TweakWINDOWS: PowerShell

PDF version4Energize your Windows Server 2003 scripts using PowerShell   Combine Linux's command line capabilities with Windows Server 2003's install base and get PowerShell, Microsoft's powerful scripting tool. The PowerShell tool also integrates with just about every API and other interface provided by Microsoft, including WMI and the Registry. PowerShell will become the basis for almost all of Microsoft's management interfaces moving forward and is very easily extensible in order to meet this goal. PowerShell runs on the following operating systems:

• Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
• Windows Server 2003 R2
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server "Longhorn"

Take PowerShell 1.0 for a test drive by downloading it from Microsoft. PowerShell requires the .NET Framework 2.0.