Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition

**The Barnes & Noble Review**__1+1=2. The Earth is round. The Windows command line stinks.____Windows PowerShell In Action__Author Bruce Payette co-architected the PowerShell language and developed its core implementation, so you won't find a more knowledgeable author. Payette starts by outlining Microsoft's goals for PowerShell, explaining the approach it chose (and why it avoided other alternatives) and previewing some of PowerShell's major advantages (such as its support for the .NET object model). In the final four chapters, you'll put PowerShell to work and gain a deeper understanding of its power. You'll walk through several processing examples utilizing text, files, and XML; learn how to create a WinForms application with PowerShell (and why you might want to); and use PowerShell to control existing COM and WMI objects.

Summary

Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised edition of the bestselling book on PowerShell, written by Bruce Payette, one of the founding members of the Windows PowerShell team, co-designer of the PowerShell language, and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation. The definitive book on PowerShell V2.

About the Technology

Windows PowerShell transformed the way administrators and developers interact with Windows. PowerShell, an elegant dynamic language from Microsoft, lets you script administrative tasks and control Windows from the command line. Because it's a full-featured, first-class Windows programming language, programmers and power-users can now do things in a shell that previously required VB, VBScript, or C#.

About the Book

This expanded, revised, and updated Second Edition preserves the original's crystal-clear introduction to PowerShell and adds extensive coverage of v2 features such as advanced functions, modules, and remoting. It includes full chapters on these topics and also covers new language elements and operators, events, Web Services for Management, and the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment.

The First Edition's coverage of batch scripting and string processing, COM, WMI, and .NET have all been significantly revised and expanded. The book includes many popular usage scenarios and is rich in interesting examples that will spark your imagination. This is the definitive book on PowerShell v2!

Who Should Read It

Written for developers and administrators with intermediate level scripting knowledge. No prior experience with PowerShell is required.

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

• Batch scripting, string processing, files, and XML
• PowerShell remoting
• Application of COM and WMI
• Network and GUI programming
• Writing modules and scripts

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Table of Contents

1. PART 1 Learning PowerShell
2. Welcome to PowerShell
3. Foundations of PowerShell
4. Working with types
5. Operators and expressions
6. Advanced operators and variables
7. Flow control in scripts
8. PowerShell functions
9. Advanced functions and scripts
10. Using and authoring modules
11. Module manifests and metadata
12. Metaprogramming with scriptblocks and dynamic code
13. Remoting and background jobs
14. Remoting: configuring applications and services
15. Errors and exceptions
16. The PowerShell ISE and debugger,/LI.
17. PART 2 Using PowerShell
18. Working with files, text, and XML
19. Extending your reach with .NET
20. Working with COM
21. Management objects: WMI and WS-MAN
22. Responding in real time with eventing
23. Security, security, security

This volume shows how to build scripts and utilities to automate system tasks or create powerful system management tools to handle the day-to-day tasks that drive a Windows administrator's life.

Windows PowerShell transformed the way administrators and developers interact with Windows, allowing them to script administrative tasks and control Windows from the command line. It's now a daily timesaver for anyone working with Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server, and other mission-critical tools. Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition shows how to build scripts and utilities to automate system tasks or create powerful system management tools to handle the day-to-day tasks that drive a Windows administrator's life. This updated edition covers PowerShell V2 in detail, with full chapters on remoting, modules, events, and the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment. While no prior knowledge of PowerShell is required, the reader should have some amount of scripting or programming experience