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Book Review: Windows PowerShell Cookbook

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According to Microsoft, Windows PowerShell is a "command line shell and scripting language helps IT professionals achieve greater control and productivity". I provided a link to the Windows Powershell page at Microsoft in this review for reference but if you are at all interested in this book, you probably already know the basics of PowerShell, what is it and, to some degree, what it can do. The question is then, does Lee Holmes provide the right "recipes" in his "cookbook" to help you get baking (or is it only half-baked)?

The first interesting thing I noticed was that, at Amazon, the subtitle for this book

is "for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM v3". On the book's cover, it doesn't

mention anything about this and just says, "The Complete Guide to Microsoft's New

Command Shell and Scripting Language". The back cover does mention that the

appendixes includes quick reference guides to ".NET, WMI, and COM objects" as

well as stating, "Those who administer Microsoft's Exchange 2007 and System Center

Operations Manager (formerly MOM) will find separate chapters devoted to these

servers". That sets up a certain expectation in terms of specializing PowerShell

for these specific technologies.

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Comments (8)

tuxchick ·
and Unix, BSD, MS-DOS 5.....pour a few more billions into it, Billsteve, someday you might make it! Today, a command shell and a scripting language.. tomorrow, who knows- the world awaits with bated breath!
gus3 ·
OT:

TC, thanks for using "bated" instead of "baited."
dinotrac ·
>TC, thanks for using "bated" instead of "baited."

When I wake up in the morning, I tend to have baited breath.
Bob_Robertson ·
Ooooo! Gramer flames! Can speling flames be far behined?

:^)

Quality use of language is always a pleasure to read.

dinotrac ·
>Ooooo! Gramer flames! Can speling flames be far behined?

Tori Spelling's grandma burned her house down?
DarrenR114 ·
Quoting:>Ooooo! Gramer flames! Can speling flames be far behined?

Tori Spelling's grandma burned her house down?


Hopefully the B&B will be next ... ¨Inn Love¨ .... blech!!!
happyfeet ·
@dino:

Little pieces of shrimp hanging out of your mouth?
dinotrac ·
>Little pieces of shrimp hanging out of your mouth?

Something akin to that olfactory impression.

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