In this chapter we learned that the new features within the latest version of PowerShell, had greatly extended and simplified the day to day tasks of an administrator. The scheduled jobs feature made it much easier to setup repeatable tasks so that less time is spent having to repeat the automation. It instead automated the automation, leaving us to spend more time working on more important tasks. The added delegated administration system allowed administrators with less permission to run as different users. This allowed better control or who has access to which resources and enabled more people to take care of tasks that they might not have been able to do before. Finally, the improvements to the Restart-Computer
cmdlet made it much easier to work correctly into scripts and work with network infrastructure. This made the cmdlet much more practical to use in scripts.
In the next chapter we will look at the new Windows Workflow for PowerShell and how it takes scripts to an entirely...