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Product Description
Windows PowerShell transformed the way administrators and developers interact with Windows, allowing them to script administrative tasks and control Windows from the command line. It's now a daily timesaver for anyone working with Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server, and other mission-critical tools.
Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition shows how to build scripts and utilities to automate system tasks or create powerful system management tools to handle the day-to-day tasks that drive a Windows administrator's life. This updated edition covers PowerShell V2 in detail, with full chapters on remoting, modules, events, and the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment.
While no prior knowledge of PowerShell is required, the reader should have some amount of scripting or programming experience.
From the Author
PowerShell V2 added an enormous number of new features to the product. Similarly, this book represents a major expansion on the first edition. At nearly twice the length of the first book, it provides deep and detailed coverage of PowerShell V2 and its features:
Chapter 1
-PowerShell's history and a quick tour of its features.
Chapter 2
-Foundations of PowerShell - the core concepts underlying the PowerShell language and execution environment.
Chapter 3
-An introduction to the PowerShell type system and how it works.
Chapter 4
-Operators and expressions including basic arithmetic, comparison and assignment, wildcard and regular expression pattern matching.
Chapter 5
-Operations for working with arrays (indexing, slicing) and objects (properties and methods, output redirection, the formatting operator and PowerShell variables.
Chapter 6
-PowerShell language constructs like conditional statements and loops.
Chapter 7
-Basic scripting in PowerShell, introducing functions and variable scoping.
Chapter 8
-How to write advanced functions and scripts using parameter metadata, dynamic parameters and how to create in-line help for your functions and scripts.
Chapter 9
-Using and authoring PowerShell modules.
Chapter 10
-Advanced topics in modules including how modules should be used in a production environment.
Chapter 11
-Advanced scripting techniques covering metaprogramming, scriptblocks, dynamic modules and closures.
Chapter 12
-PowerShell remoting - the basics of operation and application.
Chapter 13
-Remoting in depth covering the protocol stack, custom configurations and constrained service endpoints.
Chapter 14
Error and exception handling.
Chapter 15
The PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment and debugger.
Chapter 16
-Text processing such as basic string processing, file processing (including handling binary files) and working with XML documents including the use of the new XLinq APIs.
Chapter 17
-Leveraging the .NET framework to do network programming and build GUIs in Windows Forms and WPF.
Chapter 18
-Using COM to automate Windows features including the task scheduler and applications like Word and Internet Explorer.
Chapter 19
-Using WMI and WSMan from the command line and in scripts to inspect, update and manage a Windows system.
Chapter 20
-In-depth coverage and application of the PowerShell eventing subsystem.
Chapter 21
-Security concepts and best practices for PowerShell
Sample chapters, the appendixes and code for the examples in the book can be downloaded from the Manning website.
About the Author
Bruce Payette is a Princpal Developer in the Manageability group at Microsoft. He is a founding member of the PowerShell team, the author of the PowerShell language interpreter, and one of the designers of the Windows PowerShell language. Bruce has been working on shells and related tools for the past 20 years on a wide variety of operating systems including Unix and Linux.