Foreword

Windows SharePoint 2010 is a huge product. Believe it or not, it is also a complicated product. Sure, you can launch startup—click, click, click through the wizard—and come out on the other side with a SharePoint installation, but that is only scratching the surface.

Windows SharePoint is one of the fastest growing products in history, and it is quickly becoming mission-critical for numerous companies around the world. Whereas SharePoint 2007 was a really cool product, with an automation API, its use for automation purposes was a bit complicated for the average SharePoint administrator. This is why Windows PowerShell is included as a management tool for SharePoint 2010.

But guess what? When you attempt to automate a huge and complicated ...

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