Windows PowerShellTM 2.0: Best Practices

by Ed Wilson

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.

Genres: Technology, Technical

752 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Frank Boucher · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are a .Net developer and you still don’t know PowerShell or don’t know why you should consider PowerShell than this book is not for you… You should read some Introduction books or post THEN read this book.
This book is all about best practices. It will help you to structures your code or your library of scripts. That way, you will be able to understand and found and reuse all of it. Whether to do something in a build or to deploy something in Windows Azure or even just to quickly do a repetitive task this book will help to do it. A book to keep nearby.