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Longhorn:: 10 Reasons to look at Windows Longhorn Part 2: PowerShell

  • Artikkeli

PowerShell is our newest and coolest command line shell and scripting language. It is built on the .Net Framework and introduces features that enable command-line users and script writers to leverage the power of that foundation. It introduces a number of powerful new concepts, but it enables you to reuse both the knowledge you have gained and the scripts you have created within the Windows Command Prompt and Windows Script Host environments.

 

There are over 130 standard commandlets ("cmdlets") for completing common system administration tasks such as working with the registry. Exchange 2007 was the first team that worked with PowerShell and created over 350 cmdlets to manage an Exchange 2007 environment. Other products like Operations Manager 2007, Virtual Machine Manager are also leveraging the power of PowerShell. PowerShell is a verb-noun based scripting language for example the help command is Get-Help.

 

With Vista now released we also introduced 13 new WMI providers like Bitlocker, TPM, IIS7, .... we are also able to query those WMI providers trough PowerShell.

Lot's of customers ask us questions like do I have to learn .Net, I have a set of tools do I need to rewrite them? ...

Well the good news is that you don't need to learn .Net and you can still use your existing tools. It's really easy to start with PowerShell you can learn on your own pace and there is online help available. What I personally do like about this shell is that it's very easy to try a script out, you can actually execute line by line and then put it in a script. This was rather difficult with for example VBScript where you had to debug the script.

It's also easy to access your files and even registry from within the shell - "cd HKCU". With this simple command you just have access to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive in the registry.

There are some third parties that leverages the power of Powershell:

NetCmdlets

PowerGadgets ( tutorial for IT Pro's )

And I am sure that there are many other tools available today.

 

Community Resources:

Channel 9 tag: https://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Monad

Team blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell/O

Mark van Orsouw’s blog: https://thepowershellguy.com

Arul Kumaravel's Blog:https://blogs.msdn.com/arulk

Lee Holmes' Blog:https://www.leeholmes.com/blog

Abhishek Agrawal’s Blog:https://abhishek225.spaces.msn.com/PersonalSpace.aspx

MshAnalyzer tool:https://www.karlprosser.com/coder/?cat=8

I can't share a lot of information with you about how PowerShell and Longhorn server will work together but as soon as I know I will post it onto this blog.

By the way there are two PowerShell sessions planned during the Dev & IT Pro Days 2007 - Bruce Payette will deliver them.

 

10 Reasons to look at Windows Longhorn Part 1: Server Management Improvements

The next blogpost I will talk about Internet Information Server 7.0 and what benefits the IT Professional will get out of this new version.

Technorati tags: Longhorn, Dev & IT Pro days, Bruce Payette, PowerShell

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2007
    Hi, Thanks for pointing that out it's indeed cd HKCU: without quotes, I will change that on the post.

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2007
    Maybe you should mentionned that it's not a new feature for Longhorn as this shell is already available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.  Then, why is this a reason to look at Longhorn if it's already available... ?  I guess they will integrate more cmdlet concerning Longhorn management but it's not mentionned in your blog if that's the case.

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2007
    Sylvain, That could indeed be the case but I don't have any details that I can share right now. But as soon as I can I will share details. Just wanted to make a point that PowerShell will be important in Longhorn.

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2007
    This week I was preparing for my TechNet evening session about longhorn server and I was looking at what

  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2007
    With Windows Vista we've improved the security of the platform dramatically, because Windows Vista and

  • Anonymous
    March 15, 2007
    When I talked about the server management improvements in the first part of this series I explained that

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2007
    poki co tylko trzy, ale w przyszlosci bedzie wiecej: Server Management Improvements PowerShell IIS7.o

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2007
    It has been quite a while now since I wrote part 8 of this series. I must admit I tried to start this

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2007
    Arlindo Alves the Belgian IT Pro Evangelist wrote a blogpost series about 10 Reasons you want to look