PowerShell@HungYuWu

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/14/it-forum-day-one-windows-vista-and-windows-powershell.aspx

• 12 Cool Features of Windows PowerShell
1. Built-in Cmdlets (pronounced "commandlets") for Managing Windows
2. The power of wildcards and working objects
3. Whatif you could test your commands before committing to them
• PS> stop-service w3* -whatif
4. Take a transcript
• PS> Start-Transcript -Path c:\demo\dfoshow.txt
  PS> Stop-Transcript
5. Make Windows talk from the command line
• PS> $spVoice = new-object -com "SAPI.spvoice"
  PS> $spVoice.Speak("Windows Vista and PowerShell")
6. Using Windows PowerShell to access applications such as Windows Media Player 11
• PS> $band = "The Posies"
  PS> $player = New-object -com wmplayer.ocx
  PS> $playlist = $player.mediacollection.getbyauthor($band)
  PS> $player.openPlayer($playlist.item(0).sourceurl)
7. Windows PowerShell as a command line storage calculator
8. Using PowerShell as a calendar calculator
• PS> ([DateTime]"1/1/2007" -[datetime]::now).days
9. How many files of type X do I have on my machine?
• PS> dir -include *.vbs, *.ps1, *.bat -recurse | group-object extension -noelement
10. Collecting Windows System Assessment Tool data from the command line
• Windows System Assessment Tool (WSAT)
• PowerGadgets
11. Configuring User Account Control
• Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) helps improve security by requiring that all programs run in standard user mode by default, rather than with administrator privileges
• PS> set-itemproperty -path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -name ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin -value 0
12. Managing BitLocker with PowerShell
• Vista's BitLocker feature helps prevents data loss via encryption
• PS > $drives = get-wmiobject -namespace root\CIMv2\Security\MicrosoftVolumeEncryption -class Win32_EncryptableVolume
  
  PS> $drives | format-table DriveLetter, PersistentVolumeID -autosize
  PS> $BitLockDrive = $drives[0]
  PS> $BitLockDrive.GetProtectionStatus()
  PS> $BitLockDrive.DisableKeyProtectors()
  PS> $BitLockDrive.EnableKeyProtectors()