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By Andy Oakley
First Edition
December 2005
Pages: 206
ISBN 10: 0-596-10009-4 |
ISBN 13: 9780596100094
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)
Windows PowerShell, formerly know by its codename "Monad" and available now for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, and soon for Exchange Server 2007 and MOM, is the future of Windows administration. Monad, O'Reilly's innovative, hands-on introduction to the tool is an exciting tour of some of the new capabilities that PowerShell puts into the hands of system administrators and power users, and is the perfect complement to existing PowerShell documentation.
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Windows PowerShell, formerly know by its codename "Monad" and available now for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, and soon for Exchange Server 2007 and MOM, is the future of Windows administration. From setting up automated build environments to managing 20,000 Exchange email clients in an organization, any tool that reduces the number of repetitive steps an administrator must perform, is a real win. Even better, PowerShell part of a major Microsoft initiative that aims to replace a host of Windows management tools with a single, unified shell. This is the promise of PowerShell and the reason IT professionals need to start learning how to use it today
Reflecting the best of legacy tools such as bash and the Korn shell, PowerShell also breaks new ground in its command language design and its use of the object-oriented .NET Framework. And there is no better way to learn how to put PowerShell to work than to get your hands on Monad, O'Reilly's innovative, hands-on introduction to the tool. This concise 200-page book is an exciting tour of some of the new capabilities that PowerShell puts into the hands of system administrators and power users, and is the perfect complement to existing PowerShell documentation.
With more than 40 hands-on activities, the book covers every angle, from using PowerShell commands and its object-oriented pipelines to querying systems, generating reports and writing scripts that automate existing tasks. Adding to the lure is the fact that the book is written by Microsoft manager, Andy Oakley with a Foreword by PowerShell architect Jeffrey Snover-so you can be certain that it's teeming with inside information. Monad lets you see for yourself how PowerShell can significantly improve your productivity.
Because the PowerShell technology has wide appeal, so, too, does this compact guide. Developers, administrators, and power users alike can all benefit from its insight. If you're someone who habitually drifts toward the c-m-d keys, knows all of the switches to most command tools, or spends time authoring batch files to solve new challenges, this book is right up your alley. And if your organization plans to upgrade soon to Exchange 2007 or MOM V3, there's no time to waste.
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Book details
First Edition: December 2005
ISBN: 0-596-10009-4
Pages: 206
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 2 Reviews)
Featured customer reviews
Good option to learn MSH!!!, January 31 2006
Monad (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msh/) presents the next generation of command interpreter included in the next Microsoft Operating Systems. Andy Oakley, the Author, show new commands and resources, through clearly samples and detailed descriptions, increasing the level of complexity slowly and comfortable supporting users to learning about all topics without doubts. Complete and one excellent book to have.
Very Good Introduction, January 27 2006
This book is a very good introduction to Monad. I had played around with the betas for a while but did not have a good feel for the language comming from vbscript instead of the unix, C, PERL, or C# worlds. The book's tutorial sytle made it easy to get comfortable with the language. The book is relative small. I read it in a day. I just wish they had added a few more tables in the book along with the web links they give.
Media reviews
"Of course those who've been dissatisfied with cmd.exe and tortuous batch files have always had (and continue to have) the option of using Perl, Python and other languages to perform admin tasks on Windows systems. However, Monad represents a powerful new option. The clean syntax built on top of .NET makes this an exciting technology for Windows-based developers and administrators, and this book does a great job of introducing it."
-- Pan Pantziarka, TechBookReport.com
"If you're a semi-experienced Windows scripter looking to get ready for Monad, this is the book for you."
--Oliver Rist, SMB IT, February 2006
"The book is a really good introduction into the basics of Monad. It's short (around 150 pages), provides a great introduction to the language and to the MSH shell and is accurate wrt Beta 3 (it was written around B2, but so far I've not found anything in the book that does not work in B3). I found reading at the keyboard and trying out the code samples was a great way to learn more about Monad."
--Thomas Lee, Under the Stairs: Thomas Lee's Web Log, January 2006
