SummaryPowerShell 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 BookA 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 AuthorsDon 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 ContentsPART 1 POWERSHELL FUNDAMENTALS
- Introduction
- PowerShell hosts
- Using the PowerShell help system
- The basics of PowerShell syntax
- Working with PSSnapins and modules
- Operators
- Working with objects
- The PowerShell pipeline
- Formatting
PART 2 POWERSHELL MANAGEMENT
- PowerShell Remoting
- Background jobs and scheduling
- Working with credentials
- Regular expressions
- Working with HTML and XML data
- PSDrives and PSProviders
- Variables, arrays, hash tables, and script blocks
- PowerShell security
- Advanced PowerShell syntax
PART 3 POWERSHELL SCRIPTING AND AUTOMATION
- PowerShell's scripting language
- Basic scripts and functions
- Creating objects for output
- Scope
- PowerShell workflows
- Advanced syntax for scripts and functions
- Script modules and manifest modules
- Custom formatting views
- Custom type extensions
- Data language and internationalization
- Writing help
- Error handling techniques
- Debugging tools and techniques
- Functions that work like cmdlets
- Tips and tricks for creating reports
PART 4 ADVANCED POWERSHELL
- Working with the Component Object Model (COM)
- Working with .NET Framework objects
- Accessing databases
- Proxy functions
- Building a GUI
- WMI and CIM
- Working with the web
- Desired State Configuration
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.
