Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices

Description

Apply best practices for automating system administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and optimize your operational efficiency and results. This guide captures the field-tested tips, real-world lessons, and candid advice of practitioners across the range of business and technical scenarios and across the scripting life cycle. Discover how to:

* Take advantage of new features and cmdlets in Windows PowerShell 2.0
* Plan scripting usage scenarios and define standards Deploy Windows PowerShell 2.0 to desktops and servers
* Configure scripting environments
* Optimize remote scripting capabilities
* Work with Active Directory(r) and WMI
* Design functions and modules
* Optimize input and output
* Handle errors
* Document scripts
* Test and troubleshoot scripts
* Avoid scripting pitfalls

The companion CD includes a fully searchable eBook and sample scripts.

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CONTENTS:

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbout the Companion MediaPart I: Introduction
* Chapter 1: Assessing the Scripting Environment
* Chapter 2: Survey of Windows PowerShell Capabilities
* Chapter 3: Survey of Active Directory Capabilities
* Chapter 4: User ManagementPart II: Planning
* Chapter 5: Identifying Scripting Opportunities
* Chapter 6: Configuring the Script Environment
* Chapter 7: Avoiding Scripting Pitfalls
* Chapter 8: Tracking Scripting OpportunitiesPart III: Designing
* Chapter 9: Designing Functions
* Chapter 10: Designing Help for Scripts
* Chapter 11: Planning for Modules
* Chapter 12: Handling Input and Output
* Chapter 13: Handling ErrorsPart IV: Testing and Deploying
* Chapter 14: Testing Scripts
* Chapter 15: Running ScriptsPart V: Optimizing
* Chapter 16: Logging Results
* Chapter 17: Troubleshooting ScriptsWindows PowerShell 2.0 cmdletsCommon Windows PowerShell VerbsUseful COM ObjectsUseful WMI ClassesUseful Microsoft .NET Framework ClassesWMI Error Messages