Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches 2nd Edition

SummaryLearn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for administrators. 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. You'll start with the basics&;what is PowerShell and what can you do with it. Then, you'll move systematically through the techniques and features you'll use to make your job easier and your day shorter. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. About the TechnologyPowerShell is both a language and an administrative shell with which you can control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands immediately, and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint.About the BookThis book is a tutorial designed for busy administrators. Just set aside one hour a day for a month and you'll learn all the practical techniques you need to make your job easier and your day shorter. This totally revised book covers new PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and later. This edition is appropriate for PowerShell version 3 and later.Experience with Windows administration is helpful. No programming experience is assumed.What's InsideLearn PowerShell from the beginning&;no experience required!Covers PowerShell 3 and later running on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008R2, and laterEach lesson should take you one hour or lessAbout the AuthorsPowershell MVPs Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks bring years as successful trainers to this concise, easy-to-follow book. Don blogs at PowerShell.com and you can find Jeff at jdhitsolutions.com/blog.Table of ContentsBefore you beginMeet PowerShellUsing the help systemRunning commandsWorking with providersThe pipeline: connecting commandsAdding commandsObjects: data by another nameThe pipeline, deeperFormatting&;and why it's done on the rightFiltering and comparisonsA practical interludeRemote control: one to one, and one to manyUsing Windows Management InstrumentationMultitasking with background jobsWorking with many objects, one at a timeSecurity alert!Variables: a place to store your stuffInput and outputSessions: remote control with less workYou call this scripting?Improving your parameterized scriptAdvanced remoting configurationUsing regular expressions to parse text filesAdditional random tips, tricks, and techniquesUsing someone else's scriptNever the endPowerShell cheat sheet Read more