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By Lee Holmes
First Edition
October 2007
Pages: 584
ISBN 10: 0-596-52849-3 |
ISBN 13: 9780596528492
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)
This Cookbook provides hundreds of tested scripts that you can use right away to administer Windows systems using Microsoft's new tool-everything from automating routine tasks to working with files, event logs and other forms of structured data to managing the users and resources of complex Windows networks. Along with its task-based introduction to the Windows PowerShell scripting language and environment, this book meets the needs of system administrators at any level.
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This Cookbook by Windows PowerShell team developer Lee Holmes provides hundreds of tested scripts that you can use right away to get Microsoft's new tool working for you. More than 150 recipes, combined with a concise task-based introduction to the Windows PowerShell scripting language and environment, make it the perfect look-up guide when you encounter a thorny problem, or need a quick solution. The ideal companion to any tutorial or reference, this book meets the needs of system administrators at any level.
Microsoft has revolutionized the world of system management and command-line shells with its release of Windows PowerShell, and Lee Holmes gives you practical tools and inside advice that will make you a more productive user and administrator. You will be able to solve everything from automating routine tasks, working with files, event logs and other forms of structured data, to managing the users and resources of complex Windows networks. Each recipe includes a focused piece of code plus discussion of how and why it works, so that you can apply the solution to similar tasks.
You get an array of recipes covering PowerShell fundamentals, common tasks, and administrator tasks, including:
With working scripts, tutorials, and references all in one volume, Windows PowerShell Cookbook will turbocharge the productivity of any Windows administrator.
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Microsoft has revolutionized the world of system management and command-line shells with its release of Windows PowerShell, and Lee Holmes gives you practical tools and inside advice that will make you a more productive user and administrator. You will be able to solve everything from automating routine tasks, working with files, event logs and other forms of structured data, to managing the users and resources of complex Windows networks. Each recipe includes a focused piece of code plus discussion of how and why it works, so that you can apply the solution to similar tasks.
You get an array of recipes covering PowerShell fundamentals, common tasks, and administrator tasks, including:
- Pipelines, variables, objects, looping and flow control, strings and unstructured text, calculations and math
- Simple files; structured files; Internet-enabled scripts; code reuse; lists, arrays and hashtables; user feedback; error management; environmental awareness; script signing; and more
- Files and directories, registry manipulation, comparing data, event logs, process cmdlets, service cmdlets, Active Directory, enterprise computer management, and more
With working scripts, tutorials, and references all in one volume, Windows PowerShell Cookbook will turbocharge the productivity of any Windows administrator.
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Book details
First Edition: October 2007
ISBN: 0-596-52849-3
Pages: 584
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 2 Reviews)
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Currently a must-have PowerShell book., March 28 2008
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...worth it for the appendicies alone, this is the definitive reference for PowerShell 1.0. There are a few other good books, but this is the one you'll keep coming back to.
Take a look at the official PowerShell blog...the architect of the language has a "Tower of Power" of all the PowerShell books in the marketplace. Well, he forgot one book in his photo, because it was on his desk...with tons of post-its marking important pages.
That was this book. It's not perfect (i.e. it could be more depth in the real-world Exchange admin examples, but that's a whole 'nother book in itself), but it's pretty great. Even great for an "only" book because going through the examples by hand is the best way to learn the language and environment.
PowerShell - one step further down the road, January 12 2008
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Rolf
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Hello,
In the last month I have read many books and articles about PowerShell.
Many have one thing in common. From a certain point on, when it comes down to "how to solve your problems", some of them lack this information.
They are all good books to understand PowerShell, but this one, Lee Holmes Cookbook, gives you this additional piece of information.
The five different parts
Tour, Fundamentals, Common Tasks, Administrator Tasks and the References give the "new to scripting person" as well as the "scripting dinosaur" a collection of information they can use on a daily basis.
Many of the recipes reference or build on top of each other.
It can happen that you pick one special recipe e.g. "Create a Registry Key Value". It is, as usual in PowerShell, a one-liner. But you will not be successful in using this script without the information of the chapter "Navigate the Registry".
One more thing that makes this book different to many others is the very useful last part, the Reference. Much of the basics you need to be more successful with PowerShell are collected here.
Especially for the "I'm not a developer"-fraction of the scripting administrators like me ;-)
Having this book on your shelf or better on your desk is a "must have" for all PowerShell users.
Best regards from the
PowerShell Usergroup Germany/Swiss/Austria
Media reviews
"All in all this is a superb book and I would recommend it to anyone using PowerShell - newcomer or expert - you will find lots of useful information. The expert user will be intrigued by some of the solutions - I know I found some ahhh - thats how that works type moments as I was reading. Buy it. Read it. Use it. "
-- Richard Siddaway
"...an excellent technical survey programmers will relish."
-- James Cox, The Bookwatch
