With PowerShell quickly becoming the de-facto standard for automation, on the Windows platform, it is becoming a necessity to learn and understand the language. Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Look will ensure that you have a great overview of the numerous new features and changes found in the most recent version of the language. Through simple examples and succinct chapters, this book will quickly bring readers up to speed with need to know information about the newest version of PowerShell.
Chapter 1, Find what you're looking for, covers the new Show-Command cmdlet, updatable help and the module auto-discovery feature.
Chapter 2, Usability Enhancements, looks at the enhancements to the Where-Object, ForEach-Object, Get-ChildItem, and tab expansion.
Chapter 3, Improved Administration, covers improvements to administration including scheduled jobs, improved remote sessions, and an enhanced Restart-Computer cmdlet.
Chapter 4, Windows Workflow in PowerShell, examines Windows Workflow and how it has been integrated into Windows PowerShell.
Chapter 5, Using the Common Informational Model, looks at the Common Informational Model and the host of new cmdlets that are available to manage Windows and non-Windows devices.
Chapter 6, New and Improved PowerShell Hosts, looks at the new PowerShell Web Access and the greatly enhanced PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment.
Chapter 7, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Modules and Cmdlets, looks at some of the interesting new modules and cmdlets found in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
This book requires that you have the Windows Management Framework (WMF) version 3 installed. WMF version 3 requires that you are running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2.
The final chapter in this book requires an installation of Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012. There are chapters within this book that show the use of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 but this is not required to take full advantage of this book.
This book is intended for IT administrators that are looking to quickly come up to speed on the new functionality found in PowerShell 3.0. Some PowerShell experience may be necessary to take full advantage of some of the topics covered in this book.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: The Show-Command is an interesting cmdlet to add to an until-now-command line-only shell.
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
PS C:\> Show-Command New-Item
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: When clicking on the Run button, the command is executed and output is not displayed in the user interface, but rather written to the console.
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