Windows PowerShell 3.0

We haven’t gotten into the ins and outs of PowerShell in this book, because it’s simply too vast a subject area and requires a book of its own. While I have mentioned that a large number of administrators in small to midsize organizations will likely use the GUI for many management tasks, it pays to get familiar with PowerShell, particularly because of its new capabilities for management.

PowerShell v3.0 is the version included with Server 2012. A great place for PowerShell newbies to get started is with PowerShell’s IntelliSense. This feature will help you learn and create the proper PowerShell. As you type in a PowerShell command, you’ll see a list of possible syntaxes to go with the command.