Configuring PowerShell for Server Administration
Like so many others, I’ve recently been learning just how powerful and useful Microsoft’s PowerShell can be. One of its best attributes is how extensible it is. There are a ton of 3rd party plugins and modules that allow you do to amazing things, very easily. As I use the tool more and more, I’ve found a core set of extensions that are vital for my daily work. Besides that, there’s some client side configuration that I do in order to automatically load those modules and snapins when I start PowerShell. Admittedly, it does make the PowerShell window take a little bit longer to open, but when I’m using those tools 90%+ of the time, I figure that it’s better to just grab them by default. So, here is how I like to configure my administrative workstation’s PowerShell. The first thing that I do is upgrade to PowerShell 3.0. Microsoft has PowerShell 3.0 Installation Instructions available; make sure that you follow them. If you don’t have the ...