

You also get the added benefit that all of the scripts generated are visible right in the console – which helps build familiarity with the language. Using this GUI based tool it is easy to build Powershell scripts for use with Windows, OpsMgr, Exchange and more. What if you want to take advantage of the benefits of Powershell today, without the time investment of the associated learning curve? Enter the new PowerGUI tool from Quest software.

All of this to say – Powershell is very useful. It’s noteworthy that there are some things you can do with Powershell that can’t be done any other way – including in the UI. Many of the tools available for OpsMgr, including override explorer, are driven by Powershell. OpsMgr, in fact, offers several different Powershell additions to allow direct interaction with the OpsMgr environment. In PowerGUI, when you load any module that has a snippets subfolder as a child of the module base folder, those snippets will immediately become available in the PowerGUI Script Editor. Powershell is definitely worth the learning curve. Powershell is the new command shell introduced for use with Windows 2003 – and it is a very powerful scripting environment. If you have spent much time at all around OpsMgr you most certainly have heard of PowerShell. I still use PowerGUI for the creating custom powerpacks of none GUI scripts as it is an awesome product, the IDE is amazing.
