PowerShell for Sysadmins: Workflow Automation Made Easy - Softcover

Adam Bertram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593279183 ISBN 13: 9781593279189

Publisher: No Starch Press,US, 2020

Synopsis

Learn to use PowerShell, Microsoft's scripting language, to automate real-world tasks that IT professionals and system administrators deal with every day.

Save Time. Automate.

PowerShell® is both a scripting language and an administrative shell that lets you control and automate nearly every aspect of IT. In PowerShell for Sysadmins, five-time Microsoft® MVP "Adam the Automator" Bertram shows you how to use PowerShell to manage and automate your desktop and server environments so that you can head out for an early lunch.

You'll learn how to:

- Combine commands, control flow, handle errors, write scripts, run scripts remotely, and test scripts with the PowerShell testing framework, Pester

- Parse structured data like XML and JSON, work with common domains (like Active Directory, Azure, and Amazon Web Services), and create a real-world server inventory script

- Design and build a PowerShell module to demonstrate PowerShell isn't just about ad-hoc scripts

- Use PowerShell to create a hands-off, completely automated Windows deployment

- Build an entire Active Directory forest from nothing but a Hyper-V host and a few ISO files

- Create endless Web and SQL servers with just a few lines of code!

Real-world examples throughout help bridge the gap between theory and actual system, and the author's anecdotes keep things lively.

Stop with the expensive software and fancy consultants. Learn how to manage your own environment with PowerShell for Sysadmins and make everyone happy.

Covers Windows PowerShell v5.1

About this title

About the Author

Adam Bertram is a 20-year veteran of IT. He's an automation engineer, blogger, consultant, freelance writer, Pluralsight course author and content marketing advisor to multiple technology companies. Adam focuses on DevOps, system management, and automation technologies as well as various cloud platforms mostly in the Microsoft space. He is a 3-time Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP who absorbs knowledge from the IT field and explains it in an easy-to-understand fashion.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press,US
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593279183
• ISBN 13: 9781593279189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320