Installing Powershell is just the beginning. There are plenty of extra tools and add-ons that you can find to enhance your Powershell scripting.
Some of my favorites are -
- A helpful development tool
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- PrimalScript is a general purpose code editor that understands Powershell
- Powershell IDE A nice IDE focussed solely on running Powershell scripts. Currently free.
- PowerPad a neat Notepad like extension for the Poweshell command prompt. Free.
- Some Microsoft tools
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- ADSI Edit- allows you to look under the hood of Active Directory and explore the partitions and edit and create items.
- WMI Administrative Tools- This download contains CIM Studio, a fantastic tool for letting you explore WMI - it's a bit like ADSI edit for WMI. You can explore the schema, retrieve WMI objects, run their methods an
- d register for WMI events. If you are at all interested in WMI you must install this toolset.
- Powershell add-ons
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- Power Gadgets Gorgeous, easy to use data visulation components. Not cheap but worth every penny! Make sure you watch the demo.
- Other cool stuff