"POWERSHELL" is Microsoft's first recognition of the value of administrative scripting and automation, providing Windows administrators with a consistent, powerful way to automate Windows and other Microsoft server products (such as Exchange Server). In this groundbreaking book, scripting gurus Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks teach you PowerShell from the ground up: You'll learn about its underlying technologies, its flexible scripting language, all the built-in "cmdlets" included with the new shell, and you'll learn enough of the .NET Framework to be effecive in PowerShell scripting. This is your opportunity to stay on the leading edge of Microsoft Windows administrative scripting, from the world's most recognized and popular scripting authors.

Microsoft Windows PowerShell: TFM

Computers & Technology

Jones, Don

Hicks, Jeffery

Operating Systems

Sapien Pub

It's the manual Microsoft should have written! A complete reference to the VBScript and Windows Script Host language - for the Windows administrator. Far more than a mere syntax reference, WSH and VBScript CORE: TFM provides you with detailed administrative script examples for each function, statement, keyword, object, property, method and more. If a function can be used in three different ways, you'll find three different and complete examples. No more guessing about what the docs mean and no more hunting around on the Web trying to find the exact example you need. You'll never again wander through examples meant for developers because this book was written entirely and specifically for Windows administrators! WSH and VBScript CORE: TFM is the last VBScript and Windows Script Host reference you'll need, because it's accurate, complete, and designed especially for Windows administrative scripting.

Wsh and Vbscript Core: Tfm

Web Development & Design

SAPIEN Technologies

Join the leading edge of Windows administrative scripting with Microsoft PowerShell, the new, comprehensive, consistent, and powerful scripting shell for Microsoft Windows and the Windows Server System. Microsoft's committed to building future graphical administration tools on top of PowerShell, meaning PowerShell will offer the fastest, easiest, and most complete way to automate any Windows administrative task. This new second edition of Windows PowerShell: TFM is more than 25% larger and contains more than 60% revised and re-written material, making it the most comprehensive and authoritative Windows PowerShell book currently available. You'll not only learn what PowerShell is and how it works, but you'll learn to take PowerShell further using custom type extensions, basic cmdlet development, custom formatting views, .NET Framework development, graphical dialog boxes, and much, much more. A completely revised first part helps you get started with PowerShell faster than ever, with explanations based on live class deliveries to more than 1,000 students; coverage of PowerShell's scripting capabilities has been vastly expanded and rewritten to make the subject both easier and more applicable to real-world scenarios. No other PowerShell book provides this much coverage, with such clear explanations from two recipients of Microsoft's Windows PowerShell MVP award! Authors Don Jones (Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI, Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators) and Jeffery Hicks (WSH and VBScript Core: TFM, Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators) teach you PowerShell scripting and administration from the ground up: You don't need any prior PowerShell, VBScript, or any other scripting or programming experience. You'll learn about cmdlets, snap-ins, scripts, PowerShell's security model, third party extensions and just enough of the .NET Framework to fully leverage PowerShell and become a more efficient administrator. Written in an easygoing, casual style with plenty of practical and "real-world" examples, you'll find yourself producing useful PowerShell scripts after the second chapter!

Windows PowerShell v1.0: TFM

So you're got Active Directory and PowerShell. how do you make them work together? Find out in Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM. You'll not only learn about managing Active Directory users and groups with PowerShell, but also computer accounts, group policy, Active Directory infrastructure and more. Coverage includes how to use "out of the box" PowerShell features like the [ADSI] type adapter, as well as 3rd party solutions such as the Quest Software Active Roles Management Shell for Active Directory. Inside you'll find plenty of real-world and practical examples, including complete scripts you can use right now to get your job done faster and more efficiently! This book is not only the definitive guide to Managing Active Directory, but also local directory services. Need to manage the local administrator account on 1000 servers? Need to find out who belongs to the local Administrators group on those 1000 servers? You can easily accomplish these tasks and more with PowerShell right from your desktop. If you are just getting started with PowerShell or need a quick refresher, jump in with the PowerShell Crash Course in Chapter 1 and hit the ground running. Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM can be used as a reference guide or read cover to cover as a thorough tutorial led by a Windows PowerShell MVP. PowerShell will be The Windows management tool, so why wait?

Managing Active Directory With Windows Powershell TFM

Summary
Packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for each self-contained lesson. You'll move quickly through core scripting concepts and start working on four real-world, practical tools. Each chapter adds more functionality, including custom formatting, error handling, parameterized input, input validation, help files and documentation, and more.
About this Book
You don't have to be a software developer to build PowerShell tools. With this book, a PowerShell user is a step away from becoming a proficient toolmaker.Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking in just one hour a day. It's packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning. It's an easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, helpfiles, and more.
 Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. 
What's Inside
<ul>
<li>Build your own administrative tools</li>
<li>Learn by doing with hands-on labs</li>
<li>Make scripts that feel like native PowerShell cmdlets</li>
</ul>
This book does not assume you are a programmer. Experience using PowerShell as a command-line interface is helpful but not required.
About the Authors
Don Jones is a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer. Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP and an independent consultant, trainer, and author. Don and Jeff coauthored Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition (Manning 2012) and PowerShell in Depth (Manning 2013).
Table of ContentsPART 1 INTRODUCTION TO TOOLMAKING<ol>
<li>Before you begin</li>
<li>PowerShell scripting overview</li>
<li>PowerShell's scripting language</li>
<li>Simple scripts and functions</li>
<li>Scope</li>PART 2 BUILDING AN INVENTORY TOOL<li>Tool design guidelines</li>
<li>Advanced functions, part 1</li>
<li>Advanced functions, part 2</li>
<li>Writing help</li>
<li>Error handling</li>
<li>Debugging techniques</li>
<li>Creating custom format views</li>
<li>Script and manifest modules</li>
<li>Adding database access</li>
<li>Interlude: creating a new tool 157</li>PART 3 ADVANCED TOOLMAKING TECHNIQUES<li>Making tools that make changes</li>
<li>Creating a custom type extension</li>
<li>Creating PowerShell workflows</li>
<li>Troubleshooting pipeline input</li>
<li>Using object hierarchies for complex output</li>
<li>Globalizing a function</li>
<li>Crossing the line: utilizing the .NET Framework</li>PART 4 CREATING TOOLS FOR DELEGATED ADMINISTRATION<li>Creating a GUI tool, part 1: the GUI</li>
<li>Creating a GUI tool, part 2: the code</li>
<li>Creating a GUI tool, part 3: the output</li>
<li>Creating proxy functions</li>
<li>Setting up constrained removing endpoints</li>
<li>Never the end</li>
</ol>

Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches

Programming

Manning Pubns Co

Summary Here's your chance to learn from the best in the business. PowerShell Deep Dives is a trove of essential techniques, practical guidance, and the expert insights you earn only through years of experience. Editors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic hand-picked the 28 chapters in the book's four parts: Administration, Scripting, Development, and Platforms. About the Technology PowerShell has permanently changed Windows administration. This powerful scripting and automation tool allows you to control virtually every aspect of Windows and most Microsoft servers like IIS and SQL Server. Here's your chance to learn from the best in the business. About this Book PowerShell Deep Dives is a trove of essential techniques and practical guidance. It is rich with insights from experts who won them through years of experience. The book's 28 chapters, grouped in four parts (Administration, Scripting, Development, and Platforms), were hand-picked by four section editors: Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic. Whether you're just getting started with PowerShell or you already use it daily, you'll find yourself returning to this book over and over. What's Inside <ul>
<li>Managing systems through a keyhole</li>
<li>The Ten Commandments of PowerShell scripting</li>
<li>Scalable scripting for large datasets</li>
<li>Adding automatic remoting</li>
<li>Provisioning web servers and websites automatically to IIS 8</li>
<li>And 23 more fantastic chapters</li>
</ul>
 Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the AuthorsEditors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic are joined by PowerShell experts Chris Bellee, Bartek Bielawski, Robert C. Cain, Jim Christopher, Adam Driscoll, Josh Gavant, Jason Helmick, Don Jones, Ashley McGlone, Jonathan Medd, Ben Miller, James O'Neill, Arnaud Petitjean, Vadims Podans, Karl Prosser, Boe Prox, Matthew Reynolds, Mike Robbins, Donabel Santos, Will Steele, Trevor Sullivan, and Jeff Wouters. Table of Contents <ol>PART 1 POWERSHELL ADMINISTRATION<li>Diagnosing and troubleshooting PowerShell remoting</li>
<li>CIM sessions 22</li>
<li>Collecting and analyzing performance counter data</li>
<li>TCP port communications with PowerShell</li>
<li>Managing systems through a keyhole</li>
<li>Using PowerShell to audit user logon events</li>
<li>Managing and administering a certification authoritydatabase with PowerShell</li>
<li>Using PowerShell to reduce Active Directory token bloat</li>PART 2 POWERSHELL SCRIPTING<li>The 10 PowerShell scripting commandments</li>
<li>Avoiding the pipeline</li>
<li>A template for handling and reporting errors</li>
<li>Tips and tricks for creating complex or advancedHTML reports with PowerShell</li>
<li>Using and "abusing" dynamic parameters</li>
<li>PowerShell type formatting</li>
<li>Scalable scripting for large data sets: pipelineand database techniques</li>
<li>Building your own WMI-based cmdlets</li>
<li>Turning command-line tools into PowerShell tools</li>PART 3 POWERSHELL FOR DEVELOPERS<li>Using Source Control Software with PowerShell</li>
<li>Inline .NET code</li>
<li>PowerShell and XML: better together</li>
<li>Adding automatic remoting to advanced functionsand cmdlets</li>
<li>Taming software builds (and other complicated processes)with psake</li>PART 4 POWERSHELL PLATFORMS<li>PowerShell and the SQL Server provider</li>
<li>Creating flexible subscriptions in SSRS</li>
<li>Inventory database table statistics using PowerShellSQL Server Management Objects</li>
<li>WSUS and PowerShell</li>
<li>Provisioning IIS web servers and sites with PowerShell</li>
<li>Active Directory Group Management application</li>
</ol>

PowerShell Deep Dives

Siddaway, Richard

Grehan, Oisin

Nikolic, Aleksandar

Networking & Cloud Computing

Manning

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 <ul>
<li>Automating tasks</li>
<li>Packaging and deploying scripts</li>
<li>Introduction to Desired State Configuration</li>
<li>PowerShell security</li>
<li>Covers PowerShell version 3 and later</li>
</ul>
 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 <ol>PART 1 POWERSHELL FUNDAMENTALS<li>Introduction</li>
<li>PowerShell hosts</li>
<li>Using the PowerShell help system</li>
<li>The basics of PowerShell syntax</li>
<li>Working with PSSnapins and modules</li>
<li>Operators</li>
<li>Working with objects</li>
<li>The PowerShell pipeline</li>
<li>Formatting</li>PART 2 POWERSHELL MANAGEMENT<li>PowerShell Remoting</li>
<li>Background jobs and scheduling</li>
<li>Working with credentials</li>
<li>Regular expressions</li>
<li>Working with HTML and XML data</li>
<li>PSDrives and PSProviders</li>
<li>Variables, arrays, hash tables, and script blocks</li>
<li>PowerShell security</li>
<li>Advanced PowerShell syntax</li>PART 3 POWERSHELL SCRIPTING AND AUTOMATION<li>PowerShell's scripting language</li>
<li>Basic scripts and functions</li>
<li>Creating objects for output</li>
<li>Scope</li>
<li>PowerShell workflows</li>
<li>Advanced syntax for scripts and functions</li>
<li>Script modules and manifest modules</li>
<li>Custom formatting views</li>
<li>Custom type extensions</li>
<li>Data language and internationalization</li>
<li>Writing help</li>
<li>Error handling techniques</li>
<li>Debugging tools and techniques</li>
<li>Functions that work like cmdlets</li>
<li>Tips and tricks for creating reports</li>PART 4 ADVANCED POWERSHELL<li>Working with the Component Object Model (COM) </li>
<li>Working with .NET Framework objects</li>
<li>Accessing databases</li>
<li>Proxy functions</li>
<li>Building a GUI</li>
<li>WMI and CIM</li>
<li>Working with the web</li>
<li>Desired State Configuration</li>
</ol>

PowerShell in Depth

Summary Discover how scripting is different from command-line PowerShell, as you explore concrete hands-on examples in this handy guide. The book includes and expands on many of the techniques presented in Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Automate it! With Microsoft's PowerShell language, you can write scripts to control nearly every aspect of Windows. Just master a few straightforward scripting skills, and you'll be able to eliminate repetitive manual tasks, create custom reusable tools, and build effective pipelines and workflows. Once you start scripting in PowerShell, you'll be amazed at how many opportunities you'll find to save time and effort. About the Book Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches teaches you how to expand your command-line PowerShell skills into effective scripts and tools. In 27 bite-size lessons, you'll discover instantly useful techniques for writing efficient code, finding and squashing bugs, organizing your scripts into libraries, and much more. Advanced scripters will even learn to access the .NET Framework, store data long term, and create nice user interfaces. What's Inside <ul>
<li>Designing functions and scripts</li>
<li>Effective pipeline usage</li>
<li>Dealing with errors and bugs</li>
<li>Professional-grade scripting practices</li>
</ul>
 About the Reader Written for devs and IT pros comfortable with PowerShell and Windows. About the Authors Don Jones is a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer who has written dozens of books on information technology topics. Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP and an independent consultant, trainer, and author. Don and Jeff coauthored Manning's Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches, and PowerShell in Depth. Table of Contents <ol>PART 1 - INTRODUCTION TO SCRIPTING <li>Before you begin </li>
<li>Setting up your scripting environment </li>
<li>WWPD: what would PowerShell do? </li>
<li>Review: parameter binding and the PowerShell pipeline </li>
<li>Scripting language crash course </li>
<li>The many forms of scripting (and which to use) </li>
<li>Scripts and security </li>PART 2 - BUILDING A POWERSHELL SCRIPT<li>Always design first </li>
<li>Avoiding bugs: start with a command </li>
<li>Building a basic function and script module </li>
<li>Going advanced with your function </li>
<li>Objects: the best kind of output </li>
<li>Using all the pipelines </li>
<li>Simple help: making a comment </li>
<li>Dealing with errors </li>
<li>Filling out a manifest </li>PART 3 - GROWN-UP SCRIPTING <li>Changing your brain when it comes to scripting </li>
<li>Professional-grade scripting </li>
<li>An introduction to source control with git </li>
<li>Pestering your script </li>
<li>Signing your script </li>
<li>Publishing your script </li>PART 4 - ADVANCED TECHNIQUES <li>Squashing bugs </li>
<li>Making script output prettier </li>
<li>Wrapping up the .NET Framework </li>
<li>Storing data-not in Excel! </li>
<li>Never the end </li>
</ol>

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches

Manning Publications

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition: Write and organize scripts and tools

Petty, James

The PowerShell Scripting & Toolmaking Book: Author-Authorized Second Edition

Programming Languages

Independently published

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