Practical App PowerShell: An In-Depth Scripting Crash Course This extended Windows PowerShell column will jump-start your knowledge of this powerful technology. By Don Jones 12/01/2011 More of you ...

PowerShell is a script language and a command-line shell that is built on a development foundation, providing a single platform that administrators can leverage to do scripting more efficiently. The ...

PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language built into Windows that can help you automate administrative and repetitive tasks. If you've used it before, it might already feel familiar.

Windows PowerShell indeed comes equipped with some powerful scripting constructs that enable it to accomplish all the tasks you're used to seeing in a scripting language.

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...