Updated: July 11, 2020 (February 23, 2009)
Charts & IllustrationsPowerShell-Enabled Server Products
Microsoft’s server products provide various levels of PowerShell support, including specialized commands (cmdlets), providers (which allow PowerShell to access a product’s unique data store), a snap-in to register commands and providers to PowerShell, and, in some cases, a command shell that hosts PowerShell from within the application.
In PowerShell 2.0, snap-ins are supported but are being replaced by modules (which do not require registration).
Actual support in the products runs the gamut, from Exchange Server and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, which provide a command shell, specialized commands, a provider, and a snap-in or module, to applications such as SharePoint Server, which supply only some specialized commands and a snap-in.
Windows 7 will include PowerShell 2.0 and use it for troubleshooting and management of features.
Some other software companies are also PowerShell-enabling their applications. This chart shows the Microsoft server applications and Windows features that are using PowerShell.
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