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Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration with Windows Powershell 2.0
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First published May 4, 2011
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June 19, 2012
Not perfect, but damned good. Author Matthew Hester has a great command of both PowerShell and Windows Server 2008 R2 and the book is laid out in an easy and obvious format for the reader. Many readers will not read the entire book, I certainly haven't, but that's not the point of books in this genre. The point is whether or not you can find the information you need with as little searching and fussing as possible.
To that end, Hester provides a very succinct introduction to PowerShell and how to use it, assuming the reader has little to know knowledge to begin with. He then progresses through the more common administration tasks and on to those that are less-used or more complicated. In my opinion, you should always automate routine tasks and Hester does a very good job of explaining how to do this. Where falls short, if anywhere, is in automating tasks that are so infrequent that no administrator could possibly remember the process of the top of their head. My opinion is that these tasks are essential to automate as much as possible, especially in a multi-admin environment where the administrator with the knowledge may be on vacation. But I'm not sure that any book can provide the knowledge needed for this to just any reader.
Overall, a book that will remain on my bookshelf as a reference for several years. And I'm a guaranteed buyer of the next version, With Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell 3.0.
To that end, Hester provides a very succinct introduction to PowerShell and how to use it, assuming the reader has little to know knowledge to begin with. He then progresses through the more common administration tasks and on to those that are less-used or more complicated. In my opinion, you should always automate routine tasks and Hester does a very good job of explaining how to do this. Where falls short, if anywhere, is in automating tasks that are so infrequent that no administrator could possibly remember the process of the top of their head. My opinion is that these tasks are essential to automate as much as possible, especially in a multi-admin environment where the administrator with the knowledge may be on vacation. But I'm not sure that any book can provide the knowledge needed for this to just any reader.
Overall, a book that will remain on my bookshelf as a reference for several years. And I'm a guaranteed buyer of the next version, With Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell 3.0.
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