/01/monad-manifesto/) remains an amazing analysis of the problem at the time – that of managing large numbers of Windows systems. A key takeaway is that the GUI does not scale, whereas PowerShell does.
PowerShell has transformed the management of complex, network-based Windows infrastructure, and, increasingly, non-Windows infrastructure. Knowledge of PowerShell and how to get the most from PowerShell is now obligatory for any professional ...
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