Our book will address the weaknesses in competitors—we´ll have many real-world examples, content for both power users and developers, and more accessible scenarios
The PowerShell market is expanding, and the tool´s inclusion with Windows Server 2008 will increase its popularity still more
Our author has a reasonably strong blog platform and contacts within the Powershell team at Microsoft
Hristo Deshev is a group product manager for Telerik, a leading vendor of ASP.NET controls (Telerik.com). He has been working on component development for the past several years, focusing on creating rich, highly interactive Ajax solutions. A major goal of his and his team is "taming web development" applying agile software engineering practices to create robust solutions targeting all modern web browsers and supporting multiple ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET versions. You can reach Hristo via e-mail at hristo.deshev@telerik.com and on his blog at http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/twisted_asp_net.
Here is your best companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers. Inside this book, you´ll discover the object-oriented features of the shell and how they help in extracting and manipulating data. You´ll then learn how to use those features to solve real-world problems: manipulating files, working with text, monitoring systems, and performing operations over the network. In addition, you´ll find freely available tools and extensions that help you get results with Windows PowerShell fast.
|I remember the first time I got to play with Windows PowerShell—I had some spare time on my hands, and after reading a blog post, I quickly set off to download the unofficial pre-release bits that were available at the time. I originally had very low expectations about the tool—all I wanted was a shell that is up to par with its UNIX cousins. Boy, was I wrong! The moment I learned about object pipelines, I knew this tool was going to change the way I think about automating tasks on Windows. Fast forward a couple of months, and here I am, so much in love with Power- Shell that I even wrote a whopping 400-page book about it. Why Another Book on Windows PowerShell? As much as I like PowerShell, its plain-console looks make it very easy for people to dismiss it without really seeing what lies beneath the surface. I feel it is still largely undiscovered—I know many professionals who have yet to try it out. When administrators see PowerShell for the first time, many simply shrug, assuming it´s just another version of the primitive command prompt we inherited from DOS.|
Here is an ideal companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers. The book shows how Powershell integrates with the outside world. It offers examples dealing with other programs, the OS, and the network as well as introduces free and open-source tools and extensions that will help readers get results with Windows PowerShell fast.
Pro Windows PowerShell is ideal for professionals who handle repetitive tasks. It shows how PowerShell can helpillegalscript most of those tasks and reduce their burden. The book contains examples on automating typical system administration tasks: configuration, monitoring, network queries, text manipulation, and file operations. The ideas presented will be beneficial to power users needing a better shell and an automation environment, system and network administrators looking to streamline their daily activities, and software developers wishing to optimize their build and deploy process.
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Inside this book, you'll discover the object-oriented features of the shell and how they help in extracting and manipulating data. You'll then learn how to use those features to solve real-world problems: manipulating files, working with text, monitoring systems, and performing operations over the network.
Here is an ideal companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers. The book shows how Powershell integrates with the outside world. It offers examples dealing with other programs, the OS, and the network.
Windows power users have always envied their friends running UNIX machines for the ease of automation that they enjoy. The traditional Windows command-line shell, cmd.exe, has never been up to par with shells like bash or tcsh, especially when it comes to text processing and process automation.
Windows PowerShell changes all that. This next-generation shell is also a full-blownillegalscripting environment with a real programming language that allows users to access every part of their operating system. Files, registry entries, and COM and .NET objects are all supported by PowerShell, which makes manipulating them a breeze.
Pro Windows PowerShell will show you how to use all this power in your own work. You'll discover the object-oriented features of the shell and how they help in extracting and manipulating data. You'll then learn how to use those features to solve real-world problems: manipulating files, working with text, monitoring systems, and performing operations over the network. The book serves as not only a tutorial, but also a reference: the "Real World" part is structured so that it can be read nonlinearly and used as a reference or a cookbook. And you'll find freely available tools and extensions that will help you do things even faster.
Pro Windows PowerShell is your best companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers you.
Objects and Object Types.- Controlling Execution Flow.- The Object Pipeline.- Working withillegalscript Blocks.- Working with Functions.- Command Aliases.- Providers.-illegalscript Files.- Error Handling and Debugging.- Signingillegalscripts.- The Shell Environment and Its Configuration.- Extending the Type System.- Getting Help.- Taming Processes and Services.- Input and Output.- Monitoring Your System.- PowerShell and the World Wide Web.- Sending E-mail.- Talking to COM Objects.- Managing Windows with WMI.- PowerShell Community Extensions.- PSEventing: .NET Events in PowerShell.- Enhancing Tab Completion with PowerTab.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Objects and Object Types.- Controlling Execution Flow.- The Object Pipeline.- Working withillegalscript Blocks.- Working with Functions.- Command Aliases.- Providers.-illegalscript Files.- Error Handling and Debugging.- Signingillegalscripts.- The Shell Environment and Its Configuration.- Extending the Type System.- Getting Help.- Taming Processes and Services.- Input and Output.- Monitoring Your System.- PowerShell and the World Wide Web.- Sending E-mail.- Talking to COM Objects.- Managing Windows with WMI.- PowerShell Community Extensions.- PSEventing: .NET Events in PowerShell.- Enhancing Tab Completion with PowerTab.
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Windows power users have always envied their friends running UNIX machines for the ease of automation that they enjoy. The traditional Windows command¿line shell, cmd.exe, has never been up to par with shells like bash or tcsh, especially when it comes to text processing and process automation.
Windows PowerShell changes all that. This next¿generation shell is also a full¿blownillegalscripting environment with a real programming language that allows users to access every part of their operating system. Files, registry entries, and COM and .NET objects are all supported by PowerShell, which makes manipulating them a breeze.
Pro Windows PowerShell will show you how to use all this power in your own work. You'll discover the object¿oriented features of the shell and how they help in extracting and manipulating data. You'll then learn how to use those features to solve real¿world problems: manipulating files, working with text, monitoring systems, and performing operations over the network. The book serves as not only a tutorial, but also a reference: the ¿Real World¿ part is structured so that it can be read nonlinearly and used as a reference or a cookbook. And you'll find freely available tools and extensions that will help you do things even faster.
Pro Windows PowerShell is your best companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers you.
Here is an ideal companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers. The book shows how Powershell integrates with the outside world. It offers examples dealing with other programs, the OS, and the network as well as introduces free and open-source tools and extensions that will help readers get results with Windows PowerShell fast.
Pro Windows PowerShell is ideal for professionals who handle repetitive tasks. It shows how PowerShell can helpillegalscript most of those tasks and reduce their burden. The book contains examples on automating typical system administration tasks: configuration, monitoring, network queries, text manipulation, and file operations. The ideas presented will be beneficial to power users needing a better shell and an automation environment, system and network administrators looking to streamline their daily activities, and software developers wishing to optimize their build and deploy process.
