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Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3
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Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3 |
Author: Lee Holmes
Published: 2007-10-23 |
List price: $49.99
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Terrific Reference
I've never read this book. It is after all a "cookbook".
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br /What I can say is that many times I've turned to this book when I needed some clue to solve a practical problem. Somehow I've always found what I needed. I just browse the table of contents for a likely section, go there, and find something that looks like what I'm trying to do.
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br /Contrast this with Bruce Payette's Windows PowerShell in Action. That's a great book to read through and get an in-depth understanding of PowerShell. It is horrible for finding practical answers.
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br /Note that I'm a software engineer and not an administrator. I have no idea how sections on Exchange and MOM are.
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br /Recommended.
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Feel The Power Of Microsoft Scripting!!!
With 'Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3' learn how the old way of writing scripts for Windows is in the past and it's better that way!
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br /PowerShell (released in 2006) is quite simply a new way of shell scripting for Windows that takes the old command way of doing things and injecting it with super steroids. By leveraging the power of .NET and giving the user a good way to use it via the command line, PowerShell is the end result. Everything that administrators or power users ever did before or wanted to do in Windows can now be done faster and better than before and this is the perfect guide to help you do the things that you never thought were possible before.
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br /Chapter Overview
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br /01. Intro to Windows PowerShell
br /02. Pipelines
br /03. Variables and Objects
br /04. Looping and Flow Control
br /05. Strings and Unstructured Text
br /06. Calculations and Math
br /07. Simple Files
br /08. Structured Files
br /09. Internet-Enabled Scripts
br /10. Code Reuse
br /11. Lists, Arrays, Hashtables
br /12. User Interaction
br /13. Tracing and Error Management
br /14. Environmental Awareness
br /15. Extending Windows PowerShell
br /16. Security and Script Signing
br /17. Files and Directories
br /18. Windows Registry
br /19. Comparing Data
br /20. Event Logs
br /21. Processes
br /22. System Services
br /23. Active Directory
br /24. Enterprise Computer Management
br /25. Manage and Exchange 2007 Server
br /26. Manage an Operations Manager 2007 Server
br / A. PowerShell Language and Environment
br / B. Regular Expression Reference
br / C. PowerShell Automatic Variables
br / D. Standard PowerShell Verbs
br / E. Selected .NET Classes and Their Uses
br / F. WMI Reference
br / G. Selected COM Objects and Their Uses
br / H. .NET String Formatting
br / I. .NET DateTime Formatting
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br /With around 270 recipes, this is a full reference. If you use PowerShell or are and admin that needs to learn it you would be wise to pick this book up and start using it, it's a great resource to have by your side.
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br /***** RECOMMENDED
 Wanted more on writing cmdlets, but pretty good anyway
I got this book to learn Powershell, but I'm most interested in writing Cmdlets. The first chapter is a great overview of what PowerShell can do, and the subsequent ones are what you'd expect (more detail, good examples, well chosen topics).
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br /I really wanted more on extending Powershell, but it's more meant as a user's guide, and it does a good job at that. I liked that when he shows how to do extend Powershell, he does it with csc instead of visual studio -- to show that you can easily do it with a simple editor if you don't have VS.
 Good powershell resource - not good for Exchange 2007 or MOM
Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3
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br /I bought this book for two reasons. 1) to get up to speed on powershell and various use cases. 2) to get up to speed on powershell with respect to Exchange specific tasks and MOM specific tasks.
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br /With respect to #1, it is an adequate book and I would give it 4 stars. With respect to #2, it is a dismal failure and I would be generous by giving it two stars. There are roughly 5 pages on both Exchange and MOM. You are better off using the help files or online docs.
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br /Summary statement: This is a good generic powershell book but is poor in its attempt to provide an adequate resource for the Exchange 2007 and MOM sections.
It's an excellent technical survey programmers will relish.
Lee Holmes' WINDOWS POWERSHELL COOKBOOK comes from a Powershell team developer who provides hundreds of tested recipes to get Microsoft's new tool working. Over 150 recipes combine with an introduction to the Windows PowerShell scripting language to make for an excellent 'cookbook' packed with code and discussions of how and why it works. It's an excellent technical survey programmers will relish.
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