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PowerShell in Practice
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PowerShell in Practice

by Richard Siddaway
June 2010
Beginner
584 pages
20h 54m
English
Manning Publications
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Part 3. Working with servers

In the previous two parts of the book, we learned how to use PowerShell. We’ve taken that knowledge and applied it to performing administration tasks that directly impact the user community. In part 3, we’ll turn our attention to working with Windows servers and the applications that run on our servers.

Desktop administration tends to be about performing the same acts on many machines. Server administration is about performing a wider range of actions on a smaller number of machines. The other major difference is that an individual desktop machine having problems doesn’t impact the business (unless it belongs to a senior manager, of course). A server that’s having problems could stop a business-critical application ...

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