Part 4. Advanced PowerShell

One of PowerShell’s greatest strengths is its ability to connect to other technologies, such as WMI, CIM, COM, .NET, and a host of other acronyms. In part 4, we’ll briefly look at each of these and demonstrate how PowerShell can utilize them. We’ll provide one caution: We don’t dive as deeply into these as we have the other topics in this book. That’s because they are external technologies. Although accessed from within PowerShell, they can also be used from a variety of other places, and each could quite easily consume an entire book (and in some cases, others have already written those books—which we’ll mention as appropriate within the chapters). Our focus in these chapters will be to look at how Power-Shell can use these technologies, give you a starting place for doing so, and then provide you with some direction for further independent exploration.