PowerShell
Shell under Microsoft
SUA - Bash
Enable features
You must have Windows7 pro of Windows server 2008/2008R2, and enable the feature "Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications"
After this install the base package from microsoft. and next update and add the complet SUA environment at suacommunity web site
Now you you a complete POSIX Env, inside Windows operating system.
Powershell 1
Better than dos command and than cmd.exe.
powerfull but not enought, it's depracated since powershell is in version 2.
Powershell 1 is like a draft, the version 2 is very much interesting.
Powershell 2
A very interesting shell. Object oriented scripting language (like ruby, perl,..), full acces to COM and WMI object, and much more, syntax is like DOT.net.
You can/must use this shell, it s simpler and better than bat/cmd scripting, hard to learn for the begening but so powerfull. Powershell is like ssh for miscrosoft.
Powershell command
Begening
The technet doc is your best friend for the begenning,
Some Commands
get the version of powershell
Name : ConsoleHostVersion : 2.0InstanceId : XXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXXUI :System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHostUserInterfaceCurrentCulture : fr-FRCurrentUICulture : en-USPrivateData : Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost+ConsoleColorProxyIsRunspacePushed : FalseRunspace : System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalRunspaceAnd remotly
enter-pssession -ComputerName Host1[Host1]: PS C:\Users\administrator\Documents> get-hostName : ServerRemoteHostVersion : 1.0.0.0InstanceId : XXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXXUI : System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHostUserInterfaceCurrentCulture : fr-FRCurrentUICulture : en-USPrivateData :IsRunspacePushed :Runspace :For enabling the remote command shell execution you must conneect for the 1st time on the server Host 1 and setup the permission of remote exec and powershel scripting if you want to execute some scripts
Set-ExecutionPolicy -Force unrestrictedEnable-PSRemoting -ForceSet-WSManQuickConfig