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Product Description Get practical guidance for using Windows PowerShell to manage Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Written by Ed Wilson, a leading scripting expert and trainer at Microsoft, this reference offers a task-based approach to help you find the information you need for day-to-day tasks. With more than 200 scripts, it offers rich examples that administrators can customize for their own environment and needs. The scripts range in complexity from one-line commands, to full-blown scripts with managed output and command-line arguments examples that are applicable to all skill levels. Includes a companion CD with fully searchable eBook, sample scripts, and other resources for managing your Windows-based environment.
Key Book Benefits
Delivers more than 200 scripts administrators can customize and use to get up and running quickly
Provides multiple ways of accomplishing tasks: from one-line commands to full-blown scripts with managed output and command-line arguments
Features a task-oriented approach, and organized to help you quickly find the information you need for your day-to-day activities
Includes a companion CD with a fully searchable eBook, sample scripts, and other resources for on-the-job results
Featured Customer Reviews Not a guide. More like a do-it-for-you book,
November 11, 2008 While I'm sure this would be useful to Active Directory Admins (who don't like to come up with their own stuff), I found little use in this book. With this title, I expected to find a whole book going through how to write scripts and explaining the different concepts. Instead, there is one chapter of less than 30 pages titled "Scripting with PowerShell" and the rest of the book is pre-written examples of auditing and managing an AD based network. As the reviewer before me stated, this book should have been called Powershell and WMI. I got 10x more information about scripting with PS from a free 10 page tutorial I found online. With this book I was reminded why I don't like Microsoft sponsored books.
The other book by the same Author "Windows Powershell - Step by Step" was a little better but again most of it (2/3) was about AD and WMI.
I wouldn't waste your money on these. There are much better online tutorials for free and they are a much quicker read. However, like I said, if you don't like doing your own work, and your boss is hounding you for something out of PS, then by all means get this book. For the rest of us, save your money. Promising but didn't deliver,
May 14, 2008 This book looked really good at first. A lot of practical scripts included, however, they all appear to be basically the same with exception of a WMI call (query). Which brings up the point, that a lot this book is geared towards using WMI. A better title might be Using Powershell and WMI. There is very little in terms of concepts, efficient uses of Powershell, using COM or WinRM. Many of the concepts and techniques are spread through out the book and difficult to locate. If you have a basic understanding of Powershell, need some quick and dirty scripts and don't plan on getting to know it much more in depth this might work for you.
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