Weekly Shell: Do I need .NET, WMI, COM, and all that to use PowerShell? PowerShell seems, to many administrators, to offer a huge learning curve. Browse the various PowerShell related forums or the PowerShell portion of the blogosphere and you'll see numerous posts that rely on the .NET Framework being used from within PowerShell, posts that rely heavily on byzantine WMI classes, and so

What Stumps You in PowerShell? When you first sat down to use PowerShell and found yourself starting at the blue command-line window... what did you do? I'm trying hard to find out what it is that administrators get stumped on when they first start using the shell. With a GUI, you've got the ability to