{"id":6701,"date":"2008-02-07T13:25:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T13:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2008\/02\/07\/10-cool-things-you-can-do-with-windows-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:16:13","slug":"10-cool-things-you-can-do-with-windows-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/10-cool-things-you-can-do-with-windows-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Cool things you can do with Windows PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Jody Gilberts TechRepublic&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.techrepublic.com.com\/10things\/?p=302\">HERE<\/a>.&#160; It is a surprisingly eclectic list.&#160; It shows that she&#8217;s been kicking the tires.&#160; I can wait to see what else she comes up with.<\/p>\n<p>I especially liked her caveat:<\/p>\n<h5><em>Note: Be careful, very careful<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><em>Yes, this is a tool worthy of the name. PowerShell can easily cause massive configuration changes, positive or negative &#8212; so protect yourself and establish a test environment for your learning experiences. Also consider using the &#8220;-confirm&#8221; parameter to test configurations before execution for certain commands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spider-Man\">Peter Parker<\/a> learned, &quot;With great power, comes great responsibility&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]   <br \/>Windows Management Partner Architect    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&#160;&#160;&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Jody Gilberts TechRepublic&#8217;s article HERE.&#160; It is a surprisingly eclectic list.&#160; It shows that she&#8217;s been kicking the tires.&#160; I can wait to see what else she comes up with. I especially liked her caveat: Note: Be careful, very careful Yes, this is a tool worthy of the name. PowerShell can easily cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Check out Jody Gilberts TechRepublic&#8217;s article HERE.&#160; It is a surprisingly eclectic list.&#160; It shows that she&#8217;s been kicking the tires.&#160; I can wait to see what else she comes up with. I especially liked her caveat: Note: Be careful, very careful Yes, this is a tool worthy of the name. PowerShell can easily cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}