PowerShell Deep Dives

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 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

1. Diagnosing and troubleshooting PowerShell remoting
2. CIM sessions 22
3. Collecting and analyzing performance counter data
4. TCP port communications with PowerShell
5. Managing systems through a keyhole
6. Using PowerShell to audit user logon events
7. Managing and administering a certification authority database with PowerShell
8. Using PowerShell to reduce Active Directory token bloat

PART 2 POWERSHELL SCRIPTING

9. The 10 PowerShell scripting commandments
10. Avoiding the pipeline
11. A template for handling and reporting errors
12. Tips and tricks for creating complex or advanced HTML reports with PowerShell
13. Using and "abusing" dynamic parameters
14. PowerShell type formatting
15. Scalable scripting for large data sets: pipeline and database techniques
16. Building your own WMI-based cmdlets
17. Turning command-line tools into PowerShell tools

PART 3 POWERSHELL FOR DEVELOPERS

18. Using Source Control Software with PowerShell
19. Inline .NET code
20. PowerShell and XML: better together
21. Adding automatic remoting to advanced functions and cmdlets
22. Taming software builds (and other complicated processes) with psake

PART 4 POWERSHELL PLATFORMS

23. PowerShell and the SQL Server provider
24. Creating flexible subscriptions in SSRS
25. Inventory database table statistics using PowerShell SQL Server Management Objects
26. WSUS and PowerShell
27. Provisioning IIS web servers and sites with PowerShell
28. Active Directory Group Management application

PowerShell is a powerful scripting language that has transformed the way administrators and developers interact with Windows. It enables automation of the day to day administrative tasks in the Windows system and is being built into all major Microsoft products, as well as many third party products.

PowerShell Deep Dives gives readers a chance to learn from the best in the business. It's a treasure trove of essential techniques, practical guidance, and offers expert insights earned only through years of experience. Editors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic hand-picked the 29 chapters in the books four parts: Administration, Scripting, Development, and Platforms. Readers will find themselves returning to this book again and again.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP with 20 years of IT experience. Jeff works as an independent consultant, trainer, and author and he has taught PowerShell to IT Professionals all over the world. He writes the popular Prof.PowerShell column for MCPMag.com and is a weekly contributor to the Petri IT Knowledgebase. Jeff blogs frequently on PowerShell related topics at http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog.

Richard Siddaway is a veteran IT architect, server administrator, support engineer, and PowerShell MVP. He's the author of PowerShell in Practice, published in 2010 by Manning.