Introduction to Windows PowerShell

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Windows PowerShell is a very powerful scripting language used in task automation and configuration management of Microsoft Windows server environments and Microsoft server applications such as Exchange and Sharepoint. PowerShell provides full access to COM, WMI and the .NET Framework. PowerShell comprises of cmdlets (pronounced as command-lets) which are .NET classes implementing particular functions. Different Microsoft server applications expose their management functionality as cmdlets.

Amazon Web Services also provide a set of Powershell cmdlets to allow system administrators to manage its resources.