Why use PowerShell?

It is both a scripting language and a command-line Shell.
It can interact with a different number of technologies.
Windows PowerShell allows complete access to all the types in the .NET framework.

PowerShell is object-based.
Many interfaces of GUI that Microsoft designed for its various products are front end interfaces to PowerShell.
It is more secure than running VBScript or other scripting languages.
It allows performing repetitive tasks more efficiently by combining multiple commands and by writing scripts. Suppose, a system administrator wants to create hundreds of active directory users, he can achieve this with the help of only some PowerShell cmdlets placed in a script.
Many complex and time-consuming configurations and tasks can be done in a second with simple cmdlets of PowerShell.

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