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Windows PowerShell 2.0 was released with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It has also been released for older platforms, i.e. Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.^[3]

Windows PowerShell is built on top of, and is integrated with, the Microsoft .NET Framework. Additionally PowerShell enables easy access to COM and WMI to provide an environment in which administrators perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems.