PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here’s a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you started.
Microsoft PowerShell, generally referred to as Windows PowerShell, offers a handy way to automate various chores whether you’re working on a Windows Server or a Windows workstation.
System administrators would do well to learn this scripting language as a skill with which to automate tasks – particularly repetitive tasks – and develop advanced administrative tasks to help lighten their workloads and execute operations via predictable, proven commands. These commands can be run on local systems or remote ones using the PowerShell remoting function, for example, to make updates to the Windows registry on multiple systems.