Jeffrey Snover Partner Architect Microsoft Corporation ES24

As interactive and composable as BASH/KSH As programmatic as Perl/Python/Ruby As production oriented as AS400 CL/VMS DCL Allows access to data stores as easy to access as filesystem

Automation Frameworks Cmdlets In-Proc, Local, Remote Runtime Engines Automation Platform (API) ScriptingLanguage Type Normalizers ProvidersEvents, Jobs, Transactions Shells, ISEs, GUI s, Applications Universal Interactive or programmatic Wide range of OSes Local or Remote Single or Multi Machine Synch or Asynch Wide range of authentication mechanisms.NET, native code, COM, WMI, ADSI, XML, ADO, WebServices, WSMAN, etc Simple scripting to systems programming Powered by a strong community

V1V2 Developer Cmdlets and/or providers Help PowerShell cmdlets Transaction support PowerShell CLI & API Rich language w/access to com, wmi,.Net, adsi, xml & ado Utilities to manipulate, format, import/export 129 Cmdlets Web service & workflow activities Richer language w/access to web services, unmanaged code, wsman Richer utilities including eventing, job control, remote execution 241 Cmdlets Graphical ISE to create/debug scripts Users Simple ad hoc scripts Sophisticated production scripting Systems programming Across multiple machines Community Write and share scripts Write and Share Modules V1 Scripts and Cmdlets run on PowerShell V2

IT Console Managed Platforms WSMAN

Power Off Command Invoke-WSManAction -CN $svr -cred $cred -port ` -Auth digest CIM_ComputerSystem ` –Action RequestStateChange ` ` Chassis Class Get-WSManInstance -CN $svr -cred $cred -port Auth digest -enum CIM_Chassis Chip Class Get-WSManInstance –CN $srv -cred $cred -port Auth digest -enum CIM_Chip Power On Command Invoke-WSManAction -CN $svr -cred $cred -port ` -Auth digest CIM_ComputerSystem ` –Action RequestStateChange ` `

Used by over 600 million users worldwide

Company1 SMB2 Hosting Service – Data Farm CoolLabs.com

SMB2 Runspace com Runspace com Company1

Windows PowerShell V2

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