Authors: Lee Holmes
Pages: 504
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN13: 9780596528492
Written by Microsoft PowerShell team developer and blogger Lee Holmes this book is a complete learning resource that not only offers a task-based introduction to the Windows PowerShell scripting language and environment, but provides hundreds of tested scripts that you can use right away to administer Windows systems.
Along with hands-on tutorials on an array of PowerShell fundamentals, common tasks, and administrator tasks, Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide includes scripts for automating your job and just about anything you touch -- from working with files, event logs and other forms of structured data to managing the users and resources of complex Windows networks.
Those who administer Microsoft's Exchange 2007 and System Center Operations Manager (formerly MOM) will also benefit from this book, with separate chapters devoted to these servers. All Windows administrators will appreciate the appendices that include a PowerShell language quick reference, and a reference to the .NET, WMI and COM objects that PowerShell scripters will use often.
Although this book is still in progress, you can still get going with PowerShell through our Rough Cuts version, which gives you online and PDF access to this guide as it's being written. Topics in the book include:
Fundamentals -- you will learn about pipelines, variables, objects, looping and flow control, strings and unstructured text, calculations and math.
Common tasks -- covers simple files; structured files; Internet-enabled scripts; code reuse; lists, arrays and hashtables; user feedback; error management; environmental awareness; script signing; and more
Administrator tasks -- includes files and directories, registry manipulation, comparing data, event logs, process cmdlets, service cmdlets, Active Directory, enterprise computer management, and more.
With tutorials, scripts and references all in one volume, Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide will turbocharge the productivity of any Windows administrator.