Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches

Name: Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches
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"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

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Intro
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition
Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks
Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
Author Online
About the Authors
Chapter 1. Before you begin
1.1. Why you can't afford to ignore PowerShell
1.1.1. Life without PowerShell
1.1.2. Life with PowerShell
1.2. And now, it's just "PowerShell"
1.3. Is this book for you?
1.4. How to use this book
1.4.1. The main chapters
1.4.2. Hands-on labs
1.4.3. Code samples
1.4.4. Supplementary materials
1.4.5. Further exploration
1.4.6. Above and beyond
1.5. Setting up your lab environment
1.6. Installing Windows PowerShell
1.7. Contacting us
1.8. Being immediately effective with PowerShell
Chapter 2. Meet PowerShell
2.1. Choose your weapon
2.1.1. The console window
2.1.2. The Integrated Scripting Environment
2.2. It's typing class all over again
2.3. Common points of confusion
2.4. What version is this?
2.5. Lab
Chapter 3. Using the help system
3.1. The help system: how you discover commands
3.2. Updatable help
3.3. Asking for help
3.4. Using help to find commands
3.5. Interpreting the help
3.5.1. Parameter sets and common parameters
3.5.2. Optional and mandatory parameters
3.5.3. Positional parameters
3.5.4. Parameter values
3.5.5. Finding command examples
3.6. Accessing "about" topics
3.7. Accessing online help
3.8. Lab
3.9. Lab answers
Chapter 4. Running commands
4.1. Not scripting, but running commands
4.2. The anatomy of a command
4.3. The cmdlet naming convention
4.4. Aliases: nicknames for commands
4.5. Taking shortcuts
4.5.1. Truncating parameter names
4.5.2. Using parameter name aliases
4.5.3. Using positional parameters
4.6. Cheating a bit: Show-Command
4.7. Support for external commands
4.8. Dealing with errors
4.9. Common points of confusion
4.9.1. Typing cmdlet names
4.9.2. Typing parameters
4.10. Lab
4.11 Lab Answers
Chapter 5. Working with providers
5.1. What are providers?
5.2. Understanding how the filesystem is organized
5.3. Understanding how the filesystem is like other data stores
5.4. Navigating the filesystem
5.5. Using wildcards and literal paths
5.6. Working with other providers
5.7. Lab
5.8. Further exploration
5.9. Lab answers
Chapter 6. The pipeline: connecting commands
6.1. Connecting one command to another: less work for you
6.2. Exporting to a CSV or an XML file
6.2.1. Exporting to CSV
6.2.2. Exporting to XML
6.2.3. Comparing files
6.3. Piping to a file or a printer
6.4. Converting to HTML
6.5. Using cmdlets that modify the system: killing processes and stopping services
6.6. Common points of confusion
6.7. Lab
6.8. Lab answers
Chapter 7. Adding commands
7.1. How one shell can do everything
7.2. About product-specific "management shells"
7.3. Extensions: finding and adding snap-ins
7.4. Extensions: finding and adding modules
7.5. Command conflicts and removing extensions
7.6. On non-Windows operating systems
7.7. Playing with a new module
7.8. Profile scripts: preloading extensions when the shell starts
7.9. Getting modules from the internet
7.10. Common points of confusion
7.11. Lab
7.12. Lab answers
Chapter 8. Objects: data by another name
8.1. What are objects?
8.2. Understanding why PowerShell uses objects
8.3. Discovering objects: Get-Member
8.4. Using object attributes, or properties
8.5. Using object actions, or methods
8.6. Sorting objects
8.7. Selecting the properties you want
8.8. Objects until the end
8.9. Common points of confusion
8.10. Lab
8.11. Lab answers
Chapter 9. The pipeline, deeper
9.1. The pipeline: enabling power with less typing
9.2. How PowerShell passes data down the pipeline
9.3. Plan A: pipeline input ByValue
9.4. Plan B: pipeline input ByPropertyName
9.5. When things don't line up: custom properties
9.6. Parenthetical commands
9.7. Extracting the value from a single property
9.8. Lab
9.9. Further exploration
9.10. Lab answers
Chapter 10. Formatting-and why it's done on the right
10.1. Formatting: making what you see prettier
10.2. Working with the default formatting
10.3. Formatting tables
10.4. Formatting lists
10.5. Formatting wide lists
10.6. Creating custom columns and list entries
10.7. Going out: to a file, a printer, or the host
10.8. Another out: GridViews
10.9. Common points of confusion
10.9.1. Always format right
10.9.2. One type of object at a time, please
10.10. Lab
10.11. Further exploration
10.12. Lab answers
Chapter 11. Filtering and comparisons
11.1. Making the shell give you just what you need
11.2. Filtering left
11.3. Using comparison operators
11.4. Filtering objects out of the pipeline
11.5. Using the iterative command-line model
11.6. Common points of confusion
11.6.1. Filter left, please
11.6.2. When $_ is allowed
11.7. Lab
11.8. Further exploration
11.9. Lab answers
Chapter 12. A practical interlude
12.1. Defining the task
12.2. Finding the commands
12.3. Learning to use the commands
12.4. Tips for teaching yourself
12.5. Lab
12.6. Lab answer
Chapter 13. Remote control: one-to-one, and one-to-many
13.1. The idea behind remote PowerShell
13.2. WinRM overview
13.3. Using Enter-PSSession and Exit-PSSession for one-to-one remoting
13.4. Using Invoke-Command for one-to-many remoting
13.5. Differences between remote and local commands
13.5.1. Invoke-Command vs. -computerName
13.5.2. Local vs. remote processing
13.5.3. Deserialized objects
13.6. But wait, there's more
13.7. Remote options
13.8. Common points of confusion
13.9. Lab
13.10. Further exploration
13.11. Lab answers
Chapter 14. Using Windows Management Instrumentation and CIM
14.1. WMI essentials
14.2. The bad news about WMI
14.3. Exploring WMI
14.4. Choose your weapon: WMI or CIM
14.5. Using Get-WmiObject
14.6. Using Get-CimInstance
14.7. WMI documentation
14.8. Common points of confusion
14.9. Lab
14.10. Further exploration
14.11. Lab answers
Chapter 15. Multitasking with background jobs
15.1. Making PowerShell do multiple things at the same time
15.2. Synchronous vs. asynchronous
15.3. Creating a local job
15.4. WMI, as a job
15.5. Remoting, as a job
15.6. Getting job results
15.7. Working with child jobs
15.8. Commands for managing jobs
15.9. Scheduled jobs
15.10. Common points of confusion
15.11. Lab
15.12. Lab answers
Chapter 16. Working with many objects, one at a time
16.1. Automation for mass management
16.2. The preferred way: "batch" cmdlets
16.3. The CIM/WMI way: invoking methods
16.4. The backup plan: enumerating objects
16.5. Common points of confusion
16.5.1. Which way is the right way?
16.5.2. WMI methods vs. cmdlets
16.5.3. Method documentation
16.5.4. ForEach-Object confusion
16.6. Lab
16.7. Lab answers
Chapter 17. Security alert!
17.1. Keeping the shell secure
17.2. Windows PowerShell security goals
17.3. Execution policy and code signing
17.3.1. Execution policy settings
17.3.2. Digital code signing
17.4. Other security measures
17.5. Other security holes?
17.6. Security recommendations
17.7. Lab
Chapter 18. Variables: a place to store your stuff
18.1. Introduction to variables
18.2. Storing values in variables
18.3. Using variables: fun tricks with quotes
18.4. Storing many objects in a variable
18.4.1. Working with single objects in a variable
18.4.2. Working with multiple objects in a variable
18.4.3. Other ways to work with multiple objects
18.4.4. Unrolling properties and methods in PowerShell v3
18.5. More tricks with double quotes
18.6. Declaring a variable's type
18.7. Commands for working with variables
18.8. Variable best practices
18.9. Common points of confusion
18.10. Lab
18.11. Further exploration
18.12. Lab answers
Chapter 19. Input and output
19.1. Prompting for, and displaying, information
19.2. Read-Host
19.3. Write-Host
19.4. Write-Output
19.5. Other ways to write
19.6. Lab
19.7. Further exploration
19.8. Lab answers
Chapter 20. Sessions: remote control with less work
20.1. Making PowerShell remoting a bit easier
20.2. Creating and using reusable sessions
20.3. Using sessions with Enter-PSSession
20.4. Using sessions with Invoke-Command
20.5. Implicit remoting: importing a session
20.6. Using disconnected sessions
20.7. Lab
20.8. Further exploration
20.9. Lab answers
Chapter 21. You call this scripting?
21.1. Not programming, more like batch files
21.2. Making commands repeatable
21.3. Parameterizing commands
21.4. Creating a parameterized script
21.5. Documenting your script
21.6. One script, one pipeline
21.7. A quick look at scope
21.8. Lab
21.9. Lab answer
Chapter 22. Improving your parameterized script
22.1. Starting point
22.2. Getting PowerShell to do the hard work
22.3. Making parameters mandatory
22.4. Adding parameter aliases
22.5. Validating parameter input
22.6. Adding the warm and fuzzies with verbose output
22.7. Lab
22.8. Lab answer
Chapter 23. Advanced remoting configuration
23.1. Using other endpoints
23.2. Creating custom endpoints
23.2.1. Creating the session configuration
23.2.2. Registering the session
23.3. Enabling multihop remoting
23.4. Digging deeper into remoting authentication
23.4.1. Defaults for mutual authentication
23.4.2. Mutual authentication via SSL
23.4.3. Mutual authentication via TrustedHosts
23.5. Lab
23.6. Lab answer
Chapter 24. Using regular expressions to parse text files
24.1. The purpose of regular expressions
24.2. A regex syntax primer
24.3. Using regex with -Match
24.4. Using regex with Select-String
24.5. Lab
24.6. Further exploration
24.7. Lab answers
Chapter 25. Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques
25.1. Profiles, prompts, and colors: customizing the shell
25.1.1. PowerShell profiles
25.1.2. Customizing the prompt
25.1.3. Tweaking colors
25.2. Operators: -as, -is, -replace, -join, -split, -in, -contains
25.2.1. -as and -is
25.2.2. -replace
25.2.3. -join and -split
25.2.4. -contains and -in
25.3. String manipulation
25.4. Date manipulation
25.5. Dealing with WMI dates
25.6. Setting default parameter values
25.7. Playing with script blocks
25.8. More tips, tricks, and techniques
Chapter 26. Using someone else's script
26.1. The script
26.2. It's a line-by-line examination
26.3. Lab
26.4. Lab answer
Chapter 27. Never the end
27.1. Ideas for further exploration
27.2. "Now that I've read the book, where do I start?"
27.3. Other resources you'll grow to love
Chapter 28. PowerShell cheat sheet
28.1. Punctuation
28.2. Help file
28.3. Operators
28.4. Custom property and column syntax
28.5. Pipeline parameter input
28.6. When to use $_
Appendix. Review labs
Review lab 1: chapters 1-8
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Review lab 2: chapters 1-14
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Review lab 3: chapters 1-19
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 5
Answers
Review Lab 1
Review Lab 2
Review Lab 3
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List of Tables
List of Listings

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