In Windows Server 2019, we see in multiple places that administration via PowerShell is the recommended path for interacting with our servers. Because the management GUIs are now just shells running PowerShell scripts and the default installation option for Windows Server is Server Core, we can assume that headless, command-line oriented servers are going to be our servers of the future. Even though PowerShell has been at the core of our operating system functionality since Server 2012, until this point I believe that PowerShell has been viewed by most admins as simply an alternative way of managing servers. Yeah, I know it exists and that I should start using it, and the scripting looks pretty cool, but I can still do anything I want to with the old Command Prompt or my mouse button. That old mentality is quickly changing.
Now that we are experiencing the onset of new...
