In a recent blog post comment, someone asked “can you please tell them [EF Dev Team] some developers would like to use the Power Shell command script and not PM console to update database.”

If you look inside the package folder for Entity Framework 4.3 (or 4.3.1 or whatever is the current version in the future) there’s a tools directory and inside of there a migrate.exe command. It is the same as the update-database command with all of the same parameters.