Powershell Resources
Even though Powershell is no where near as complete as Shell Scripts on GNU/Linux, you can usually figure out how to accomplish various tasks using Powershell. Just remember that Windows does not have nearly as many command line tools to use as GNU/Linux systems (so it may be a little harder to get what you want done).
I am adding content about Powershell on this page, and I will eventually put all the "important" Powershell scripts here that I use.
Powershell Basics
File Compression Script
Monitoring Logs using Powershell & a website
Microsoft includes quite a few Powershell "cmdlets" to easily gather info and perform actions against Windows Operating Systems. One of these "cmdlets" is called Get-EventLog and allows you to easily get the entries within a System's Event Logs. Upon playing around with this cmdlet I found that I could easily create a website that I could use to easily go through all the servers logfiles that I help maintain.
This article will step you through setting up what I created within your network to aid in maintaining your Windows Servers. You can view an example page of what this looks like here, note that I simply used the same machine 6 times, but you will get the idea of what the results look like.
