Authors Derek Schauland and Donald Jacobs take you through a range of examples, showing you how to gather information from different computer sources. Whether you are logged into the server locally or just wanting to check the status of a server from your local computer, the right PowerShell cmdlets can give you a lot of information quickly, and allow you to troubleshoot your servers from the command line with little interaction with the server's desktop.

In this book, you'll learn how PowerShell can help you:

• Understand PowerShell versus the GUI
• Gather information from Windows event logs
• Gather information from your server,including memory, hardware configurations, and disk space available
• Find out what applications are installed on a server
• Find out which Windows updates have been installed on your computer
• Check the processes running on your computer and gather information about them, or start and stop them from the command line
• Quickly check if services are running, and stop or start them as needed