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PowerShell is Microsoft’s .NET-based command line scripting and automation framework. Using cmdlets you can administer both the local machine and remote machines by accessing COM and WMI objects. Many other applications support the PowerShell API, such as Exchange Server and SQL Server.<\/p>\n
Check out the product website<\/a><\/p>\n Rating: 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","brand":{"@type":"Brand","name":"Microsoft Corporation"},"aggregateRating":{"@type":"AggregateRating","ratingValue":4.73722627737226,"bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1","ratingCount":137,"reviewCount":137},"reviews":[{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" Pure awesome is what powershell is, I’ve recently began learning it to modify Exchange 2010 and cannot believe all the clicking I used to do. It makes life so much better!<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2013-10-31T13:51:58.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"duffney","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/duffney"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" Everything you need to be dangerous! Powershell lets you perform everything from basic to complex tasks. Powershell is an essential tool for O365 administration if you want to perform many functions that can’t be accessed from the O365 Admin Console. It’s also a huge time saver if you need to make changes on a large scale.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2016-04-20T17:13:27.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"pauljones19","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/pauljones19"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" I never really understood VBscripting to be really strong in it but Powershell for me is much easier to digest and more fun to use. As an IT Admin, there’s SO MUCH YOU CAN DO that will make your job easier that you are doing yourself a disservice if you aren’t using Powershell yet. Microsoft has and continues to invest heavily in Powershell and there’s plenty of documentation and help out there as well as good training available. If you haven’t tried it yet, do it now.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2014-02-12T15:21:54.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Little-Green-Man","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Little-Green-Man"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" Learning PowerShell has been very useful in my career. I’ve automated several tasks and gained a deeper knowledge for the environment I dove into. PoSH is amazing and worth learning for any Windows SysAdmin.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2014-11-28T15:25:01.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"superbrandon","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/superbrandon"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" Hideous. I do my very best to avoid it, it is a step backwards.<\/p>\n 1 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"1","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2014-02-18T16:35:38.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"librarian","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/librarian"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" Powershell is the way of the future when it comes to managing Microsoft servers. Exchange 2010 introduced the Exchange Management Shell, which is all Powershell scripting. For the server admin, Powershell is something you cannot afford to not know at least to some extent because it will really help automate processes.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2013-09-06T02:02:18.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"NetworkNerd","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/NetworkNerd"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" I love the fact you can do almost<\/em> anything with Powershell. Perfect for scripting general administration tasks and now PowerShell v3 is even more powerful! Great stuff.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2013-09-10T17:20:51.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"matthewpeacock","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/matthewpeacock"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" This is one of the greatest things Microsoft has ever developed, and I’m not sure its even close. If you haven’t looked into powershell and do ANYTHING IT related with Windows, you have no idea what you’re missing out on!<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2016-01-26T21:50:03.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"jason-merrifield","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/jason-merrifield"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" It’s not just really powerful interaction it’s interaction at scale and perfect for automation. Could not live without it.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2014-04-11T12:13:35.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"pbourne","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/pbourne"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" I like powershell, you can do a lot but I’ve really found some right bug bears with it - such as with the set-acl commands for setting ACLs and audits. Eish what a pain, but everything else has been brilliant and is much more user friendly than VBS.<\/p>\n 4 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"4","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2016-01-22T13:12:29.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"techelp","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/techelp"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" What an awesome tool. I used to think the command line was powerful, with the ability to call other languages and pull data from almost anything - what else would you look for in a CLI?<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2016-03-03T08:22:24.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"lwbm","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/lwbm"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" Powerfull scripting tool which should enable the automation of daily tasks along with a whole range of other features to help keep things running smoothly<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2016-10-28T10:22:17.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Brony-Overlord","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Brony-Overlord"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" A great tool for management of Office 365 and scripting. It is pretty easy to learn and it can really help you save time and complete complex, manual tasks automatically. PowerShell should be something that everybody wants to learn in order to make their job easier and more efficient.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2014-08-19T18:38:56.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"erikosterud","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/erikosterud"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" PowerShell is only hated by people who don’t use it. I used to be one of those folks, but once I started getting serious about it, the extensibility and flexibility is really unmatched.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2015-03-30T23:09:27.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"davidg","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/davidg"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" PowerShell is an amazingly versatile scripting language. I am so glad as a windows server admin that I have learned PowerShell scripting. It has saved so much time during the day. I have scripted anything from server health checks to daily schedules to be performed. It is overall and awesome language. Any windows admin must learn this to make their life easier with automation.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2014-03-18T05:35:21.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"chamele0n","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/chamele0n"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" Great product. For those struggling to learn I would highly suggest the Microsoft Virtual Academy course for learning the syntax and what is possible. I have just started to sink my teeth into Powershell (been about 2 weeks now) and it seems that it will make my job a lot easier. I have tried v2 a little and am mostly working in v3 since the Tab completion is highly improved. It does have a little bit of a learning curve, but you’d be doing yourself a disservice to give up on it easily. There are many resources out there for learning, so give it a shot.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2014-04-07T17:47:19.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"nerdyface","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/nerdyface"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" Admittedly, I was scared of PowerShell when I first heard about it. It took me a good while to get used to using command prompt! 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2015-03-03T08:59:13.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"ashleylewis","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/ashleylewis"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" As Don Jones said, if you’re a Windows IT Professional, you can either learn PowerShell, or learn to say “Do you want fries with that?”. That being said, this shell is amazing, and it keeps getting better all the time. With Server 2012, PowerShell is an absolute MUST, and you can administer every aspect of that system with it.<\/p>\n You can’t beat the power and ease of a scripting language that takes full advantage of objective programming; it takes a little getting used to the fact that what’s passing on the pipeline isn’t the same text you see in output but unformatted objects, but once you do, it is a breeze to pipe and manipulate data in just about any way you can think to do.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2014-04-25T22:04:06.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"laurelraven","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/laurelraven"}},{"@context":"http://schema.org/","@type":"Review","reviewBody":" Transition from command prompt to power shell was not easy but it becomes a great tool after I get used it.<\/p>\n 5 out of 5 stars<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5","bestRating":"5","worstRating":"1"},"datePublished":"2016-12-16T09:55:42.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"syedali","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/syedali"}}],"image":"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/3/5/2/35278d1fca9e9bef493a3ed928ff408b0a1457bf.png"}
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\nOK, I understand that powershell is there to allow the automation and scripting of management tasks that would be impossible with a GUI but why on earth have MS kept the same clunky mark,copy,paste system that was used on the old cmd shell, surely powershell could be made to understand a right click…<\/p>\n<\/a>Overall Rating<\/h4>\n
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\nHowever, After just a few days of using PowerShell, I quickly adapted to it and it’s simplified command scheme and to be honest…I love it!<\/p>\n<\/a>Overall Rating<\/h4>\n
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