Windows PowerShell Team 成员Jeffrey Snover在他们的blog上写道:Windows 命令行管理工具PowerShell在去年11月推出后仅仅6个月,下载数量就已经突破百万(该数据不包含内置在Windows Server 2008 Beta3里的数据),广受系统管理员好评,他们正在对产品做最后的测试和修改,以保证我们在WS08上使用到完美的基于.net的命令行管理工具.内含更多PowerShell相关信息

微软使用PowerShell的工程:

• Exchange 2007
• System Center Operations Manager 2007 (MOM)
• Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino
• Windows Server 2008 Beta3 (Longhorn)
• Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager
• Data Protection Manager 2007
• Windows Compute Cluster Tool Pack
• <There are lots more Server, Consumer, Developer and Services products coming but I can't discuss them yet……>

第三方运用及周边产品:

• Quest Software
• /n software
• Opsware
• F5
• PowerGadgets
• Full Armor
• Sapien
• AdminScriptEditor
• PowerShellIDE
• PowerShell Analyzer
• Special Operations Software

技术书籍:

We have an impressive and growing list of commercial books available and coming:

1. PowerShell In Action (Now it its second printing!) – Manning Publications
2. Microsoft Windows PowerShell: TFM – Sapien Press
3. Microsoft Windows PowerShell Programming for Absolute Beginners
4. Professional Windows PowerShell
5. Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step
6. Windows PowerShell Unleashed
7. Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide for Windows, Exchange 2007 and MOM V3 (Sept 2007)
8. Monad (AKA PowerShell): Introducing the MSH command line shell and language
9. Professional Windows PowerShell Programming: Snapins, Cmdlets, Hosts and Providers (Sept 2007)
10. Windows PowerShell. Sprachgrundlagen, Dateisystem, Datenbankzugriffe, WMI-Steuerung (Galileo Computing)
11. Windows PowerShell - Crashkurs
12. Scripting mit Windows Powershell (Aug 2007)
13. Windows Scripting. Automatisierte Systemadministration mit dem Windows Script Host und der Windows PowerShell
14. Windows PowerShell宣言! (単行本)

This is in addition to Frank Koch's free PowerShell book which he said has had > 9,000 downloads.

社区:

In addition to the newsgroup Microsoft.Public.Windows. Powershell, there are a number of very active PowerShell-centered community forums from various vendors, autho rs, and other communities. CodePlex.com has the following 16 source projects related to PowerShell:

1. MyITForum – wiki, moderated discussion group, script examples, PS integration with SMS/CM07, OM07/MOM and Exchange.
2. .NET Reflector Add-Ins. Point this at a .DLL and it will show you the code in PowerShell
3. PowerShell Community Extensions. Community development tour-de-force. Provides Cmdlets, providers, scripts, aliases, help, everything.
4. PowerShell Scripts. PowerShell scripts for Administrators and .NET developers
5. PolyMon. .NET/SQL based system to monitor, measure, analyze and alert on a variety of network resources.
6. VS Command Shell. PowerShell window inside of Visual Studio.
7. PowerShell Remoting. Lightweight client-server application to securely connect to a remote PowerShell host and run scripts interactively
8. Powershell Scripts for Testing. Library to provide xUnit-style assertions such as Assert and AssertEquals to PowerShell.
9. Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions. Exposes Windows Installer functions. Provides the ability to query installed products and patch information and get views on packages.
10. ShinyPower. Help Viewer.
11. PowerShell Eventing Library. Allows you to trap and respond to .NET events within your PowerShell scripts.
12. PowerShell SharePoint Provider. Exposes SharePoint 2003 as a filesystem allowing admins to copy/move/rename/delete items as they would with a filesystem.
13. Visual SourceSave - PowerShell Maintenace Script. PowerShell script to automate the maintenance tasks for a Visual SourceSafe database.
14. PowerShell R Interop. Allows data objects to be passed between PowerShell and the R statistics package.
15. NewsGator PowerShell Provider. Exposes newsGator WS API as a PowerShell Provider to access RSS feeds.
16. Lokad OpenShell. Allows access to Lokad business time-series forecasting features.
17. JungleDiskSnapIn. PowerShell implementation of Jungledisk which uses the Amazon S3 storage services.