This book helps you use PowerShell to get things done. It contains hundreds of solutions to specific, real-world problems. For systems management, you'll find plenty examples that show how to manage the filesystem, Windows Registry, event logs, processes, and more
PC audit and inventory of software, licenses, security configuration, hardware, network settings... can be called on the commandline, xcopy deployed (single exe)
everything you see in MobileShell ... including settings dialog boxes and intellisense is exposed as web services. You can write your own apps and execute any PowerShell scripts in production environment over HTTP/HTTPS, preserve session state, even get meta information such as intellisense.
Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs), even on a system that's online.
Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion.
Scenario: Using PowerShell remoting, normal users can perform non-admin tasks on a machine remotely. There might be situations where an Administrator of the machine may want to terminate specific sessions created by specific users.
"TimeTag is an open source time series database for Windows PowerShell and the .NET framework. A time series database is useful for capturing and compressing time series data into a fixed size container."
"Bling is a C#-based library for easily programming images, animations, interactions, and visualizations on Microsoft's WPF/.NET. Bling is oriented towards design technologists, i.e., designers who sometimes program, to aid in the rapid prototyping of rich UI design ideas. "