February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
632 pages
20h 20m
English
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PowerShell’s real value lies not in the hundreds of built-in commands that it ships with but in its ability to have more commands added. PowerShell extensions—our collective term for the PSSnapins and modules that can be loaded—permit Power-Shell to manage anything: IIS, Exchange, SQL Server, VMware, NetApp, SharePoint, Cisco, you name it. Being able to efficiently work with these extensions is probably one of the most important things you’ll do in the shell.
Before we jump into working with these extensions, let’s get something straight: There’s ...