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WHAT IS POWERSHELL, AND WHY DO YOU NEED IT?
▶ Do you need to collect all the critical and error events from the event logs of
all your servers?
FIGURE 1.1 This is PowerShell.
FIGURE 1.2 This is PowerShell too.
PowerShell can do that.
Once you learn the language, you should be able to perform these tasks faster than
you have in the past.
By integrating PowerShell scripts into your environment, you can automate many
of the time-consuming, monotonous tasks required of system administrators. If
you look at tasks such as some of the previous examples that gather and parse large
amounts of information, it may take a long time to do them manually.  ese types
of tasks are perfect candidates for PowerShell scripting.
PowerShell includes numerous system administration utilities, consistent syntax and
naming conventions, and improved navigation for common management data, such
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