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Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity. Using a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 130 standard command line tools, and consistent syntax and utilities, Windows PowerShell allows IT Professionals to more easily control system administration and accelerate automation. Windows PowerShell is easy to adopt, learn, and use, because it works with your existing IT infrastructure and existing script investments, and because it runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Exchange Server 2007, System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Data Protection Manager V2, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager leverage Windows PowerShell to improve efficiency and productivity.

Get PowerShell...
Get the latest released version of PowerShell V1: Windows PowerShell 1.0
Get the released version of PowerShell V2: download Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Get the latest CTP (CTP3) for PowerShell V2 for downlevel systems (Server 2008/Server 2003/XP): https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsmanagement/Downloads




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News
Support
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Docs
Books
Training
How Do I?
Tools and Utilities
PowerShell Scripts
Other Resources

Windows PowerShell News¶

December 19, 2008: PowerShell CTP3 Release News

Live Support¶

• The myITforum Windows PowerShell Email Discussion List
  

• The myITforum Windows PowerShell Web-based Support forum (moderated by Marty List, MVP)
  

Downloads¶

• Windows PowerShell 1.0
  

• Windows PowerShell 1.0 Documentation Pack
  

• PowerShell Community Extensions - PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) is aimed at providing a widely useful set of additional cmdlets, providers, aliases, filters, functions and scripts for Windows PowerShell that members of the community have expressed interest in.
  

• The myITforum.com Windows PowerShell Script Repository
  

• Windows PowerShell Virtual Machine Manager Cmdlet Reference
  

• Windows PowerShell Graphical Help File (Version 2.0)
  

• Free PowerShell PowerPad From PowerLocker
  

• Microsoft PowerShell Alias Map - This Excel Spreadsheet lists all of the available PowerShell Aliases in an Excel Spreadsheet for your reference.
  

Documentation¶

• Windows PowerShell Quick Reference Guide
  

• PowerShell Cheat Sheet.XPS
  

• Windows PowerShell SDK
  

• Windows PowerShell 1.0 Documentation Pack
  

• The basic set of object adapters available in PowerShell
  

• The basic arithmetic operators in PowerShell
  

• The assignment operators of PowerShell
  

• Windows PowerShell Owner's Manual
  

• Windows PowerShell Graphical Help File
  

• PowerGadgets In Action
  

• PowerShell environment provider - $env
  

• Operations Manager 2007 PowerShell CmdLet’s
  

• PowerShell Aliases
  

• Cmdlets to record a PowerShell session
  

• PowerShell Class Library Namespaces
  

• Installing PowerShell on Windows 2008 in Server Core mode
  

• Running SQL Server PowerShell
  
  
  
  
  
  ===Books===
  

• PowerShell in Practice by Richard Siddaway
  
  
• Windows PowerShell in Action by Bruce Payette
  
  
• Microsoft Windows PowerShell: TFM by Don Jones
  
  
• Microsoft Windows Powershell Programming by Jerry Lee Ford Jr.
  
  
• Microsoft Windows PowerShell(TM) Step By StepBy Ed Wilson
  
  
• Pro Windows PowerShell (Pro) By Hristo Deshev
  
  
• Windows(R) PowerShell Unleashed By Tyson Kopczynski
  
  
  
  
  
  ===Training===
  

• Windows PowerShell classroom training by DesktopEngineer
  
  
• PowerShell 101 - Self-paced training from ScriptingAnswers.com and Windows PowerShell MVP, Don Jones. Information about classroom training is also on the site.
  
  
• Introduction to Windows PowerShell Virtual Lab
  
  
• Writing Scripts with Windows PowerShell
  
  
• Winstructor.Com's Windows PowerShell Video Training
  

• Learn and Master Windows PowerShell with Quest Software’s PowerGUI
  

• Using Windows PowerShell to manage Windows Server 2008 Active Directory and Read-Only Domain Controllers
  

• Automating Windows Server 2008 Administration with Windows PowerShell - A Microsoft Learning product available at any CPLS.
  

How do I ?...¶

• Set the Windows PowerShell Execution Policy via the registry
  
  
• View and Change the Windows PowerShell Execution Policy
  
  
• Calculate percentages with scripts
  
  
• Uninstall Windows PowerShell 1.0
  
  
• Convert WMI time to system datetime
  

• Surf the web using PowerShell
  

• Work with the PowerShell Alias
  

• Understand Profiles
  

• Set ANY AD attribute with PowerShell
  

• View the commands in the history buffer
  

• Get around in the PowerShell Command Console
  

• Convert decimal numbers to hexadecimal values
  

• Inventory to see if PowerShell is installed and if so, which version
  

• Monitor a Web Site Using Windows PowerShell
  

• Find hidden files/folders using PowerShell
  

• Enter password as secure string
  

• Pull Dell Server Info from WMI with Powershell
  

• Run Windows PowerShell Scripts Against Multiple Computers
  

• Use PowerShell to Search Files
  

• Copy and Paste a PowerShell Script
  

• Use SCOM 2007 Command Shell to Configure Gateway Server Failover to Multiple Management Servers
  

• Retrieve PowerShell Version Information
  

• List Startup Commands
  

• Resolve OpsMgr 2007 Alerts From The Command Shell
  

• Export a .csv file
  

• Re-Unite PowerShell Consoles on your Computer
  

• Obtain List of Zero Sized files
  

• Get a Process Owner
  

• Change Site code on an SMS 2003 client
  

• Change Site code on an SMS 2003 client
  

• PowerShell: How do I trigger SMS 2003 Inventory Actions?
  

• PowerShell: WMI WQL Queries – made easy for remote WMI especially for SMS 2003 or ConfigMgr 2007
  

• PowerShell: How do I connect to SMS 2003 and perform Client Actions?
  

• Compare two ConfigMgr Distribution Points Using PowerShell?
  

• Repair the ConfigMgr 2007 client?
  

• Use PowerShell to do a mass text replace
  

• Use PowerShell To Prompt For Console Credentials
  

• PowerShell: How do I trigger SMS 2003 Inventory Actions?
  

Tools and Utilities¶

• PowerShell Analyzer - Powershell Analyzer is a rich interactive environment for Windows Powershell.
  

• PowerShellIDE - Is a graphical user interface that helps explore and exploit the vast power available with PowerShell. It contains a debugger, lets you step through PowerShell scripts, explore variables as you run your scripts and also supports many Intellisense-like functions.
  

• PowerShell WMI Explorer - The WMI Explorer will provide help information for the WMI classes and about methods and properties available, also it will generate Template PowerShell scripts for callng WMI methods, that can be used as base to create PowerShell scripts calling WMI methods.
  

• PowerShell PowerGUI - PowerGUI is an extensible graphical administrative console for managing systems based on Windows PowerShell. These include Windows OS (XP, 2003, Vista), Exchange 2007, Operations Manager 2007 and other new systems from Microsoft. The tool allows to use the rich capabilities of Windows PowerShell in a familiar and intuitive GUI console.
  

• PowerShell Community Extensions - PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) is aimed at providing a widely useful set of additional cmdlets, providers, aliases, filters, functions and scripts for Windows PowerShell that members of the community have expressed interest in.
  

• SAPIEN PowerShell Extensions (PshX-SAPIEN) - A collection of useful cmdlets to add into Windows PowerShell, such as logon script cmdlets for checking group membership, memory-inventory cmdlets, database cmdlets, and more. Instructions are included in the downloadable ZIP file.
  

• PowerShell Help Tool - Displays detailed help for all PowerShell cmdlets - a convenient, on-screen reference while working in PowerShell, or when developing scripts.
  

• PowerTab
  

• JAMS - An enterprise grade task scheduler which includes PowerShell cmdlets for management and a PowerShell Provider which exposes the scheduled tasks and other definitions. Plus, JAMS can execute PowerShell scripts.
  

• UltraEdit Word file For PowerShell
  

• PoshConsole - PoshConsole is a more modern PowerShell Console. We aim to have a complete open source implementation of the PSHostUserInterface and PSRawHostUserInterface written in WPF and including a custom ConsoleTextBox control which could be reused for other purposes.
  

• Powershell Plus - Powershell Plus extends the windows Console adding functionality that has long been amiss in windows. Additionally its a fully featured Powershell Host including an editor and debugger.
  

• ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory
  

• PowerShell Script Editors
  

• PowerShellASP - PowerShellASP is an ASP-like template language for Web Applications; templates contain a mixture of markup (HTML, XML or whatever you want to generate) and inline PowerShell code. At runtime, templates/pages are fully translated to PowerShell code and executed as a single unit inside a PowerShell pipeline, with the results sent to the client browser.
  

• Specops Command - With Specops Command, we take PowerShell scripting to every desktop and server in your network as well as making PowerShell scripting even more powerful and easier to manage. We give you the potential to do ANYTHING you can do with Windows PowerShell and do it on each computer in your entire network, just with a couple of mouse clicks. And even better, if you know how to write PowerShell scripts and cmdlets, you can extend Specops Command yourself!
  

• PowerShell management Library for Hyper-V - A project to provide a PowerShell management library for Hyper-V.
  

• SQL Server PowerShell Extensions - The primary goal of SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) is to provide intuitive functions around the SMO objects which are backward compatible with SQL 2000. A secondary goal is to provide an application which reports flatten/effective security settings for logins, users, roles, and permissions.
  

• PowerShell SharePoint Provider - A full PowerShell provider for exposing SharePoint 2003 version 2007 coming as a filesystem. Administer your SharePoint installation with familiar copy/move/rename/delete and new-item metaphors.
  

• Windows Automation Snapin for PowerShell - WASP is a PowerShell snapin for Windows Automation tasks like selecting windows and controls and sending mouse and keyboard events.
  

• PowerShell Remoting - PowerShell Remoting is a light-weighted server-client application which allow you securely connect to remote PowerShell host and run script interactively.
  

• PowerShell Windows Mobile Provider - Explore and manipulate your mobile device with Windows PowerShell. Supports PocketPC and SmartPhone devices; WM2002, 2003, 2003SE, 5, 6 and 6.1.
  

• PowerShell Eventing Library - Trap and respond to synchronous & asynchronous .NET, COM and WMI events within your powershell scripts with this easy to use suite of cmdlets.
  

• Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions - Exposes Windows Installer functionality to PowerShell, providing means to query installed product and patch information and to query views on packages.
  

Scripts¶

• PowerShell Script Blog | Thomas Lee's PowerShell Scripts blog - nothing but scripts!
  

• PowerShell Script library archive from PowerShell Script Blog| Over 150 PowerShell samples for you to use.
  

• The myITforum.com Windows PowerShell Script Repository
  

• myITforum's Scripting Download Section
  

• PowerShell Code Repository
  

• PowerShell.Com's Script Library
  

• Windows PowerShell Scripts in the TechNet Scripting Center
  

Related Resources¶

• The myITforum Windows PowerShell Email Discussion List
  

• The myITforum Windows PowerShell Web-based Support forum (moderated by Marty List, MVP)
  

• myITforum's Windows PowerShell Technical Articles
  

• Windows PowerShell in the myITforum Blogs
  

• myITforum's Windows PowerShell Downloads Section
  

• The myITforum Code Repository
  

• Microsoft's Windows PowerShell page
  

• Microsoft's Windows PowerShell FAQ
  

• Microsoft's Windows PowerShell Team blog
  

• Microsoft's PowerShell Discussion Group
  

• PowerShell Answers.com
  

• PowerShell Community.org