In the previous section, we learned the terminology and quick foundational introduction to the concepts of PowerShell SDK for XenDesktop automation. We'll now see how to get the environment set up and will start authoring PowerShell scripts using XenDesktop PowerShell SDK command-lets.
We'll see the quick installation and configuration steps required to install and configure both PowerShell and XenDesktop PowerShell SDK.
PowerShell ships by default with the latest Windows Server and desktop operating systems. With each recent release of Windows operating systems, Microsoft has released a newer version of PowerShell. In fact, the upcoming Windows 10 release is supposed to ship the latest PowerShell Version v5. Starting with the PowerShell 2.0 release with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has integrated and made PowerShell available by default on the systems. For the earlier versions...