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 ins 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 ins 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 Authors Editors 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 authority database
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 advanced HTML reports
with PowerShell
* Using and "abusing" dynamic parameters
* PowerShell type formatting
* Scalable scripting for large data sets: pipeline and 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 functions and 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 PowerShell SQL Server
Management Objects
* WSUS and PowerShell
* Provisioning IIS web servers and sites with PowerShell
* Active Directory Group Management application
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