PowerShell For Beginners: Learn Quickly with Real World Scripts

This book will allow you to unleash the power of PowerShell and allow you to automate many of your day to day administration tasks.

With the recent development of PowerShell becoming open source and enabled for cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux) support, Powershell is now a technology that administrators must learn to become more efficent and productive.

If you are looking for a practical PowerShell book, where you can learn PowerShell with real-world useful commands rather than wading through masses of text, then this is the book for you.
The layout of this book is designed so the first half will guide you step by step, by using PowerShell commands and gradually build them out. The second half will go over the various areas of systems and show you, how you can use and apply PowerShell commands to manage your IT environment.

By reading this book and running the commands, you will be able to get a overall view of what PowerShell can do. The aim is to get you up and running as rapidly as possible, with example code provided for the area you are interested in. So, if you want the ability to manage your IT environment from a command-line shell environment, you want to automate many of your manual tasks, and you want to learn a new skill. Then dive in and let’s get started.

Target Users

The book has been created for a variety of target audiences. The most suitable users would include:

• Beginners who want to approach PowerShell but are intimidated by scripting and lines of code.
• Newbies in PowerShell who want to learn PowerShell; but are overwhelmed on where to start.
• Administrators, users or students who need to get up and running with PowerShell and need real-life useful PowerShell scripts.