https://www.revindex.com/Resources/Blogs/blog/12/locale/en-US/PowerShell Windows Powershell is the new scripting engine on Microsoft Windows. slim@revindex.com Sun, 10 May 2026 02:02:56 GMT Sun, 10 May 2026 02:02:56 GMT DotNetNuke Blog RSS Generator Version 6.4.2.0 30 https://www.revindex.com/Resources/Blogs/Post/651/PowerShell-PS1-I-Feel-the-Power-But-You-re-Ugly PowerShell was previously known as Microsoft Shell (code-named Monad). When the marketing people at Microsoft finally decided to rename Microsoft Shell to PowerShell, they also renamed the file extension to ".ps1". I was perplexed by the odd extension used, so I posted a message in protest to Microsoft. (windows, command line) slim@revindex.com (Revindex Solution) Revindex Solution https://www.revindex.com/Resources/Blogs/Post/651/PowerShell-PS1-I-Feel-the-Power-But-You-re-Ugly Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:33:00 GMT 2007-08-14 19:33:00Z https://www.revindex.com/Resources/Blogs/Post/635/Enabling-Execution-of-PowerShell-PS1-Scripts Microsoft finally put together a powerful command line tool for Windows that makes Bash on Linux looks like small potato. The new powershell runs .NET and understands objects when you pipe from one process to another. Given the power and the things you can do with powershell, Microsoft is rightfully cautious about hackers and script abuse. PowerShell, by default, is very secure and disallows any powershell scripts from running. (security) slim@revindex.com (Revindex Solution) Revindex Solution https://www.revindex.com/Resources/Blogs/Post/635/Enabling-Execution-of-PowerShell-PS1-Scripts Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:30:00 GMT 2007-07-15 16:30:00Z