PowerShell Deep Dives

Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, Aleksandar Nikolic | 4.41 | 28 ratings and reviews

Summary

Here's your chance to learn from the best in the business. PowerShell Deep Dives is a trove of essential techniques, practical guidance, and the expert insights you earn only through years of experience. Editors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic hand-picked the 28 chapters in the book's four parts: Administration, Scripting, Development, and Platforms.

About the Technology

PowerShell has permanently changed Windows administration. This powerful scripting and automation tool allows you to control virtually every aspect of Windows and most Microsoft servers like IIS and SQL Server. Here's your chance to learn from the best in the business.

About this Book

PowerShell Deep Dives is a trove of essential techniques and practical guidance. It is rich with insights from experts who won them through years of experience. The book's 28 chapters, grouped in four parts (Administration, Scripting, Development, and Platforms), were hand-picked by four section editors: Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic.

Whether you're just getting started with PowerShell or you already use it daily, you'll find yourself returning to this book over and over.

What's Inside

Managing systems through a keyhole
The Ten Commandments of PowerShell scripting
Scalable scripting for large datasets
Adding automatic remoting
Provisioning web servers and websites automatically to IIS 8
And 23 more fantastic chapters

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the AuthorsEditors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic are joined by PowerShell experts Chris Bellee, Bartek Bielawski, Robert C. Cain, Jim Christopher, Adam Driscoll, Josh Gavant, Jason Helmick, Don Jones, Ashley McGlone, Jonathan Medd, Ben Miller, James O'Neill, Arnaud Petitjean, Vadims Podans, Karl Prosser, Boe Prox, Matthew Reynolds, Mike Robbins, Donabel Santos, Will Steele, Trevor Sullivan, and Jeff Wouters.

Table of Contents

PART 1 POWERSHELL ADMINISTRATION
Diagnosing and troubleshooting PowerShell remoting
CIM sessions 22
Collecting and analyzing performance counter data
TCP port communications with PowerShell
Managing systems through a keyhole
Using PowerShell to audit user logon events
Managing and administering a certification authoritydatabase with PowerShell
Using PowerShell to reduce Active Directory token bloat
PART 2 POWERSHELL SCRIPTING
The 10 PowerShell scripting commandments
Avoiding the pipeline
A template for handling and reporting errors
Tips and tricks for creating complex or advancedHTML reports with PowerShell
Using and "abusing" dynamic parameters
PowerShell type formatting
Scalable scripting for large data sets: pipelineand database techniques
Building your own WMI-based cmdlets
Turning command-line tools into PowerShell tools
PART 3 POWERSHELL FOR DEVELOPERS
Using Source Control Software with PowerShell
Inline .NET code
PowerShell and XML: better together
Adding automatic remoting to advanced functionsand cmdlets
Taming software builds (and other complicated processes)with psake
PART 4 POWERSHELL PLATFORMS
PowerShell and the SQL Server provider
Creating flexible subscriptions in SSRS
Inventory database table statistics using PowerShellSQL Server Management Objects
WSUS and PowerShell
Provisioning IIS web servers and sites with PowerShell
Active Directory Group Management application less

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