Windows PowerShell Step by Step (3rd Ed.)
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Your hands-on guide to Windows PowerShell scripting fundamentals
Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of Windows PowerShell scripting, including features available in Windows PowerShell 5. If you are an IT professional, power user, or consultant, you?ll get the guidance, exercises, and code you need to master core techniques for automating Windows setup, deployment, and management.
 
Discover how to:
  • Run cmdlets and command-line utilities
  • Administer Windows-based servers and desktops with built-in cmdlets
  • Use providers to access external information
  • Write and run scripts from the Windows ISE
  • Create functions that are easy to maintain
  • Build standardized environments with profiles
  • Automate Windows systems with WMI, CIM cmdlets, and remoting
  • Automate Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
  • Debug scripts and handle errors
  • Run commands that survive interruptions
  • Use Desired State Configuration (DSC) to manage software services and their environments
  • Get powerful new modules from PowerShell Gallery
 
About You
This book is for:
  • IT professionals and power users who want to get productive with Windows PowerShell, including new features in Windows PowerShell 5
  • Windows system administrators who want to be more efficient and productive
  • Anyone pursuing Windows PowerShell certifications
No experience with Windows PowerShell or other scripting technologies necessary
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Overview of Windows PowerShell 5.0
  • Chapter 2: Using Windows PowerShell cmdlets 
  • Chapter 3: Understanding and using Windows PowerShell providers 
  • Chapter 4: Using Windows PowerShell remoting and jobs 
  • Chapter 5: Using Windows PowerShell scripts  
  • Chapter 6: Working with functions 
  • Chapter 7: Creating advanced functions and modules
  • Chapter 8: Using the Windows PowerShell ISE 
  • Chapter 9: Working with Windows PowerShell profiles 
  • Chapter 10: Using WMI  
  • Chapter 11: Querying WMI  
  • Chapter 12: Remoting WMI  
  • Chapter 13: Calling WMI methods on WMI classes 
  • Chapter 14: Using the CIM cmdlets  
  • Chapter 15: Working with Active Directory  
  • Chapter 16: Working with the AD DS module   
  • Chapter 17: Deploying Active Directory by using Windows PowerShell  
  • Chapter 18: Debugging scripts   
  • Chapter 19: Handling errors 
  • Chapter 20: Using the Windows PowerShell workflow 
  • Chapter 21: Managing Windows PowerShell DSC  
  • Chapter 22: Using the PowerShell Gallery 
  • Appendix A: Windows PowerShell scripting best practices 
  • Appendix B: Regular expressions quick reference 
  • Index 
  • About the author 
Ed Wilson is the Microsoft Scripting Guy and a well-known scripting expert. He writes the daily Hey Scripting Guy! Blog--the most popular blog on TechNet. He has also spoken at TechEd and at the Microsoft internal TechReady conferences. He has written more than a dozen books, including nine on Windows scripting that were published by Microsoft Press. His books include  Windows PowerShell Best Practices and  Microsoft VBScript Step by Step.

Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to automating Windows administration with the most powerful version of PowerShell ever: Windows PowerShell 5.0

  • Reflects major enhancements to PowerShell 5.0, including new classes, interaction with the PowerShell Gallery, DSC, and hundreds of new or improved cmdlets
  • Detailed "Start Here" section helps readers quickly identify and master their most valuable PowerShell improvements, based on the version they're upgrading from
  • Introduces every essential topic step-by-step
  • Reinforces key concepts with exercises and quick end-of-chapter references
  • Provides all scripts and required starter files through the TechNet Script Center Script Repository