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Do you know how to use Windows PowerShell to navigate the filesystem and manage files and folders? Or how to retrieve a web page? This introduction to the PowerShell language and scripting environment provides more than 430 task-oriented recipes to help you solve the most complex and pressing problems, and includes more than 100 tried-and-tested scripts that intermediate to advanced system administrators can copy and use immediately.
You'll find hands-on tutorials on fundamentals, common tasks, and administrative jobs that you can apply whether you're on a 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. With Windows PowerShell Cookbook, you’ll get more done in less time.
- Take a tour of PowerShell’s core features, including the command model, object-based pipeline, and ubiquitous scripting
- Learn PowerShell fundamentals such as the interactive shell and fundamental 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, the filesystem, registry, event logs, processes, and services
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.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With O'Reilly you can't really go wrong needed a hands on book as more and more of our scripts are being converted to powershell, really handy for starters to get a grip and for the pro's to have some more inside.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A vital piece of any PowerShell scripter's collection
1 Sep 2010
Format:Paperback
I've been using PowerShell for a little over a year now, and I've acquired quite a hefty collection of PSH-related books. Among those books, the 1st edition of Lee Holmes' "Windows PowerShell Cookbook" is one the most heavily read and dog-eared. The new 2nd edition adds chapters and sample scripts around PowerShell 2.0's new features, like Event Handling and Advanced Functions, but most importantly, it retains - and even expands upon - the obvious passion that Holmes has for PowerShell, and for helping people understand it.
Whether you're just getting into PowerShell now, or you're a seasoned expert who has been using PowerShell since it was codenamed "Monad", Lee Holmes' "Windows PowerShell Cookbook" should have a prominent position on your bookshelf, or in your e-book reader!
** Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but my job has nothing to do with PowerShell. This review is my own personal opinion. **
Whether you're just getting into PowerShell now, or you're a seasoned expert who has been using PowerShell since it was codenamed "Monad", Lee Holmes' "Windows PowerShell Cookbook" should have a prominent position on your bookshelf, or in your e-book reader!
** Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but my job has nothing to do with PowerShell. This review is my own personal opinion. **
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Excellent tool
24 Sep 2010
Format:Paperback
I have read many powershell books out there, and many of them are good, many are not so good. This book claims to be a cookbook, which typically I use as a reference to take ideas from. There is usually a short explanation of the concepts and uses of the technology. But I found I gained a good deal of practical application of the concepts in these short reviews. So in short this should not be your 1st Powershell book, but it should definitely be your second if you are an IT administrator.
The scripts are comprehensive, and useful. Lee has done a great job. I found immediate use that saved me a couple days in consulting time. So a $40 book and a couple of hours of my time against that cost, was quite a good return and I end up being the IT hero again.
The scripts are comprehensive, and useful. Lee has done a great job. I found immediate use that saved me a couple days in consulting time. So a $40 book and a couple of hours of my time against that cost, was quite a good return and I end up being the IT hero again.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
very good to pull ideas or a how to on but...
26 May 2011
Format:Paperback
I have read several of the chapters and used parts here and there in the book and I do have java programming experience so i am not a total newbie.
As other readers have noted: This should not be your first scripting or PS book.
The books description does not make it out to be more than it is. A cookbook. It also provides a lot of PS basics but it also leaves a lot out. I was scratching my head on Arrays, lists and other collections. The book does not allow for clear distinctions between them but my experience told me there was a difference. Structuring the script was also passed over too quickly. I had to do some digging on the Internet for opinions and answers.
There are many scripts in the book but they are written or purposed in a way that do not expose the weaknesses/complexities of powershell like:
-"how do I know my Get-function is going to return an collection? sometimes it returns an object and if it does this script will fail"
-"how do I make my [array] of a static size?"
So I am going to keep this book around and read more of it BUT I am also going to look for another to partner it with.
As other readers have noted: This should not be your first scripting or PS book.
The books description does not make it out to be more than it is. A cookbook. It also provides a lot of PS basics but it also leaves a lot out. I was scratching my head on Arrays, lists and other collections. The book does not allow for clear distinctions between them but my experience told me there was a difference. Structuring the script was also passed over too quickly. I had to do some digging on the Internet for opinions and answers.
There are many scripts in the book but they are written or purposed in a way that do not expose the weaknesses/complexities of powershell like:
-"how do I know my Get-function is going to return an collection? sometimes it returns an object and if it does this script will fail"
-"how do I make my [array] of a static size?"
So I am going to keep this book around and read more of it BUT I am also going to look for another to partner it with.
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