Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches

Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches

Author: Don Jones | Language: English | ISBN: 1617291080 | Format: EPUB

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About the Book

Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for administrators. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for a month, and you'll be automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought possible. You'll start with the basics—what is PowerShell and what can you do with it. Then, you'll move systematically through the techniques and features you'll use to make your job easier and your day shorter. This totally revised second edition covers new PowerShell 3 features designed for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

What's Inside

Learn PowerShell from the beginning—no experience required!
Covers PowerShell 3, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012
Each lesson should take you one hour or less

About the Technology

PowerShell is both a language and an administrative shell with which you can control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands immediately, and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint.

Experience with Windows administration is helpful. No programming experience is assumed.

Table of Contents

Before you begin

Meet PowerShell

Using the help system

Running commands

Working with providers

The pipeline: connecting commands

Adding commands

Objects: data by another name

The pipeline, deeper

Formatting—and why it's done on the right

Filtering and comparisons

A practical interlude

Remote control: one to one, and one to many

Using Windows Management Instrumentation

Multitasking with background jobs

Working with many objects, one at a time

Security alert!

Variables: a place to store your stuff

Input and output

Sessions: remote control with less work

You call this scripting?

Improving your parameterized script

Advanced remoting configuration

Using regular expressions to parse text files

Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques

Using someone else's script

Never the end

PowerShell cheat sheet

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications; Second Edition edition (November 22, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1617291080
ISBN-13: 978-1617291081
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

This book contains 28 chapters and is designed to be read one chapter a day. One hour is enough time to read a single chapter and work through the re-enforcing lab exercises at the end of that chapter. This method of learning is extremely effective, especially for a beginner, which gives them consumable amounts of knowledge without overwhelming them.
In my opinion, this book is the best book on the market for someone who has no prior experience with PowerShell and wants to learn the best practices from day one, although prior experience working with at least the graphical user interface (GUI) on Microsoft Windows based workstations and servers would be helpful. This book is also beneficial for anyone already using PowerShell who wants to learn the best practices from two of the top PowerShell experts in the industry.
By the time you finish this book, you'll have a good understanding of the PowerShell help system, cmdlets, providers, objects, the pipeline, formatting, comparison operators, filtering, remoting, using PowerShell to access WMI, the new CIM cmdlets, background jobs, variables, and much more. My personal favorite chapter in this book is the one on regular expressions (chapter 24) which is a brand new chapter on a subject that wasn't included in the first edition of this book.
If I could only have one PowerShell book, "Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition" would be it, especially if I were a beginner. I've written a more comprehensive review of this book on my blog site at: [...]
By Mike F Robbins

I have just started the book, but if seems to focus on powershell commands and uses rather than scripting. If you know powershell or want to get right into scripting, then this book is not for you. This book covers a little scripting but doesn't focus on it.
By A. Perez

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