Windows PowerShell Unleashed, Rough Cuts, 2nd Edition

Description

• Copyright 2009
• Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
• Pages: 528
• Edition: 2nd

• Rough Cuts
• ISBN-10: 0-7686-8720-9
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7686-8720-0

This is a working draft of a pre-release book. It is available before the published date as part of the Rough Cuts service.

PowerShell gives Windows administrators immense power to automate and customize virtually any administrative task–saving time, increasing productivity, and giving you unprecedented flexibility. PowerShell 2.0 adds important new features that offer even greater control over Windows environments. Windows PowerShell Unleashed will not only give you deep mastery over PowerShell but also a greater understanding of the features being introduced in PowerShell 2.0–and show you how to use it to solve your challenges in your production environment.

The authors begin by systematically illuminating PowerShell’s core concepts and techniques, helping you leverage whatever Windows scripting experience you may already have. Next, using complete, easy-to-adapt examples, they show how to use PowerShell to manage file systems, permissions, the Registry, WMI objects, Active Directory, Exchange Server, and many other elements of the Windows environment.

More than half of this edition’s material and examples have been completely rewritten for PowerShell 2.0, and the authors have added seven entirely new chapters–covering security, PowerShell application development, Systems Center Operations Manager 2007, and much more. Whatever Windows systems you manage, Windows PowerShell Unleashed contains the scripts and techniques you need to manage them far more effectively.

• Install, configure, and customize PowerShell 2.0 and master its command line interface
• Discover proven best practices for PowerShell scripting
• Make the most of PowerShell cmdlets–especially the new cmdlets included in PowerShell 2.0
• Leverage PowerShell’s deep .NET Framework integration
• Secure your scripts using code signing, execution policies, and PowerShell’s built-in security
• Use custom script functions to manage permissions more efficiently
• Control the registry locally and remotely and use PowerShell’s powerful new registry transactions
• Use PowerShell as a management interface
• Automate Exchange Server 2007 administrative tasks
• Automate the management of Microsoft’s new System Center Operations Manager 2007
• Preview the forthcoming Graphical PowerShell scripting environment
• Understand how to manage Active Directory using PowerShell
• Master using PowerShell with WMI
• Learn PowerShell 2.0 remoting

Download all examples and source code presented in this book from informit.com/title/9780672329883.

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Introduction     1

Part I     Introduction to PowerShell

1     Introduction to Shells     7

What Is a Shell?     7

Basic Shell Use     8

Basic Shell Scripts     11

A Shell History      15

Enter PowerShell     16

New Capabilities in PowerShell 2.0 CTP2     18

Summary     19

2     Basic PowerShell Concepts     21

Getting Started     21

PowerShell 1.0 RTW     22

PowerShell 2.0 CTP2     23

Before Installing PowerShell 2.0 CTP2     23

Downloading and Installing PowerShell 2.0     25

Understanding the Command-Line Interface (CLI)      28

Navigating the CLI     30

Tab Key Auto-Completion in PowerShell     30

Understanding Cmdlets     32

Common Parameters     33

Getting Help     34

Get-Help     34

Cmdlet Help Topics     36

Get-Command     36

Understanding Variables     39

Built-In Variables     40

Understanding Aliases     42

Discovering Alias Cmdlets     43

Creating Persistent Aliases     44

Creating Your First Script     45

Summary     47

3     Advanced PowerShell Concepts     49

Working with the .NET Framework     51

Using the New-Object Cmdlet     53

Understanding Assemblies     54

Understanding Reflection     56

Understanding the Pipeline     59

Powerful One-Liners     63

The Extended Type System (ETS)      65

Understanding the Add-Member Cmdlet     67

Understanding the types.ps1xml File     68

Working with Types     68

Type Accelerators     71

Summary     72

4     Other Key PowerShell Concepts     73

Formatting Output     73

The Formatting Cmdlets &nbs

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