General beginner question

Hello!

I`ve been watching Jeffrey Snover`s great webcast from TechEd about
PowerShell, and are greatly impressed!

My question is quite simple:
Is the PowerShell mostly created for administrative tasks for
administrators, or is it also supposed to be a client-side scripting-tool for
i.e. logon-scripts?

PowerShell is an administrative tool. If you look at the way the admin tools
for Exchange 2007, MOM 2007 etc are being layered on top of PowerShell its
primary function is to provide a great command line interface for
administration.

It can be used for client side tasks like login scripts but because you need
to pass the the path to powershell & the script to run it isn't quite as easy
as using a VBScript type login script.

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Richard Siddaway
Please note that all scripts are supplied "as is" and with no warranty
Blog: http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/
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"jering" wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I`ve been watching Jeffrey Snover`s great webcast from TechEd about
> PowerShell, and are greatly impressed!
>
> My question is quite simple:
> Is the PowerShell mostly created for administrative tasks for
> administrators, or is it also supposed to be a client-side scripting-tool for
> i.e. logon-scripts?

Thanks for the reply, then I got it clear.


"RichS" wrote:

> PowerShell is an administrative tool. If you look at the way the admin tools
> for Exchange 2007, MOM 2007 etc are being layered on top of PowerShell its
> primary function is to provide a great command line interface for
> administration.
>
> It can be used for client side tasks like login scripts but because you need
> to pass the the path to powershell & the script to run it isn't quite as easy
> as using a VBScript type login script.
>
> --
> Richard Siddaway
> Please note that all scripts are supplied "as is" and with no warranty
> Blog: http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/
> PowerShell User Group: http://www.get-psuguk.org.uk
>
>
> "jering" wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I`ve been watching Jeffrey Snover`s great webcast from TechEd about
> > PowerShell, and are greatly impressed!
> >
> > My question is quite simple:
> > Is the PowerShell mostly created for administrative tasks for
> > administrators, or is it also supposed to be a client-side scripting-tool for
> > i.e. logon-scripts?