Chapter 15. PowerShell innovations
This chapter covers
- PowerShell jobs
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Active Directory provider
- PowerShell Hyper-V library
This chapter is a collection of topics that represent leading-edge technologies and recent innovations in the PowerShell world. Some are still be in beta. The topics are those we need to consider to round out our PowerShell knowledge and to position us for the future. PowerShell is evolving internally and in the breadth and depth of applications that have PowerShell support. We need to be aware of these changes to ensure we stay on top of automating our administration tasks.
The chapter starts with an examination of how we can use PowerShell jobs to make ourselves more productive...without doing any more work. We can use background jobs to run PowerShell asynchronously, meaning we can start a set of jobs, go do other things, and come to our results.
Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 install PowerShell v2 by default. A huge amount of extra PowerShell functionality is available between v2 and Windows 2008 R2. We’ve seen a lot of the PowerShell v2 functionality in various chapters of the book. In this chapter, we’ll briefly peek at Windows 2008 R2 and some of the good PowerShell things that it brings to us.