I also cry a lot about 64-bit Windows builds because I work a lot in WinPE and other environments where syswow64 is not available.įirst lets start with most obvious choices well known through years.
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exe file, that can be carried around on a USB pen drive or network share. Note that throughout the article I will be repeatedly referring to a “portable” editor. This article aims to be a grand tour of whatever is available out there. So, are there any 3rd party alternatives? Yes, and there are and quite a lot of them! Unfortunately none are perfect and most are old and unmaintained. Seems that Redmond forgot to include most crucial tool in sysadmins, or developers job – a simple text mode editor. This overall is good news and great improvement since previous generations of Windows, but what if you need to create or edit a PowerShell, CMD script or some config file? Nowadays everything seems to be text mode.
Even System Center is a front end for PowerShell. Just take a look at Server Core, WinPE, Nano, PS Remoting, Windows SSH server, Recovery Console and Emergency Management Services.
MMC and GUI based administration is suddenly thing of a past. I remember sitting through countless TechEd / Ignite sessions year after year, and all I could see were blue PowerShell command prompts everywhere. Since 2012 or so, Microsoft has been pushing concept of running Windows Server “headless”, without GUI, and administering everything through PowerShell. (This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox)
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