Using a step-by-step process, this book leads you through error handling, debugging, function creation, module manifests, and other key topics, providing complete real-world examples each step of the way. This edition has been formatted to provide the best possible experience for reading code listings in an ebook format, given the limitations of ebook readers.

Windows PowerShell Fundamentals training, taught by PowerShell MVP Jeffrey Hicks, provides an incredibly comprehensive, yet easy to understand overview of PowerShell Fundamentals. Learn how to stop using the GUI as a crutch and "automate" your IT career.

PowerShell v3 Essentials is designed for the IT Pro with little to no previous PowerShell experience. The goal of the course is to provi
de enough training in PowerShell fundamentals, language and syntax so that you can be productive and effective in a very short time. The course has many live demonstrations of PowerShell in action from using WMI to query remote machines for management information, running long running tasks as background jobs, creating pipelined expressions and creating simple PowerShell scripts and functions.

Take control of SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell!
Administer SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell with help from this practical guide. PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators explains how to configure and manage the latest version of the powerful enterprise collaboration platform. Find out how to automate the installation process, construct dynamic SharePoint environments, create and extend Web applications, and manage service applications. Backup, security, and performance enhancement techniques are also fully covered in this comprehensive resource.

Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems.

This Cookbook by Windows PowerShell team developer Lee Holmes provides hundreds of tested scripts that you can use right away to get Microsoft's new tool working for you.

Summary

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.

Utilize the power of Microsoft's powerful scripting engine to automate database tasks with Oracle from PowerShell
Overview
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Load Oracle Data Access components and connect to Oracle databases.
Retrieve, format, filter, and export data.
Execute database procedures and modify database objects
Build Oracle script libraries and run automated, unattended scripts

Sharpen your PowerShell skills and get a jumpstart on the features of version 3.0 in this advanced PowerShell training by MVP Jeff Hicks. This course will give you a thorough overview of shell, command, and remoting enhancements, as well as hands-on demos and sample commands for using PowerShell ISE. Automate more tasks and become even more efficient by learning all the impressive features in PowerShell v3.

Learn Windows PowerShell 3 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. This totally revised second edition covers new PowerShell 3 features designed for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

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.