PowerShell Deep Dives

Part 1. PowerShell administration

Edited by Richard Siddaway

PowerShell is a tool for administrators enabling the automation of administrative processes. This first part of the book gives you an overview of the range of administrative tasks you can tackle and some superb examples of administering systems with PowerShell.

PowerShell remoting is fantastic for administering tens, hundreds, or thousands of remote machines. But sometimes, things go wrong. Chapter 1 will show you how to diagnose and correct problems with PowerShell remoting.

In PowerShell 1.0 we only had WMI for working with remote machines. PowerShell 3.0 introduces a new way to work with WMI on local and remote machines—the CIM cmdlets and CIM sessions, which are analogous to ...