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Microsoft® Windows PowerShell™ Step By Step (Step by Step Developer) 1st Edition

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  • Series: Step by Step Developer
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (May 16, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0735623953
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735623958
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,649,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 starsShort Read For Absolute Beginners
By Striker Fired on April 17, 2011
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I have many other books written by this author, who is amazing and it is clearly not his best work. The audience for this book are Windows Server Administrators with less than two years of experience or Windows PC Operating System enthusiasts wanting to play around with PowerShell. For the less experienced audienct, the book is very good.

Reading the book will determine whether or not you want to learn more about PowerShell or not. If you want to use PowerShell further or learn more about programming or scripting, find other appropriate learning materials and give the book away to another friend that may want to play with powershell.

This is not a good reference, so don't buy it to get code examples or to keep as a syntax or usage reference.

I suspect the author was pressure to get this book in print very quickly to have at least one Microsoft Press publication on the topic very early on in the first release of PowerShell.
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4.0 out of 5 starsFull of promise, but unable to deliver
By G. Boulton on October 15, 2007
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This book, a svelte 296 pages, plus CD-ROM, should be viewed in the same vein as the O'Reilly "... In A Nutshell" series: It's full of good information, but it doesn't quite take the one extra step to answer the question that's at the back of your mind: "But how do I use it to do XYZ?".

Case in point: it will tell you how to get information back from the system, but not necessarily how to pull out the one specific piece of data you're after, so that it can be processed in a script. (A couple of minutes of trial-and-error resolved that quandary.) Disclaimer: I skimmed through a few pages, concentrating on an area that's of immediate interest, so a note advising how to extra the single point of data might or might not have been buried in some text elsewhere.

This is the type of book where you look up the basics of the information you want, then go to another book to get the rest of the information (background, caveats, usage, etc) that will be required to implement the command successfully.

One major problem with this book, though, is that it is riddled with typos ("CDROMg", "Alapha computer") which may be off-putting to some users. (For the most part, scripts appeared not to have many typos, but the accompanying text is full of them.)

I gave it the benefit of the doubt, in awarding it 4 stars. 3.5 would have been more appropriate. I'm shopping for another PowerShell book now...
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4.0 out of 5 starsGreat read for new to Powershell
By Gary J. Timmons on December 5, 2012
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I am new to Powershell and all I can say is this book is a great read if you are just getting into powershell.
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