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Chapter 1: What Is Windows PowerShell?

PowerShell 2.0 CPT3 is Service Pack 3, so when executing

C:\DBAScripts\CheckPowershellPreqs.bat

it will complain that Service Pack 3 is required.

Installing the Microsoft .NET Framework

Windows PowerShell integrates with the .NET Framework and provides a shell environment to per-

form administrative tasks. PowerShell exposes the .NET classes as built-in commands, and when these

commands are executed they produce one or more structured objects as output.

Download the .NET Framework from

http://download.microsoft.com

and install .NET Framework 2

or later. It is recommended that you use .NET 3.5, although all the code in this book works on .NET

Framework 2 and later. In Chapter 11, you will see that an SQL Server 2008 installation installs .NET 3.5

by default.

Installing Windows Remote Management

Another prerequisite is to install Windows Remote Management (WinRM). WinRM is required for Win-

dows PowerShell remoting and background jobs. You can download WinRM 2.0 CTP3 (also known as

Ws-Management) from

https://connect.microsoft.com/WSMAN/Downloads

for Windows Vista and

Windows Server 2008. The installation procedures of the executable

Windows6.0-KB950099-x86.msu

for

32-bit and

Windows6.0-KB950099-x64.msu

for 64-bit are shown in Figure 1-4 and Figure 1-5.

Figure 1-4

Figure 1-5