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		jiggy2011 on July 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PowerShell vs. Unix shells Would this not mean that to do administrative tasks you need to be using a Windows 7 Pro computer and could not do it from a Windows Home, Mac or Linux box?

gecko on July 16, 2012 [–]

You would need to RDC into at least one machine and run the scripts from there, in that scenario--so no worse than where you are now.

Note that Windows 8 removes the distinction between Pro and other editions.

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