Windows PowerShell Self-Study Training Kit

650 pages, 135,000 words... 2 Full-length Personal Training Guides in 1 Convenient Kit!

Designed for anyone who wants to learn Windows PowerShell. Inside, you'll find comprehensive overviews, step-by-step procedures, frequently used tasks, documented examples, and much more. One of the goals is to keep the content so concise that the training kit remains compact and easy to navigate while at the same time ensuring that this training kit is packed with as much information as possible--making it a valuable resource.

After reading this training kit, you’ll have a better understanding of using Windows PowerShell to work with and manage Windows. Techniques for working at the prompt and using scripts are covered extensively. Take control of Windows and Windows Server today using PowerShell!

Includes the full contents of:

Windows PowerShell: The Personal Trainer
Windows PowerShell for Administration: The Personal Trainer

Windows PowerShell Self-Study Training Kit starts by teaching you how to:

Streamline daily tasks using cmdlets
Initialize the scripting environment
Format output and use output streams
Extend Windows PowerShell
Use sessions and remoting
Execute remote commands and schedule jobs
Manage computers using scripts
Validate PowerShell requirements while scripting
Use conditional statements to control script execution
Use control loops to execute commands repeatedly
Record PowerShell sessions using transcripts
Manage blocks of commands
More, more, more

Then Windows PowerShell Self-Study Training Kit shows you how to:

Manage system configuration
Gather system information
Inventory and evaluate computers
Work with files, directories and drives
Configure security permissions and auditing
Configure event logging
Write custom events
Manage configuration of system services
Create and use restore points
Manage computer accounts and join computers to domains
Manage running processes and services
Monitor system performance
Resolve performance issues
More, more, more