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What is Microsoft PowerShell?
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia
podcast.
According to the official Microsoft documentation, PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework. PowerShell runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
PowerShell is an object-oriented automation engine and scripting language with an interactive command-line shell developed by Microsoft. It aims to help users configure systems and automate administrative tasks. It is quite a mature tool and has a proven as well as established record as an automation tool for users both within and outside the IT function. Originally, PowerShell was offered as a proprietary software however, now PowerShell is available on all Windows systems by default. In 2016, Microsoft open-sourced PowerShell and made it available both on MacOS as well as Linux systems.
So, what does PowerShell do?
PowerShell was designed to help users with automating their tasks. For instance, if you are looking to automate your batch processing, PowerShell is the tool to help you with this. If you want to create system management tools for your commonly implemented processes, then PowerShell is the tool for you.
Apart from this, PowerShell also serves as a replacement for Microsoft’s Command Prompt which goes back to the times of MS-DOS. PowerShell became the default command-line interface for Windows 10 with the build 14791, which is also how most of us today become acquainted with the PowerShell technology. With that, we can say that PowerShell is a modern command shell that includes the best features of many popular shells, however, unlike a lot of other shells which would only accept and return texts, PowerShell will accept and return .Net objects, making it so much more powerful and versatile compared to other shells.
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By CognixiaHello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia
podcast.
According to the official Microsoft documentation, PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework. PowerShell runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
PowerShell is an object-oriented automation engine and scripting language with an interactive command-line shell developed by Microsoft. It aims to help users configure systems and automate administrative tasks. It is quite a mature tool and has a proven as well as established record as an automation tool for users both within and outside the IT function. Originally, PowerShell was offered as a proprietary software however, now PowerShell is available on all Windows systems by default. In 2016, Microsoft open-sourced PowerShell and made it available both on MacOS as well as Linux systems.
So, what does PowerShell do?
PowerShell was designed to help users with automating their tasks. For instance, if you are looking to automate your batch processing, PowerShell is the tool to help you with this. If you want to create system management tools for your commonly implemented processes, then PowerShell is the tool for you.
Apart from this, PowerShell also serves as a replacement for Microsoft’s Command Prompt which goes back to the times of MS-DOS. PowerShell became the default command-line interface for Windows 10 with the build 14791, which is also how most of us today become acquainted with the PowerShell technology. With that, we can say that PowerShell is a modern command shell that includes the best features of many popular shells, however, unlike a lot of other shells which would only accept and return texts, PowerShell will accept and return .Net objects, making it so much more powerful and versatile compared to other shells.