"Superb...full of real-world examples, this book is an IT specialist's best friend." - Olivier Deveault, Voxco Group
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. This updated edition covers PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, PowerShell v3 and later, and includes v5 features like PowerShellGet.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

PowerShell is both a scripting language and an administrative shell that lets you control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands interactively and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint, as well as online services like Azure and Office 365.

About the Book

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. Just set aside one hour a day - lunchtime would be perfect - for a month, and you'll be automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought possible. This updated edition covers PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, PowerShell v3 and later, and includes v5 features like PowerShellGet.

What's Inside

Learn PowerShell from the beginning, no experience required!

Covers PowerShell v3 and up, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 and later

Each lesson takes you an hour or less

About the Reader

Experience with Windows administration is helpful. No programming or scripting experience needed.

About the Author

Veteran PowerShell MVPs Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks bring years as successful trainers to this concise, easy-to-follow book.

Table of Contents

Before you begin

Meet PowerShell

Using the help system

Running commands

Working with providers

The pipeline: connecting commands

Adding commands

Objects: data by another name

The pipeline, deeper

Formatting - and why it's done on the right

Filtering and comparisons

A practical interlude

Remote control: one-to-one, and one-to-many

Using Windows Management Instrumentation and CIM

Multitasking with background jobs

Working with many objects, one at a time

Security alert!

Variables: a place to store your stuff

Input and output

Sessions: remote control with less work

You call this scripting?

Improving your parameterized script

Advanced remoting configuration

Using regular expressions to parse text files

Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques

Using someone else's script

Never the end

PowerShell cheat sheet