PowerShell Version 3 - Intellisense

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Windows PowerShell 3.0 is now available to download for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and for Windows Server 2008. Windows PowerShell 3.0 comes in the Management Framework 3.0. You can download Windows PowerShell 3.0 from the Microsoft Download Center. 

Not going into deep of powershell V3 features, the one most I like initially was intellisense.  Also you can run a single cmdlet with selecting its parameters in the GUI to the right of the powershell ISE window.

Check out the pics. … More to come later posts



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