Microsoft PowerShell

Microsoft PowerShell:

Microsoft PowerShell is power for everything. Microsoft PowerShell is a task based command line shell & scripting language and offers many things for you.

1. Its offers you the all equivalent command or task which UNIX commands does.  We can say Microsoft PowerShell is windows scripting language.
2. Special PowerShell commands are available for Visual Studio, IIS, and AppFabric caching, SQL Server…etc.
3. You can create the deployment scripts using Microsoft PowerShell and special PowerShell commands are available for this.
4. Please type get-command and press enter key on Windows PowerShell command prompt then it will give you all the command names and definition.
5. Please type get-help  “command name” and press enter key and will display the help for that command. For example,  get-help grep
6. You can use it for automated build process.
7. Special PowerShell commands are available for Network and DBA administrators.
8. You can use PowerShell for Workflow tasks.
9. Special PowerShell commands are available for Windows Azure.

Please try to use Microsoft PowerShell and you will say PowerShell is more powerful.

Please visit Microsoft site to know more about PowerShell and usage.

References:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978526.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30002

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj156055.aspx