PowerShell Deep Dives

**Summary**

Here's your chance to learn from the best in the business. *PowerShell Deep Dives* is a trove of essential techniques, practical guidance, and the expert insights you earn only through years of experience. Editors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic hand-picked the 28 chapters in the book's four parts: Administration, Scripting, Development, and Platforms.

**About the Technology**

PowerShell has permanently changed Windows administration. This powerful scripting and automation tool allows you to control virtually every aspect of Windows and most Microsoft servers like IIS and SQL Server. Here's your chance to learn from the best in the business.

**About this Book**

*PowerShell Deep Dives* is a trove of essential techniques and practical guidance. It is rich with insights from experts who won them through years of experience. The book's 28 chapters, grouped in four parts (Administration, Scripting, Development, and Platforms), were hand-picked by four section editors: Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic.

Whether you're just getting started with PowerShell or you already use it daily, you'll find yourself returning to this book over and over.

**What's Inside**

Managing systems through a keyhole

The Ten Commandments of PowerShell scripting

Scalable scripting for large datasets

Adding automatic remoting

Provisioning web servers and websites automatically to IIS 8

And 23 more fantastic chapters

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

**About the Authors** Editors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic are joined by PowerShell experts Chris Bellee, Bartek Bielawski, Robert C. Cain, Jim Christopher, Adam Driscoll, Josh Gavant, Jason Helmick, Don Jones, Ashley McGlone, Jonathan Medd, Ben Miller, James O'Neill, Arnaud Petitjean, Vadims Podans, Karl Prosser, Boe Prox, Matthew Reynolds, Mike Robbins, Donabel Santos, Will Steele, Trevor Sullivan, and Jeff Wouters.

**Table of Contents**

PART 1 POWERSHELL ADMINISTRATION

Diagnosing and troubleshooting PowerShell remoting

CIM sessions 22

Collecting and analyzing performance counter data

TCP port communications with PowerShell

Managing systems through a keyhole

Using PowerShell to audit user logon events

Managing and administering a certification authoritydatabase with PowerShell

Using PowerShell to reduce Active Directory token bloat

PART 2 POWERSHELL SCRIPTING

The 10 PowerShell scripting commandments

Avoiding the pipeline

A template for handling and reporting errors

Tips and tricks for creating complex or advancedHTML reports with PowerShell

Using and "abusing" dynamic parameters

PowerShell type formatting

Scalable scripting for large data sets: pipelineand database techniques

Building your own WMI-based cmdlets

Turning command-line tools into PowerShell tools

PART 3 POWERSHELL FOR DEVELOPERS

Using Source Control Software with PowerShell

Inline .NET code

PowerShell and XML: better together

Adding automatic remoting to advanced functionsand cmdlets

Taming software builds (and other complicated processes)with psake

PART 4 POWERSHELL PLATFORMS

PowerShell and the SQL Server provider

Creating flexible subscriptions in SSRS

Inventory database table statistics using PowerShellSQL Server Management Objects

WSUS and PowerShell

Provisioning IIS web servers and sites with PowerShell

Active Directory Group Management application