Pro Windows PowerShell [Paperback]

Here is your best companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers. Inside this book, youll discover the object-oriented features of the shell and how they help in extracting and manipulating data. Youll 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, youll find freely available tools and extensions that help you get results with Windows PowerShell fast.

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.

I remember the first time I got to play with Windows PowerShellI 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 toolall 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 undiscoveredI know many professionals who have yet to try it out. When administrators see PowerShell for the first time, many simply shrug, assuming its just another version of the primitive command prompt we inherited from DOS.A table of contents is not available for this title.Hristo Deshev is a group product manager for Telerik, a leading vendor of ASP.NET controls (Telerik.com). lc+