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Subscribe to droptipsInstead of going through the long-winded way of installing features using Server Manager, you can install PowerShell quickly in Windows Server 2008 from the command line using the following command:
servermanagercmd -install powershell
Why use the GUI when the command line is much quicker?
You’ll have noticed that Windows 7 is pretty strict with some applications on the tasks they can perform – I often find myself needing elevated privileges in a Command Prompt to edit the routing table for example.
You can, of course, right click on the application from the start menu and run as Administrator, but there’s also a keyboard shortcut:
Ctrl + Shift + (Click Mouse)
If you hold down the control key, the shift key and then click the application, it’ll run it with administrator privileges – you’ll probably get a prompt from User Account Control, letting you know what’s happening. This works from both the start menu, the taskbar, and any icon.
We all use the Windows Command Prompt, but there are quite a few very useful features you may not know about – one being command history viewing.
To access the command history of your current session, press “F7″ and you’ll be presented with a prompt containing the last commands you’ve executed.
Please note that it only shows you the command history from the current session.