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MANAGEMENT PROBLEM Graphical management takes to much time Native command line is weak, not standardized, and limited Legacy scripting (vbs) is limited and unsecured No current true interactive management YOUTHEM

MANAGEMENT SOLUTION $Answer=Monad June, First public beta April Renamed PowerShell Nov Release To The Web (RTW) Nov Release with Exchange 2007 Feb V1 released with Server 2008 Oct Version 2 Released Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Jeffrey Snover

POWERSHELL INTERFACE

Verb-Noun o These are designed for us! o What do you want to do?=Verbs o Who do you want?=Noun o Nouns are singular

CMDLET ANATOMY Cmdlet Shell Function Script Commands Native Windows COMMAND NAMEPARAMETERARGUMENTS Positional Arguments Always begins with a dash No Arguments, Its a Switch

3 MOST IMPORTANT CMDLETS Get-Help Get-Command Get-Member and perhaps.... Get-PSDrive Get-Alias

Enough Talk…Demo o Cool Stuff o Don’t Remember any of this! o It’s all RTFM o Don’t Remember any of this….really.

Books Bruce Payette Lee Holmes Don Jones Mike Pfeiffer

Other Resources o m o Blogs.msdn.com/ b/PowerShell o PowerScripting Podcast o Twitter #PowerShell

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