James Petty

James Petty is currently the Director of Information Technology at TextRequest. He is a four-time awardee of the Microsoft MVP award. In a dedicated capacity, he also assumes the role of volunteer CEO at DevOps Collective Inc., a nonprofit organization operating within technology education. The organization’s primary focus revolves around PowerShell, automation, and DevOps. It has garnered recognition for providing an array of free online resources, notably PowerShell.org.

At the core of James’s passion lies automation, where he adeptly wields tools such as PowerShell, Azure, and all facets of Windows Server environments. His prowess in this domain has been honed over more than a decade of service as an infrastructure administrator, catering to businesses spanning a diverse range of sizes.

James has woven his life in the tranquil environs outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he resides with his cherished wife, daughters, two dogs, and two cats.

books by James Petty

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition
  • March 2024
  • ISBN 9781633438989
  • 336 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / System Programming / Scripting Languages

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition is a hands-on introduction to PowerShell automation and toolbuilding. Updated for the latest version of PowerShell, this thoroughly revised bestseller teaches you how to write efficient scripts, find and squash bugs, and organize your tools into libraries. Along the way, you’ll even pick up tips for securing and managing Linux and macOS systems.

Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition
  • March 2022
  • ISBN 9781617296963
  • 360 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Complex Chinese, Russian
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / System Programming / PowerShell

Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition is a new edition of the bestseller that introduced PowerShell to over 100,000 readers. With bite-sized lessons and hands-on exercises, this amazing book guides you from your first command to writing and debugging reusable scripts for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Set aside just an hour a day and you’ll soon be tackling increasingly complex automation tasks with PowerShell.