Windows PowerShell and Windows Server “Longhorn”
Friday, 17 November 2006 by Michel Roth
Last Tuesday in front of over 4000 attendees, Jeffrey Snover and Bob Muglia announced the release of Windows PowerShell 1.0 RTW at IT Forum. Windows PowerShell is the new command-line shell and scripting language for Windows system administration. You may have heard that Exchange Server 2007 leverages Windows PowerShell so that every task can be automated via scripts or managed from the cmd line shell. Other server roles such as IIS, Terminal Server, Active Directory, Operations Manager 2007, Virtual Machine Manager and Data Protection Manager "V2" can also be managed via PowerShell.

Jeffrey's IT Forum demo showed Windows PowerShell managing a PHP application on an IIS 7 web farm of four “Longhorn” Servers. One of the coolest parts of the demo was when Jeffrey enabled the new IIS 7 Output Caching feature and saw requests per second (RPS) skyrocket from 24 RPS to over 3000 RPS! That’s an increase of two orders of magnitude in IIS 7 performance for a PHP application running on Windows Server “Longhorn”. Read all about this demo on Bill Staple’s blog and watch a video of this PowerShell, Longhorn and IIS 7 demo on Channel 9.

Read on at the Windows Server Division WebLog.

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