Windows Powershell In Action

Windows PowerShell in Action was written by Bruce Payette, one of the founding members of the Windows PowerShell team, co-designer of the PowerShell language and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation. This book is a tutorial for sysadmins and developers introducing the PowerShell language and its environment. It shows you how to build scripts and utilities to automate system tasks or create powerful system management tools to handle the day-to-day tasks that drive a Windows administrator's life. It's rich in interesting examples that will spark your imagination. The book covers batch scripting and string processing, COM, WMI, and even .NET and WinForms programming.· Welcome to PowerShell· The basics· Working with types· Operators and expressions· Advanced operators and variables· Flow control in scripts· Functions and scripts· Scriptblocks and objects· Errors, exceptions, and script debugging· Processing text, files, and XML· Getting fancy-.NET and WinForms· Windows objects: COM and WMI· Security, security, security