Try out the SDL Tridion 2013 PowerShell module from http://code.google.com/p/tridion-powershell-modules/. Also see Tridion.stackexchange: http://tridion.stackexchange.com/q/3641/88
Set-TridionCoreServiceHost my.cm.host
Get-TridionUser -Verbose
Get-TridionPublications | Select-Object Id, Title