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PowerShell

Objects, not plain text, pass between the commands of Microsoft's shell, which makes querying Active Directory, Exchange or Azure far less fragile than parsing output. Windows administrators and Azure engineers rely on it for any task repeated more than twice. It also runs on Linux and macOS, a fact many Unix administrators have not yet noticed.

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Where it is used

The topics that name this programming language, with the reason.

Fields: IT Support, Networking and Infrastructure

Courses for this tool

60 courses teach this tool. The first 6 are listed; details and the provider link are on each course page.

Last reviewed 26 September 2026 · Getting Digital