For a good view of what’s new in 2 check out Joel “jaykul” Bennett’s excellent slide deck here

To add to the mammoth PowerShell support included in Windows 7, the Windows 7 Resource Kit also includes a PowerShell Pack which adds 10 modules to help supercharge your Windows PowerShell scripting:

WPK - Create rich user interfaces quick and easily from Windows PowerShell. Think HTA, but easy. Over 600 scripts to help you build quick user interfaces
TaskScheduler - List scheduled tasks, create or delete tasks
FileSystem - Monitor files and folders, check for duplicate files, and check disk space
IsePack – Supercharge your scripting in the Integrated Scripting Environment with over 35 shortcuts
DotNet – Explore loaded types, find commands that can work with a type, and explore how you can use PowerShell, DotNet and COM together
PSImageTools - Convert, rotate, scale, and crop images and get image metadata
PSRSS – Harness the FeedStore from PowerShell
PSSystemTools – Get Operating System or Hardware Information
PSUserTools – Get the users on a system, check for elevation, and start-processaadministrator
PSCodeGen -Generates PowerShell scripts, C# code, and P/Invoke

This is all well and good, but what about the other Microsoft Operating Systems? Well, now Microsoft have released the Windows Management Framework, which includes PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0 and BITS 4.0 providing the same rich experience of PowerShell 2.0 for Vista, Server 2003 & 2008 and Windows XP.

Looks to me like Microsoft just super-sized my PowerShell options :-)

Windows 7 – does Windows finally have some WOW factor?

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