Vbscript, Wmi, and ADSI Unleashed: Using Vbscript, Wmi, and ADSI to Automate Windows Administration

Don Jones

Sams Publishing

Living on Acreages - What Do you Need to Know

Natalie Camroll

Midwest Plan Service

Layman's Commentary on Revelation: A Guide to Understanding End-Time Mysteries

21st Century Press

Book by Jones, Don, Hicks, Jeffery

Windows Powershell 2.0: TFM

Computers & Technology

Programming Languages

SAPIEN Technologies

Memories, Poems, & Essays

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Open Door Publishers, Inc.

Windows PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking

Programming

lulu.com

Go beyond the PowerShell command line and become a Toolmaker! Learn the techniques, patterns, and practices that go into professional, native-style scripting in the PowerShell environment. PowerShell MVPs Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks - authors of some of the first and most-popular PowerShell books ever - walk you through a guided tour of toolmaking, including advanced topics like debugging, help authoring, type extensions, and more. They introduce you to key open-source tools like Platyps and Pester, helping you become a more professional and well-rounded toolmaker. They even dive into data connectivity, helping you use some of the most common data storage mechanisms and formats in your scripts. Everything you need is right here, including hands-on exercises, review questions, and more. Start becoming a PowerShell Toolmaker today!

The PowerShell Scripting & Toolmaking Book: First Edition

Jeffrey Hicks

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Summary
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for administrators. 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. You'll start with the basics—what is PowerShell and what can you do with it. Then, you'll move systematically through the techniques and features you'll use to make your job easier and your day shorter.
 Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. 
About the Technology
PowerShell is both a language and an administrative shell with which you can control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands immediately, and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint.
About the Book
This book is a tutorial designed for busy administrators. Just set aside one hour a day for a month and you'll learn all the practical techniques you need to make your job easier and your day shorter. This totally revised book covers new PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and later. This edition is appropriate for PowerShell version 3 and later.
Experience with Windows administration is helpful. No programming experience is assumed.
What's Inside
<ul>
<li>Learn PowerShell from the beginning—no experience required!</li>
<li>Covers PowerShell 3 and later running on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008R2, and later</li>
<li>Each lesson should take you one hour or less</li>
</ul>
About the Authors
Powershell MVPs Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks bring years as successful trainers to this concise, easy-to-follow book. Don blogs at PowerShell.com and you can find Jeff at jdhitsolutions.com/blog.
Table of Contents
<ol>
<li>Before you begin</li>
<li>Meet PowerShell</li>
<li>Using the help system</li>
<li>Running commands</li>
<li>Working with providers</li>
<li>The pipeline: connecting commands</li>
<li>Adding commands</li>
<li>Objects: data by another name</li>
<li>The pipeline, deeper</li>
<li>Formatting—and why it's done on the right</li>
<li>Filtering and comparisons</li>
<li>A practical interlude</li>
<li>Remote control: one to one, and one to many</li>
<li>Using Windows Management Instrumentation</li>
<li>Multitasking with background jobs</li>
<li>Working with many objects, one at a time</li>
<li>Security alert!</li>
<li>Variables: a place to store your stuff</li>
<li>Input and output</li>
<li>Sessions: remote control with less work</li>
<li>You call this scripting?</li>
<li>Improving your parameterized script</li>
<li>Advanced remoting configuration</li>
<li>Using regular expressions to parse text files</li>
<li>Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques</li>
<li>Using someone else's script</li>
<li>Never the end</li>
<li>PowerShell cheat sheet</li>
</ol>

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches

Jeffery Hicks

Networking & Cloud Computing

Manning Pubns Co

Summary
Packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for each self-contained lesson. You'll move quickly through core scripting concepts and start working on four real-world, practical tools. Each chapter adds more functionality, including custom formatting, error handling, parameterized input, input validation, help files and documentation, and more.
About this Book
You don't have to be a software developer to build PowerShell tools. With this book, a PowerShell user is a step away from becoming a proficient toolmaker.Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking in just one hour a day. It's packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning. It's an easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, helpfiles, and more.
 Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. 
What's Inside
<ul>
<li>Build your own administrative tools</li>
<li>Learn by doing with hands-on labs</li>
<li>Make scripts that feel like native PowerShell cmdlets</li>
</ul>
This book does not assume you are a programmer. Experience using PowerShell as a command-line interface is helpful but not required.
About the Authors
Don Jones is a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer. Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP and an independent consultant, trainer, and author. Don and Jeff coauthored Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition (Manning 2012) and PowerShell in Depth (Manning 2013).
Table of ContentsPART 1 INTRODUCTION TO TOOLMAKING<ol>
<li>Before you begin</li>
<li>PowerShell scripting overview</li>
<li>PowerShell's scripting language</li>
<li>Simple scripts and functions</li>
<li>Scope</li>PART 2 BUILDING AN INVENTORY TOOL<li>Tool design guidelines</li>
<li>Advanced functions, part 1</li>
<li>Advanced functions, part 2</li>
<li>Writing help</li>
<li>Error handling</li>
<li>Debugging techniques</li>
<li>Creating custom format views</li>
<li>Script and manifest modules</li>
<li>Adding database access</li>
<li>Interlude: creating a new tool 157</li>PART 3 ADVANCED TOOLMAKING TECHNIQUES<li>Making tools that make changes</li>
<li>Creating a custom type extension</li>
<li>Creating PowerShell workflows</li>
<li>Troubleshooting pipeline input</li>
<li>Using object hierarchies for complex output</li>
<li>Globalizing a function</li>
<li>Crossing the line: utilizing the .NET Framework</li>PART 4 CREATING TOOLS FOR DELEGATED ADMINISTRATION<li>Creating a GUI tool, part 1: the GUI</li>
<li>Creating a GUI tool, part 2: the code</li>
<li>Creating a GUI tool, part 3: the output</li>
<li>Creating proxy functions</li>
<li>Setting up constrained removing endpoints</li>
<li>Never the end</li>
</ol>

Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches

Manning

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition Write and organize scripts and tools

James Petty

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

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