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Open-source solutions

- [Instructor] All right, so let's go ahead and talk about some third party solutions that are available for PowerShell. So PowerShell is a fairly extendable environment, so it can easily be extendable by third parties. So we don't have to just use only the things that Microsoft has provided when it comes to PowerShell. Third party companies can produce modules that we can then use and make our lives easier. So some companies have created pay-for modules, Quest has some great modules for active directory, for example, once you pay for 'em, you can download them and install them on your box. There's some free modules out there as well. When it comes to being a DBA, one of the best free modules out there is dbatools. You can download that from www.dbatools.io. Now, the great thing about the dbatools is not only is it free, so the price is right, but it's open source. So you can actually take anything you do with it and you can actually pass that back to them, and they can then use that…

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