Description

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

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 and CIM
   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