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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

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

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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781617292187
  • Publisher: Manning Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Manning Publications
  • Depth: 51
  • Height: 248 mm
  • No of Pages: 744
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 1255 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1617292184
  • Publisher Date: 14 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 2 PAP/PSC
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 42 mm
  • Width: 174 mm


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