PowerShell in Depth

Summary

PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by three experienced authors and PowerShell MVPs, this is the PowerShell book you'll keep next to your monitor—not on your bookshelf!

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Book

A Windows admin using PowerShell every day may not have the time to search the net every time he or she hits a snag. Wouldn't it be great to have a team of seasoned PowerShell experts ready to answer even the toughest questions? That's what you get with this book.

PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by PowerShell MVPs Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks, and Richard Siddaway, each valuable technique was developed and thoroughly tested, so you'll be able to consistently write production-quality, maintainable scripts while saving hours of time and effort.

This book assumes you know the basics of PowerShell.

What's Inside

• Automating tasks
• Packaging and deploying scripts
• Introduction to Desired State Configuration
• PowerShell security
• Covers PowerShell version 3 and later

About the Authors

Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks, and Richard Siddaway are Microsoft MVPs, trainers, and administrators. Collectively, they've authored nearly three dozen books on PowerShell and Windows administration.

Table of Contents

1. PART 1 POWERSHELL FUNDAMENTALS
2. Introduction
3. PowerShell hosts
4. Using the PowerShell help system
5. The basics of PowerShell syntax
6. Working with PSSnapins and modules
7. Operators
8. Working with objects
9. The PowerShell pipeline
10. Formatting
11. PART 2 POWERSHELL MANAGEMENT
12. PowerShell Remoting
13. Background jobs and scheduling
14. Working with credentials
15. Regular expressions
16. Working with HTML and XML data
17. PSDrives and PSProviders
18. Variables, arrays, hash tables, and script blocks
19. PowerShell security
20. Advanced PowerShell syntax
21. PART 3 POWERSHELL SCRIPTING AND AUTOMATION
22. PowerShell's scripting language
23. Basic scripts and functions
24. Creating objects for output
25. Scope
26. PowerShell workflows
27. Advanced syntax for scripts and functions
28. Script modules and manifest modules
29. Custom formatting views
30. Custom type extensions
31. Data language and internationalization
32. Writing help
33. Error handling techniques
34. Debugging tools and techniques
35. Functions that work like cmdlets
36. Tips and tricks for creating reports
37. PART 4 ADVANCED POWERSHELL
38. Working with the Component Object Model (COM)
39. Working with .NET Framework objects
40. Accessing databases
41. Proxy functions
42. Building a GUI
43. WMI and CIM
44. Working with the web
45. Desired State Configuration