Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches by Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks

By Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks

About the Book

Learn home windows PowerShell three in a Month of Lunches, moment Edition is an cutting edge educational designed for directors. simply put aside one hour a day—lunchtime will be perfect—for a month, and you'll be automating home windows initiatives swifter than you ever suggestion attainable. You'll commence with the basics—what is PowerShell and what are you able to do with it. Then, you'll movement systematically in the course of the strategies and lines you'll use to make your task more uncomplicated and your day shorter. this absolutely revised moment version covers new PowerShell three gains designed for home windows eight and home windows Server 2012.

buy of the print publication comes with a suggestion of a unfastened PDF, ePub, and Kindle e-book from Manning. additionally to be had is all code from the book.

What's Inside
* research PowerShell from the beginning—no adventure required!
* Covers PowerShell three, home windows eight, and home windows Server 2012
* each one lesson should still take you one hour or less

About the Technology

PowerShell is either a language and an administrative shell with that you would be able to keep watch over and automate approximately each element of home windows. It accepts and executes instructions instantly, and you may write scripts to control such a lot home windows servers like alternate, IIS, and SharePoint.

Experience with home windows management is beneficial. No programming adventure is assumed.

Table of Contents
<ol>* sooner than you begin
* Meet PowerShell
* utilizing the assistance system
* working commands
* operating with providers
* The pipeline: connecting commands
* including commands
* items: facts through one other name
* The pipeline, deeper
* Formatting—and why it's performed at the right
* Filtering and comparisons
* a realistic interlude
* handheld remote control: one to at least one, and one to many
* utilizing home windows administration Instrumentation
* Multitasking with historical past jobs
* operating with many gadgets, one at a time
* protection alert!
* Variables: a spot to shop your stuff
* enter and output
* periods: handheld remote control with much less work
* You name this scripting?
* enhancing your parameterized script
* complex remoting configuration
* utilizing commonplace expressions to parse textual content files
* extra random guidance, tips, and techniques
* utilizing an individual else's script
* by no means the end
* PowerShell cheat sheet
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That said, the PowerShell console application will be your only option when you’re running PowerShell on a server that doesn’t have a GUI shell installed (that’s any “Server Core” installation, or any Windows Server installation where the Server GUI Shell feature has been removed or not installed). On the plus side, 12 CHAPTER 2 Meet PowerShell  The console application is tiny. It loads fast and doesn’t use much memory. NET Framework stuff than PowerShell itself needs.  You can set the colors to be green text on a black background and pretend you’re working on a 1970s-era mainframe.

2 It’s typing class all over again PowerShell is a command-line interface, and that means you’ll do a lot of typing. Typing leaves room for errors—typos. Fortunately, both PowerShell applications provide ways to help minimize typos. TRY IT NOW The following examples are impossible to illustrate in a book, but they’re cool to see in action. Consider following along in your own copy of the shell. The console application supports tab completion in four areas:  Type Get-S and press Tab a few times, then try pressing Shift-Tab.

If you decide to use the console application, we have a few suggestions for configuring it. 3. On the Options tab, you can increase the size of the Command History Buffer Size. This buffer is how the console remembers what commands you’ve typed, and how you recall them using the up and down arrows on your keyboard. You can also hit F7 for a pop-up list of commands. On the Font tab, pick something a bit larger than the default 12 pt font. Please. We don’t care if you have 20/10 vision, jack up the font size a bit.

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