Advantage of PowerShell

Advantage of PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language that provides an administrator full access to applicable application programming interfaces (APIs).
• Administrators can interact directly with SharePoint 2013 to manipulate web applications, site collections, sites, lists and much more. In addition, an administrator can script cmdlets (pronounced "command-lets").

Advantage

• Without using PowerShell, you may limited to the use the GUI of Central Administration, SharePoint Designer and Site Settings.
• There are a number of features that you simply can't use without running PowerShell because there is no GUI support for those features.