The Linux operating system has long offered more power and flexibility to its administrators through shell scripting. Microsoft's Windows did not have this flexibility, due to the limited capabilities of the line orders.
To overcome this limitation, Microsoft introduced PowerShell to effectively automate tasks and manage settings. It is built with .NET Framework and provides full access to COM and WMI.
PowerShell is a tool for scripting and task automation on Windows systems. PowerShell has cmdlets by default, which perform predefined tasks.
There are hundreds of cmdlets for PowerShell available, designed to perform various administrative tasks.
1. stop-process
This will close the program dynamically tourFirefox if running.
Mandate: Stop-Process -Name Firefox
2. Get-Process
This will display all the processes currently running on the system in table format.
Command: Get-Process | Format-Table
3. Get-EventLog
It will display all the logs related to "Security" from the current system.
Mandate: Get-EventLog -Log “Security”
4. Export-CSV
It will display all "Security" related events in the security.csv file on drive E.
Mandate: Get-EventLog -Log “Security” | Export-Csv E: \ security.csv
5. Get-Service
It will display a list of all services in the current system and their status, in tabular form.
Command: Get-Service | Format-Table
6. Get-Help
It will display detailed usage information about the Format-Table cmdlet.
Command: Get-Help Format-Table
7. Get-CimInstance
This will get details about the operating system that is installed.
Command: Get-CimInstance CIM_OperatingSystem
8. Get-WmiObject
Lists all locals users in the current system.
Mandate: Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount -Filter "LocalAccount = 'True" "