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PowerShell Deep Dives

EARLY ACCESS EDITION
Edited by Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic

MEAP Began: December 2012
Softbound print: May 2013 (est.) | 425 pages
ISBN: 9781617291319

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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources

Table of Contents         Resources 
PART 1 POWERSHELL ADMINISTRATION
  1. Diagnosing and troubleshooting PowerShell remoting - FREE
  2. CIM Sessions
  3. Collecting and Analyzing Performance Counter Data - AVAILABLE
  4. TCP Port Communication with PowerShell - AVAILABLE
  5. Managing Systems Through the Keyhole - AVAILABLE
  6. Using PowerShell to Audit User Logon Events - AVAILABLE
  7. Managing and administering Certification Authority database with Windows PowerShell - AVAILABLE
  8. Using PowerShell to Reduce Active Directory Token Bloat - AVAILABLE

PART 2 POWERSHELL SCRIPTING
  9. The 10 Commandments of PowerShell Scripting - AVAILABLE
10. Avoiding the Pipeline - AVAILABLE
11. A Template for Handling and Reporting Errors - AVAILABLE
12. Tips and Tricks for creating complex or advanced HTML reports with PowerShell - AVAILABLE
13. Using and "abusing" dynamic parameters - AVAILABLE
14. PowerShell Type Formatting - AVAILABLE
15. Scalable Scripting for Large Data Sets: Pipeline & Database Techniques - AVAILABLE
16. Build your own WMI based cmdlets - AVAILABLE
17. Turning Command Line Tools into PowerShell Tools - AVAILABLE

PART 3 POWERSHELL FOR DEVELOPERS
18. Using Source Control Software with PowerShell
19. Inline .NET Code
20. PowerShell and XML: Better Together
21. Adding Automatic Remoting to Your Advanced Functions or Cmdlets
22. Taming Software Builds (and Other Complicated Processes) with Psake

PART 4 POWERSHELL PLATFORMS
23. PowerShell and the SQL Server Provider
24. Creating Flexible Subscriptions in SSRS
25. PowerShell and SMO
26. Provisioning web servers and websites with PowerShell
27. WSUS Configuration and Reporting Using PowerShell
28. Active Directory Group Management Application
 

DESCRIPTION

Here's your chance to learn from the best in the business. PowerShell Deep Dives is a trove of essential techniques, practical guidance, and the expert insights you earn only through years of experience. Editors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic hand-picked the 29 chapters in the books four parts: Administration, Scripting, Development, and Platforms.

What's inside

Whether you're just getting started with PowerShell or you already use it daily, you'll find yourself returning to this book over and over.

About the Authors

Editors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic are joined by PowerShell experts Don Jones, Arnaud Petitjean, Boe Prox, Bartek Bielawski, Mike Robbins, Vadims Podans, Ashley McGlone, James O'Neill, Jeff Wouters, Jonathan Medd, Adam Driscoll, Trevor Sullivan, Josh Gavant, Karl Prosser, Jim Christopher, Ben Miller, Donabel Santos, Robert C. Cain, Jason Helmick, Matthew Reynolds, and Chris Bellée.

About the Early Access Version

This Early Access version of PowerShell Deep Dives enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online

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