Book Description
In Windows, there's a control panel, dialog box, console, or
wizard to manage every component of a system. There are thousands
of them—so many that it can be nearly impossible to keep
track of all the locations and settings one needs to administer
Windows effectively. PowerShell provides administrators with a
single, unified command line from which they can control and
automate every aspect of Windows.
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches is an
innovative tutorial designed for busy administrators. Author Don
Jones has taught thousands of administrators to use PowerShell, and
now he brings his years of training techniques to a concise,
easy-to-follow book. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime
would be perfect—for an entire month, and readers will be
automating administrative tasks faster than they ever thought
possible.
Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- About this Book
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Before you begin
- Chapter 2. Running commands
- Chapter 3. Using the help system
- Chapter 4. The pipeline: connecting commands
- Chapter 5. Adding commands
- Chapter 6. Objects: just data by another name
- Chapter 7. The pipeline, deeper
- Chapter 8. Formatting—and why it’s done on the right
- Chapter 9. Filtering and comparisons
- Chapter 10. Remote control: one to one, and one to many
- Chapter 11. Tackling Windows Management Instrumentation
- Chapter 12. Multitasking with background jobs
- Chapter 13. Working with bunches of objects, one at a time
- Chapter 14. Security alert!
- Chapter 15. Variables: a place to store your stuff
- Chapter 16. Input and output
- Chapter 17. You call this scripting?
- Chapter 18. Sessions: remote control, with less work
- Chapter 19. From command to script to function
- Chapter 20. Adding logic and loops
- Chapter 21. Creating your own “cmdlets” and modules
- Chapter 22. Trapping and handling errors
- Chapter 23. Debugging techniques
- Chapter 24. Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques
- Chapter 25. Final exam: tackling an administrative task from scratch
- Chapter 26. Beyond the operating system: taking PowerShell further
- Chapter 27. Never the end
- Chapter 28. PowerShell cheat sheet
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings