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.

About the Technology

PowerShell 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 Book

This 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 Inside

Learn PowerShell from the beginning—no experience required!

Covers PowerShell 3 and later running on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008R2, and later

Each lesson should take you one hour or less

About the Authors

Powershell 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 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

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

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