PowerShell in Depth
Summary

PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by three experienced authors and PowerShell MVPs, this is the PowerShell book you'll keep next to your monitor—not on your bookshelf!

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Book

A Windows admin using PowerShell every day may not have the time to search the net every time he or she hits a snag. Wouldn't it be great to have a team of seasoned PowerShell experts ready to answer even the toughest questions? That's what you get with this book.

PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by PowerShell MVPs Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks, and Richard Siddaway, each valuable technique was developed and thoroughly tested, so you'll be able to consistently write production-quality, maintainable scripts while saving hours of time and effort.

This book assumes you know the basics of PowerShell.

What's Inside
  • Automating tasks
  • Packaging and deploying scripts
  • Introduction to Desired State Configuration
  • PowerShell security
  • Covers PowerShell version 3 and later

About the Authors

Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks, and Richard Siddaway are Microsoft MVPs, trainers, and administrators. Collectively, they've authored nearly three dozen books on PowerShell and Windows administration.

Table of Contents
    Introduction
  1. PowerShell hosts
  2. Using the PowerShell help system
  3. The basics of PowerShell syntax
  4. Working with PSSnapins and modules
  5. Operators
  6. Working with objects
  7. The PowerShell pipeline
  8. Formatting
  9. PowerShell Remoting
  10. Background jobs and scheduling
  11. Working with credentials
  12. Regular expressions
  13. Working with HTML and XML data
  14. PSDrives and PSProviders
  15. Variables, arrays, hash tables, and script blocks
  16. PowerShell security
  17. Advanced PowerShell syntax
  18. PowerShell's scripting language
  19. Basic scripts and functions
  20. Creating objects for output
  21. Scope
  22. PowerShell workflows
  23. Advanced syntax for scripts and functions
  24. Script modules and manifest modules
  25. Custom formatting views
  26. Custom type extensions
  27. Data language and internationalization
  28. Writing help
  29. Error handling techniques
  30. Debugging tools and techniques
  31. Functions that work like cmdlets
  32. Tips and tricks for creating reports
  33. Working with the Component Object Model (COM)
  34. Working with .NET Framework objects
  35. Accessing databases
  36. Proxy functions
  37. Building a GUI
  38. WMI and CIM
  39. Working with the web
  40. Desired State Configuration
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PowerShell in Depth
Summary

PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by three experienced authors and PowerShell MVPs, this is the PowerShell book you'll keep next to your monitor—not on your bookshelf!

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Book

A Windows admin using PowerShell every day may not have the time to search the net every time he or she hits a snag. Wouldn't it be great to have a team of seasoned PowerShell experts ready to answer even the toughest questions? That's what you get with this book.

PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by PowerShell MVPs Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks, and Richard Siddaway, each valuable technique was developed and thoroughly tested, so you'll be able to consistently write production-quality, maintainable scripts while saving hours of time and effort.

This book assumes you know the basics of PowerShell.

What's Inside
  • Automating tasks
  • Packaging and deploying scripts
  • Introduction to Desired State Configuration
  • PowerShell security
  • Covers PowerShell version 3 and later

About the Authors

Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks, and Richard Siddaway are Microsoft MVPs, trainers, and administrators. Collectively, they've authored nearly three dozen books on PowerShell and Windows administration.

Table of Contents
    Introduction
  1. PowerShell hosts
  2. Using the PowerShell help system
  3. The basics of PowerShell syntax
  4. Working with PSSnapins and modules
  5. Operators
  6. Working with objects
  7. The PowerShell pipeline
  8. Formatting
  9. PowerShell Remoting
  10. Background jobs and scheduling
  11. Working with credentials
  12. Regular expressions
  13. Working with HTML and XML data
  14. PSDrives and PSProviders
  15. Variables, arrays, hash tables, and script blocks
  16. PowerShell security
  17. Advanced PowerShell syntax
  18. PowerShell's scripting language
  19. Basic scripts and functions
  20. Creating objects for output
  21. Scope
  22. PowerShell workflows
  23. Advanced syntax for scripts and functions
  24. Script modules and manifest modules
  25. Custom formatting views
  26. Custom type extensions
  27. Data language and internationalization
  28. Writing help
  29. Error handling techniques
  30. Debugging tools and techniques
  31. Functions that work like cmdlets
  32. Tips and tricks for creating reports
  33. Working with the Component Object Model (COM)
  34. Working with .NET Framework objects
  35. Accessing databases
  36. Proxy functions
  37. Building a GUI
  38. WMI and CIM
  39. Working with the web
  40. Desired State Configuration
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Summary

PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by three experienced authors and PowerShell MVPs, this is the PowerShell book you'll keep next to your monitor—not on your bookshelf!

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Book

A Windows admin using PowerShell every day may not have the time to search the net every time he or she hits a snag. Wouldn't it be great to have a team of seasoned PowerShell experts ready to answer even the toughest questions? That's what you get with this book.

PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by PowerShell MVPs Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks, and Richard Siddaway, each valuable technique was developed and thoroughly tested, so you'll be able to consistently write production-quality, maintainable scripts while saving hours of time and effort.

This book assumes you know the basics of PowerShell.

What's Inside
  • Automating tasks
  • Packaging and deploying scripts
  • Introduction to Desired State Configuration
  • PowerShell security
  • Covers PowerShell version 3 and later

About the Authors

Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks, and Richard Siddaway are Microsoft MVPs, trainers, and administrators. Collectively, they've authored nearly three dozen books on PowerShell and Windows administration.

Table of Contents
    Introduction
  1. PowerShell hosts
  2. Using the PowerShell help system
  3. The basics of PowerShell syntax
  4. Working with PSSnapins and modules
  5. Operators
  6. Working with objects
  7. The PowerShell pipeline
  8. Formatting
  9. PowerShell Remoting
  10. Background jobs and scheduling
  11. Working with credentials
  12. Regular expressions
  13. Working with HTML and XML data
  14. PSDrives and PSProviders
  15. Variables, arrays, hash tables, and script blocks
  16. PowerShell security
  17. Advanced PowerShell syntax
  18. PowerShell's scripting language
  19. Basic scripts and functions
  20. Creating objects for output
  21. Scope
  22. PowerShell workflows
  23. Advanced syntax for scripts and functions
  24. Script modules and manifest modules
  25. Custom formatting views
  26. Custom type extensions
  27. Data language and internationalization
  28. Writing help
  29. Error handling techniques
  30. Debugging tools and techniques
  31. Functions that work like cmdlets
  32. Tips and tricks for creating reports
  33. Working with the Component Object Model (COM)
  34. Working with .NET Framework objects
  35. Accessing databases
  36. Proxy functions
  37. Building a GUI
  38. WMI and CIM
  39. Working with the web
  40. Desired State Configuration

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781617292187
Publisher: Manning
Publication date: 11/14/2014
Edition description: 2nd Edition
Pages: 744
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Don Jones is a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer. He developed the Microsoft PowerShell courseware and has taught PowerShell to more than 20,000 IT pros. Don writes the PowerShell column for TechNet Magazine and blogs about PowerShell at PowerShell.com. Ask Don your PowerShell questions at http://bit.ly/AskDon.

Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP with 20 years of IT experience. Jeff works as an independent consultant, trainer, and author and he has taught PowerShell to IT Professionals all over the world. He writes the popular Prof.PowerShell column for MCPMag.com and is a weekly contributor to the Petri IT Knowledgebase. Jeff blogs frequently on PowerShell related topics at http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog.

Richard Siddaway is a multi-year PowerShell MVP, author, speaker and blogger with many years of experience using PowerShell.
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