For those of you who have had the pleasure of
installing SQL 2008 and noticed that there are several
prerequisites (which it would have been really nice if the SQL
install program had included rather than it being a manual
process).
Prerequites for
installing SQL 2008
One of these is Windows Power Shell. You may
have thought if power shell was powerful: it would blow a hole in
your security. If power shell did not blow a hole in your security
it could not be very powerful and therefore not worth learning
about. Well it is powerful and it seems it does not blow a hole in
your security. However the attitude - I'll install it and see what
it does, is not quite as fruitful as one might hope. Power shell is
not quite like a batch file. You install it, find a useful script
from the internet, down load it to a *.ps1 file on your desk top,
double click and get an error message. The shower shell script does
not run. The following article takes you through the process of
actually running a power shell script. I like the way it's written
as well!
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/manual/run.mspx