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Microsoft Windows PowerShell 1.0 review
Is Microsoft’s new tool a power shell or an egg shell?
By David Cartwright, techworld
- List price:Free
- Pros: Brings Windows scripting into the .NET era, allowing you to do far more than you could with VBScript.
- Cons: The syntax will take you some getting used to – an IntelliSense equivalent would be a nice touch.
- Buying advice: Getting PowerShell is a no-brainer. It’s a no-cost scripting tool that you’ll find a use for before long, so it makes sense to get a copy now and get to grips with it a bit before you have to start using it in anger.
"If you’re used to DOS batch files, VBScript scripts or Unix shell scripts, you’ll find this experience next to useless when trying to get to grips with PowerShell. The syntax is like nothing I’ve ever come across (and I’ve used all three of the above extensively)"
"This said, it’s not the hardest thing in the world to get used to. It’s just a case of learning the keywords and, most importantly, figuring out how to find your way around the help system. The reason for the latter is simple: if, like me, you’re a Visual Studio developer, you’re used to having IntelliSense – a clever little gizmo that enumerates all the possible expansions whenever you type an object name and hit the “.” key, so you don’t have to remember all the members of an object. No IntelliSense means having to type “get-help” a lot – but at least the help function is pretty comprehensive"
"and in fact, most of the common ones have been done for you so they look like DOS commands. So “Get-ChildItem” has been aliased to the more familiar “DIR”."
Read the whole article at Techworld.com - Software Applications Reviews - Microsoft Windows PowerShell Review
Microsoft's PowerShell site can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx with over 500 sample scripts at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx that do almost administrative task on a computer - the sample scripts cover:
| • | Active Directory
Sample scripts for managing Active Directory and Active Directory objects. | | • | Applications
Sample scripts for managing software and applications on servers and client computers. | | • | Desktop Management
Sample scripts for managing such things as desktop settings, computer startup and shutdown, and System Restore. | | • | Hardware
Sample scripts for managing and monitoring computer hardware. | | • | Logs
Sample scripts for managing event logs and plain-text log files. | | • | Networking
Sample scripts for managing and monitoring network configurations and network applications. | | • | Operating System
Sample scripts for managing and monitoring the Windows operating system. | | | | | | • | Printing
Sample scripts for managing printers, print jobs, print servers, and other parts of the Windows printing infrastructure. | | • | Scripting Techniques
Sample scripts demonstrating a wide variety of scripting tips, tricks, and techniques useful to script writers. | | • | Storage
Sample scripts for managing files, folders, file systems, and storage devices. | | |
The Official blog can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/default.aspx and the quick start can be found at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.WindowsPowerShellQuickStart.
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David
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Mon, Jun 4 2007 9:23 AM
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David Overton