Windows PowerShell: TFM, 4th Edition

Join the leading edge of Windows administrative scripting with Windows PowerShell, the comprehensive command-line environment and scripting shell for Windows and Windows-based server products. PowerShell offers that fastest, easiest, and most consistent way to automate almost any administrative task, including IIS, Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange, System Center, Remote Desktop Services, and much more. This all-new Windows PowerShell: TFM is fully updated to cover all new and improved PowerShell v4 features. If you can do it with Windows PowerShell, it’s covered here, starting with absolute beginners all the way through advanced topics. No other book on Windows PowerShell provides this much coverage, with such clear explanations, from two recipients of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award!

Table of Contents

Chapter 01 Before you start
Chapter 02 Diving into PowerShell
Chapter 03 Don’t fear the­ shell
Chapter 04 Finding Help when neededThe extensive and evolving Help system
Chapter 05 Working with providers and drives
Chapter 06 Pipelines for rapid management
Chapter 07 Sorting and measuring data for output
Chapter 08 Filtering your output
Chapter 09 Exporting and formatting your data
Chapter 10 Automation: Your first script
Chapter 11 Increasing your management capabilities
Chapter 12 Storing data for later
Chapter 13 Making your script smarter
Chapter 14 Increasing management with WMI/CIM
Chapter 15 Super-sized management with PowerShell remoting
Chapter 16 Background and scheduled jobs
Chapter 17 Making tools: Turning a script into a reusable tool
Chapter 18 Making tools: Creating object output
Chapter 19 Making tools: Adding Help
Chapter 20 Debugging and error handling
Chapter 21 Creating WinForm tools with PowerShell Studio
Chapter 22 Desired state configuration