Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices (IT Best Practices - Microsoft Press) 1st Edition

by Ed Wilson (Author)

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Apply best practices for automating system administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and optimize your operational efficiency and results. This guide captures the field-tested tips, real-world lessons, and candid advice of practitioners across the range of business and technical scenarios and across the scripting life cycle. Discover how to:

Take advantage of new features and cmdlets in Windows PowerShell 2.0
Plan scripting usage scenarios and define standards Deploy Windows PowerShell 2.0 to desktops and servers
Configure scripting environments
Optimize remote scripting capabilities
Work with Active Directory and WMI
Design functions and modules
Optimize input and output
Handle errors
Document scripts
Test and troubleshoot scripts
Avoid scripting pitfalls

The companion CD includes a fully searchable eBook and sample scripts.

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About the Author

Ed Wilson is a well-known scripting expert who delivers popular scripting workshops to Microsoft customers and employees worldwide. He's written several books on Windows scripting, including Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step by Step and Microsoft VBScript Step by Step. Ed is a senior consultant at Microsoft Corporation.

Series: IT Best Practices - Microsoft Press
Paperback: 752 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (December 26, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735626464
ISBN-13: 978-0735626461
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Average Customer Review: 9 customer reviews
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John Bailey

PowerShell Newbie

October 2, 2013

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Great place to start. I have been using PowerShell over the last couple years with out having a fundamental understanding of the syntax. This book got me up to speed and increased my confidence and understanding 10 fold.

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J. Hartsock

Excellent for learning PowerShell

May 5, 2014

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Excellent for learning PowerShell.

Ed Wilson is the 'Scripting Guy' and an expert on PowerShell.

Earlier version of PowerShell but the concepts still apply.

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Gary J. Timmons

Lots of helpful info

December 5, 2012

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I was suprised at how much good information this book has to offer. So whether you are new to Powershell or have been using Powershell since it's creation I recommend this book.

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shiv

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December 16, 2011

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Ed Wilson IS the scripting guy for crying out loud. i recommend this book and also check out the Microsoft scripting site for tips and information, the forums are awesome.

The book is a helpful resource, i'd recommend it.

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Lukas

Excelent service and very good conditions of product

September 23, 2012

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Fully satisfied with the order and the product. It complies with what the description said, and the status of the book was excelent. I'd fully recommend it.

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Absolutely packed with useful information. Not just for sysadmins

March 4, 2010

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Windows Powershell is still a relatively new language although more and more system administrators are now looking into it. Previously administrators either had the choice of VBScript or straight command line batch files/scripts which were either fairly limiting in what they could do or were fairly complex in how to actually do things. Powershell now gives administrators the power and flexibility of the .net framework as well as being quite easy to write extremely powerful scripts. With the power and flexibility that Powershell gives administrators comes a responsibility however.

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices assumes that you already have an understanding of Powershell, it's not a book on learning Powershell. The introductory chapters however do give you a brief overview of what you need to run Powershell in your environment and goes through the installation and configuration process before delving into some of the powerful capabilities that Powershell allows administrators including how to access and use various native Win32 COM objects like the Win32_Process classes.

Any administrator will sooner or later need to work with ADSI, the active directory service Interfaces and therefore a chapter has been dedicated to dealing with ADSI through Powershell, from creating users and groups to creating computer accounts and exporting statistics on your active directory environment to spreadsheets for reporting.

The book is divided into 5 main sections. The main sections are an introduction to Powershell, Planning, Designing, Testing and Deploying and finally Optimizing your cmdlets and scripts. Each section is split into chapters detailing specific parts of the overall section theme, for example under Planning there are chapters on identifying scripting opportunities, configuring your scripting environment, avoiding scripting pitfalls etc. Although this is a best practices book, there are numerous examples within each chapter showing how to best take advantage of Powershell 2 and numerous sidebars giving additional information, anecdotes or highlighting particularly important areas.

The appendixes in the book are crammed full of information from listing out all the included cmdlets that ship with Powershell 2 and a brief description of each to listing important and useful classes that you may need to work with from the .Net Framework, COM objects and WMI objects.

Weighing in at a tad over 700 pages, this is a hefty tomb chock full of useful advice, tips and tricks and information to let you take full advantage of Powershell 2. Although aimed mainly at system administrators, developers will find a lot of useful information contained within these pages and can start writing scripts to help automate some of their daily activities. Sometimes the writing can feel a little disjointed however this does not detract from an overall excellent book.

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Thomas F. Lee

A great PowerShell V2 book

February 20, 2013

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Ed Wilson, aka Microsoft's The Scripting Guy, has written a number of PowerShell books (for MS Press). This book, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices, is one I've been slowly reading through. Although this book is a couple of years old, the advice and guidance it contains is still excellent.

The book is divided up into 5 sections: Introduction, Planning, Designing, Testing and Deploying, Optimizing. In effect, the book is divided around the scripting lifecycle. The Planning section looks at identifying the opportunities for scripting within your organisation. The Designing section shows you how to design scripts that meet your business needs based on the features of PowerShell V2. As I said the book is based on V2 - but there area number of features that, at least in my experience, a lot of users simply do not know. The fourth section of this book covers both testing (something every script needs!) and deployment (how your users get your scripts). The final section looks at optimising your scripts.

The book, like many MS Press books, contain side bars from folks in the industry. These sidebars provide the voice of experience and give weight to the ideas Ed is promoting. I like these as they provide counterpoint to the book itself.

This is not an easy book to just skim through. Ed writes for adults, and the examples are rich - it took me literally months to finish reading this as I read a little of the book each night. I found that I had to read some pages several times to enable me to distill the key points the book is making.

If you are new to PowerShell, then this would be a good book to read as it provides great background to PowerShell V2 as well a wealth of scripts you could use in your environment. If you have PowerShell skills, then this book can give you new perspectives on PowerShell in the enterprise as well as show you a number of tricks you can leverage in your own code.

I give this book 5 stars!

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Zsoldier

Great Book for those into PS2.0

September 13, 2010

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Just when I thought I was getting better @ Powershell, this book has much more to offer and keeps
me in line w/ better scripting practices. Examples are top notch and explanations couldn't be
simpler.

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