Windows PowerShell 2.0. Best Practices + Code

Apply best practices for automating system administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and optimize your operational efficiency and results. This guide captures the field-tested tips, real-world lessons, and candid advice of practitioners across the range of business and technical scenarios and across the scripting life cycle. Discover how to: Take advantage of new features and cmdlets in Windows PowerShell 2.0 Plan scripting usage scenarios and define standards Deploy Windows PowerShell 2.0 to desktops and servers Configure scripting environments Optimize remote scripting capabilities Work with Active Directory and WMI Design functions and modules Optimize input and output Handle errors Document scripts Test and troubleshoot scripts Avoid scripting pitfalls The companion CD includes a fully searchable eBook and sample scripts. For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

Apply best practices for automating system administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and optimize your operational efficiency and results. This guide captures the field-tested tips, real-world lessons, and candid advice of practitioners across the range of business and technical scenarios and across the scripting life cycle. Discover how to:

• Take advantage of new features and cmdlets in Windows PowerShell 2.0
• Plan scripting usage scenarios and define standards Deploy Windows PowerShell 2.0 to desktops and servers
• Configure scripting environments
• Optimize remote scripting capabilities
• Work with Active Directory(r) and WMI
• Design functions and modules
• Optimize input and output
• Handle errors
• Document scripts
• Test and troubleshoot scripts
• Avoid scripting pitfalls

The companion CD includes a fully searchable eBook and sample scripts.

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via OReilly Medias Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit OReillys web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

Microsoft Press, 2010. - 716 p. - ISBN 0735626464, 978-0735626461 Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices is aimed at experienced IT professionals including IT architects, engineers, administrators, and support professionals who are working in large organizations and in the enterprise. IT pros who work in smaller companies would also benefit from most of the guidelines concerning the structuring of code, many of the tips and tricks, and much of the how to sections regarding common everyday problems. The audience is expected to have obtained the level of Windows PowerShell understanding presented in Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step by Step (Microsoft Press, 2007). The audience is assumed to know and understand the basics of Windows PowerShell: fundamental looping constructs, basic decision-making code blocks, and a rudimentary understanding of the use of cmdlets, which is the type of information they would obtain in a three-day class. In this book, there are two level-setting chapters as well as references back to topics covered in more detail in Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step by Step. This book is a 300-level book, but the planning and managing section will be very useful to IT managers seeking guidance on establishing scripting procedures for an enterprise organization. Apply best practices for automating system administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and optimize your operational efficiency and results. This guide captures the field-tested tips, real-world lessons, and candid advice of practitioners across the range of business and technical scenarios and across the scripting life cycle. Discover how The companion CD includes a fully searchable eBook and sample scripts. A Note Regarding the CD or The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com. Helps you to apply best practices for automating system administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and optimize your operational efficiency and results. This guide captures the field-tested tips, real-world lessons, and advice of practitioners across the range of business and technical scenarios and across the scripting life cycle.