In this how-to guide, I'll outline the basic PowerShell cmdlets I believe everyone should know. If you're a beginner, these commands will be new to you. If you're a tech-savvy user, you may learn ...

Luckily, most of the features in Table 2.1 are native to the cmd command prompt, which makes PowerShell adoption easier for administrators already familiar with the Windows command line.

Get-Basics PowerShell uses a consistent syntax for all of its commands — in fact, PowerShell commands are actually called cmdlets, because they’re much more than simple DOS-style actions.

Figure 2. PowerShell can display basic operating system information. Incidentally, the Get-CimInstance cmdlet can display far more operating system information than what we are using here.

A module is really nothing more than a PowerShell script with a .psm1 file extension, although they can include binary code, typically delivered in a dll file. In today's lesson I want to give you ...

AWS EC2 This tells PowerShell that the command isn't intended to be executed against the local Windows OS, but rather against the AWS cloud, and that whatever comes next is to be directed at the EC2 ...