In the My PS … series of blog entries this entry lists the SnapIns and Modules I use (regularly).
Note that the following list is my personal list and that it is definitely not my aim to list all available PowerShell snapins and modules. That would be a sheer impossible task, seen the abundance of the currently available snapins and modules.
Previous entries in this series were My PS toolbelt and My PS library.A few words of explanation on the following table.
In the Fmt column I tried to indicate in which format the add-on comes, as a snapin, as a module or as both. The entries that have src in this column have to be dot-sourced.
In the PSv column you can find which PowerShell version the add-on requires.
The Bit column indicates, where possible, if the add-on provides a 32- and/or a 64-bit version. Some add-ons come with their own DLLs and I had to rely on the author’s information to fill in this column.
| Name | Fmt | version | PSv | Bit | Sort description |
| PowerCLI | snap | 4/162509 | 1,2 | 32,64 | vSphere management |
| VI Toolkit for Windows Community Extensions | mod | 60625 | 2 | na | PowerCLI addon |
| Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell | snap | 1.2.2 | 1,2 | 32,64 | Active Directory management |
| WASP | both | 1.3 RC | 1,2 | 32 | Windows GUI automation |
| PowerBoots | mod | GPL v0.2 | 2 | 32 | Create graphical user interfaces |
| PS Community Extensions (PSCX) | both | 1.2 | 1,2 | 32 | Set of additional cmdlets, providers, aliases, filters, … |
| PowerShell OnTAP | src | 0.1 | 1,2 | na | Interact with NetApp OnTAP SDK |
| IIS 7.0 PS Provider | mod | 1.0 | 2 | 32,64 | IIS 7.0 administration |
| Active Directory | mod | 1.0 | 2 | 32,64 | Active Directory administration |
| SCOM | snap | 2007 | 1,2 | 32,64 | Operations Manager administration |
| SQL | snap | 2008 | 1,2 | 32,64 | SQL 2008 administration |
| Exchange | snap | 2007 | 1,2 | 32,64 | Exchange 2007 administration |
| SharePoint 2010 | ? | 2010 | ? | ? | SharePoint 2010 administration |
I will try to update/correct this table regularly but feel free to let me know if you happen to have corrections or more recent information.
And you’re of course welcome to send pointers to snapins and modules not in this table that you consider useful.