 Jeffrey Snover Partner Architect Microsoft Corporation

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 NamespacesEvents, Jobs, Transactions Shells, ISEs, GUI s, Applications 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 > 570 in WS08R2 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

PowerShell V2 in Windows 7 PowerShell V2 in WS08 R2 PowerShell V2 in Server Core

Managing Raw HW And Other OSes IT Console Managed Platforms WSMAN

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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