Overview

Here is an ideal companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers. The book shows how Powershell integrates with the outside world. It offers examples dealing with other programs, the OS, and the network as well as introduces free and open-source tools and extensions that will help readers get results with Windows PowerShell fast. Pro Windows PowerShell is ideal for professionals who handle repetitive tasks. It shows how PowerShell can help script most of those tasks and reduce their burden. The book contains examples on automating typical system administration tasks: configuration, monitoring, network queries, text manipulation, and file operations. The ideas presented will be beneficial to power users needing a better shell and an automation environment, system and network administrators looking to streamline their daily activities, and software developers wishing to optimize their build and deploy process.