Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft's Command Shell

Holmes, Lee

ISBN 10: 1449320686 / ISBN 13: 9781449320683

Published by O'Reilly Media, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft's Command Shell
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449320686
• ISBN 13: 9781449320683
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

How do you use Windows PowerShell to navigate the filesystem, manage files and folders, or retrieve a web page? This introduction to the PowerShell language and scripting environment provides more than 400 task-oriented recipes to help you solve all kinds of problems. Intermediate to advanced system administrators will find more than 100 tried-and-tested scripts they can copy and use immediately.

Updated for PowerShell 3.0, this comprehensive cookbook includes hands-on recipes for common tasks and administrative jobs that you can apply whether you’re on the client or server version of Windows. You also get quick references to technologies used in conjunction with PowerShell, including format specifiers and frequently referenced registry keys to selected .NET, COM, and WMI classes.

• Learn how to use PowerShell on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
• Tour PowerShell’s core features, including the command model, object-based pipeline, and ubiquitous scripting
• Master fundamentals such as the interactive shell, pipeline, and object concepts
• Perform common tasks that involve working with files, Internet-connected scripts, user interaction, and more
• Solve tasks in systems and enterprise management, such as working with Active Directory and the filesystem

About the Author

Lee Holmes is a developer on the Microsoft Windows PowerShell team, and has been an authoritative source of information about PowerShell since its earliest betas. His vast experience with Windows PowerShell enables him to integrate both the 'how' and the 'why' into discussions. Lee's involvement with the PowerShell and administration community (via newsgroups, mailing lists, and blogs) gives him a great deal of insight into the problems faced by all levels of administrators and PowerShell users alike.