PowerShell Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition - Portable Help for PowerShell Scripters

Written By Microsoft Powershell Team Member Lee Holmes, And Excerpted From His Powershell Cookbook, This Pocket Reference Offers Up-to-date Coverage Of Powershell's Latest Release. You'll Find Information On .net Classes And Legacy Management Tools That You Need To Manage Your System, Along With Chapters On How To Write Scripts, Manage Errors, Format Output, And Much More. Applicable Whether You Work On The Client Or Server Version Of Windows Or Use Powershell On Another System. PowerShell has revolutionized the world of system management and command-line shells. From its object-based pipelines to its administrator focus to its enormous reach into other Microsoft management technologies, PowerShell drastically improves the productivity of administrators and power users alike. When you’re learning a new technology, it’s natural to feel bewildered at first by all the unfamiliar features and functionality. This perhaps rings especially true for users new to PowerShell because it may be their first experience with a fully featured command-line shell. Or worse, they’ve heard stories of PowerShell’s fantastic integrated scripting capabilities and fear being forced into a world of programming that they’ve actively avoided until now. Fortunately, these fears are entirely misguided; PowerShell is a shell that both grows with you and grows on you. Let’s take a tour to see what it is capable of: This portable reference to PowerShell summarizes the command shell and scripting language and provides a concise guide to the many tasks that make PowerShell so useful. If you're a busy administrator and don't have time to plow through huge books or in-depth online searches, this is the ideal on-the-job tool. Written by PowerShell team member Lee Holmes and excerpted from his PowerShell Cookbook, this edition offers up-to-date coverage of Windows PowerShell 5.1 and open source PowerShell Core up to 7 and beyond. Beginning with a guided tour of PowerShell, this handy guide covers: • PowerShell language and environment • Regular expression reference • XPath quick reference • .NET string formatting • .NET DateTime formatting • Selected .NET classes and their uses • WMI reference • Selected COM objects and their uses • Standard PowerShell verbs This portable reference to PowerShell summarizes the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the many tasks that make PowerShell so useful. If you're a busy administrator and don't have time to plow through huge books or search online, this is the ideal on-the-job tool.