PowerShell in Depth is the kind of book you'll want open on your desk most of the time. With 40 short chapters, each focused on a specific area of PowerShell, you'll be able to find the answers you need quickly. Each chapter is concise and to-the-point, so you can spend less time reading and more time getting down to the business at hand. It was written by three seasoned PowerShell experts, and every technique has been thoroughly tested. With this book in hand, you'll be able to consistently and quickly produce production quality, maintainable scripts that will save you countless hours of time and effort.

About this Book
Organized into 40 concise chapters, PowerShell in Depth is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major shell technique, technology, and tactic is explained and demonstrated, providing a comprehensive reference to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by three experienced authors and PowerShell MVPs, this is the PowerShell book you'll keep next to your monitor—not on your bookshelf!

This book requires basic familiarity with PowerShell.

What's Inside

Covers PowerShell 3.0
Automating time-consuming tasks
Managing HTML and XML data
Background jobs and scheduling
PowerShell security
Packaging and deploying scripts
Standard scripting conventions
Using the .NET Framework in PowerShell scripts
Much more

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Authors
Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks, and Richard Siddaway are Microsoft MVPs who have collectively authored nearly three dozen books on PowerShell and Windows administration.

Table of Contents

PART 1: POWERSHELL FUNDAMENTALS
Introduction
PowerShell hosts
Using the PowerShell help system
The basics of PowerShell syntax
Working with PSSnapins and modules
Operators
Working with objects
The PowerShell pipeline
Formatting
PART 2: POWERSHELL MANAGEMENT
PowerShell Remoting
Background jobs and scheduling
Working with credentials
Regular expressions
Working with HTML and XML data
PSDrives and PSProviders
Variables, arrays, hash tables, and scriptblocks
PowerShell security
Advanced PowerShell syntax
PART 3: POWERSHELL SCRIPTING AND AUTOMATION
PowerShell's scripting language
Basic scripts and functions
Creating objects for output
Scope
PowerShell workflows
Advanced syntax for scripts and functions
Script modules and manifest modules
Custom formatting views
Custom type extensions
Data language and internationalization
Writing help
Error handling techniques
Debugging tools and techniques
Functions that work like cmdlets
Tips and tricks for creating reports
PART 4: ADVANCED POWERSHELL
Working with the Component Object Model (COM)
Working with .NET Framework objects
Accessing databases
Proxy functions
Building a GUI
WMI and CIM
Best practices