Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition

ISBN-13: 9781617294167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 384 str.

Jeffrey Hicks

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Summary Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. This updated edition covers PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, PowerShell v3 and later, and includes v5 features like PowerShellGet. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology PowerShell is both a scripting language and an administrative shell that lets you control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands interactively and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint, as well as online services like Azure and Office 365. About the Book Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. 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. This updated edition covers PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, PowerShell v3 and later, and includes v5 features like PowerShellGet. What's Inside

• Learn PowerShell from the beginning, no experience required
• Covers PowerShell v3 and up, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 and later
• Each lesson takes you an hour or less

About the Reader Experience with Windows administration is helpful. No programming or scripting experience needed. About the Author Veteran PowerShell MVPs Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks bring years as successful trainers to this concise, easy-to-follow book. Table of Contents

1. Before you begin
2. Meet PowerShell
3. Using the help system
4. Running commands
5. Working with providers
6. The pipeline: connecting commands
7. Adding commands
8. Objects: data by another name
9. The pipeline, deeper
10. Formatting - and why it's done on the right
11. Filtering and comparisons
12. A practical interlude
13. Remote control: one-to-one, and one-to-many
14. Using Windows Management Instrumentation and CIM
15. Multitasking with background jobs
16. Working with many objects, one at a time
17. Security alert
18. Variables: a place to store your stuff
19. Input and output
20. Sessions: remote control with less work
21. You call this scripting?
22. Improving your parameterized script
23. Advanced remoting configuration
24. Using regular expressions to parse text files
25. Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques
26. Using someone else's script
27. Never the end
28. PowerShell cheat sheet

O autorze

Donald W. JonesVeteran Powershell MVP Don Jones brings years as successful trainer to this concise, easy-to-follow book. Don blogs at https://donjones.com/ Jeffrey HicksJeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP with 20 years of IT experience. Jeff blogs frequently on PowerShell related topics at http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog.