What is PowerShell? PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework built by Microsoft. Unlike traditional command-line interfaces, PowerShell works with objects rather than plain text — meaning you can pipe structured data between commands, filter it, sort it, and manipulate it in ways that batch scripting simply can’t match.It was built from the ground up for system administrators and engineers who need to manage infrastructure at scale — from a single server to thousands of machines. Why PowerShell Matters The real power of PowerShell isn’t running one-off commands — it’s automation. Tasks that would take hours of manual clicking through GUIs can be reduced to a script that…