Introduction

In today's cloud world, it's very important to work more effectively and to be able to automate processes to act more like a service provider. In daily administration, tasks such as creating a new virtual machine or changing their settings, can take time and resources that could be used in other tasks. With Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell together, you can do almost everything using automated tasks, commandlets, and scripts to save time, thus making them your allies in cutting manual processes and costs. However, people think that scripts and command lines are complex and difficult to be adopted.

PowerShell is necessary for the IT professional today. You should invest in learning it to advance in your career, as more and more Microsoft products will be managed by PowerShell in the future. PowerShell is here to stay and is your friend who will help you to achieve automation in your environment.

The main idea of this recipe is to show how easy and user-friendly PowerShell Version...