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Instant Windows PowerShell

By : Vinith Menon
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Instant Windows PowerShell

By: Vinith Menon

Overview of this book

Windows PowerShell comprises numerous major features that extend its use, advance its usability, and allow you to control and manage Windows-based environments.Windows PowerShell is backward-compatible. Cmdlets, providers, modules, snap-ins, scripts, functions, and profiles that were designed for Windows PowerShell 2.0 work in Windows PowerShell 3.0 without any changes.A practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear step-by-step exercises which will help you take advantage of the real power that is Windows PowerShell.Starting by listing the New Features in PowerShell 3.0, this book goes on to break down the mystery and confusion that surrounds which feature to use and when. It will take you through a number of clear, practical sections that will help you to take advantage of PowerShell, easily and quickly.You will also learn how to use PowerShell for file and folder management in a Windows Server Environment. The book will also also show you how to use PowerShell Web Access for secure Windows Management anywhere, any time, on any device.Learn how to secure and sign the scripts you write using the script signing feature in PowerShell, understand how to use PowerShell to secure and administer a PKI environment, and discover how to use a BPA module to analyze the security integrity of a system as per Microsoft requirements. If you want to take your first step into PowerShell 3.0 to manage your Windows environment, then this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Ravikanth Chaganti has more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry. At the beginning of his career, he worked at Wipro Infotech, managing Windows, Solaris servers, and Cisco network equipment. He currently works at Dell Inc. as a lead engineer in the SharePoint solutions group. As a part of his work, he authored several white papers on MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 that provide guidance on infrastructure elements of a SharePoint deployment. His work also involves performance testing and sizing of SharePoint workloads on Dell servers and storage.

He is passionate about automation and besides work, he regularly writes on his blog, http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog, about topics related to Windows PowerShell, Microsoft SharePoint, and Windows Server Virtualization.

In 2010, he received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Windows PowerShell. You can also hear him speak regularly at BITPro (http://bitpro.in) user group meetings and other in-person events at Bangalore, India.

Fabrice ZERROUKI is a senior Microsoft consultant and has over 15 years of experience in web hosting.

He is a Microsoft technologies specialist, and is passionate about all the new and powerful technologies, as well as open source. In 2013, he received the Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in Windows PowerShell Project management skills. He also holds the PRINCE2 certification (Foundation and Practitioner).