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, …