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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Ecrofirt on January 22, 2009, 06:56:44 PM

Title: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: Ecrofirt on January 22, 2009, 06:56:44 PM

My boss just bought me two PowerShell books so I can get out of the VBScript dark ages. We're making the switch to Exchange 2007 soon, and I'm ­uber excited about being able to script some good Exchange and Active Directory shit.

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For reference, here's the books he got me:
Windows PowerShell in Action (http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Action-Bruce-Payette/dp/1932394907/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232667681&sr=8-1) by Bruce Payette

• 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. The book enables you to get the most out of the PowerShell environment. Using many examples, both small and large, this book illustrates the features of the language and environment and shows how to compose those features into solutions, quickly and effectively.

Windows PowerShell Unleashed: Second Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Unleashed-Tyson-Kopczynski/dp/0672329883/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232667681&sr=8-11) by Tyson Kopczynski, Pete Handley, and Marco Shaw

• The authors begin by systematically illuminating PowerShell’s core concepts and techniques, helping you leverage whatever Windows scripting experience you may already have. Next, using complete, easy-to-adapt examples, they show how to use PowerShell to manage file systems, permissions, the Registry, WMI objects, Active Directory, Exchange Server, and many other elements of the Windows environment.

(What's nice about this is that it's got a lot of real-world examples done in PowerShell 2.0)


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Title: Re: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: T234 on January 22, 2009, 07:09:14 PM

Sounds like some shit I need to learn.

Title: Re: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 22, 2009, 09:40:49 PM

yup, powershell will make many an it professional mighty valuable in the future, because so few can actually be bothered to learn and master it. automation skills separate the it schlubs from the gods.

:rock a few good men :rock

Title: Re: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 22, 2009, 09:42:56 PM

i've been bugging the IT staff here to learn powershell for half a year now  :-\

Title: Re: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on January 22, 2009, 11:31:05 PM

And I was just about to pick up C# and VB.NET  :'(

Title: Re: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: Cormacaroni on January 23, 2009, 01:48:03 AM

I thought this was some awesome new metal band. Fuck.

Title: Re: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: drozmight on January 23, 2009, 03:25:58 AM

damn straight... I love it.

Title: Re: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: Tauntaun on January 23, 2009, 09:37:24 AM

Quote from: Cormacaroni on January 23, 2009, 01:48:03 AM

I thought this was some awesome new metal band. Fuck.

Me too.   :'(  I was hoping it'd be a power metal band singing about TMNT.  :rock

Title: Re: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: Barry Egan on January 23, 2009, 10:48:21 AM

Ecro, just because you have Power Shell doesn't mean you're too good to use our :rock smileys, does it?   :-[

Title: Re: :HEADBANG PowerShell :HEADBANG2
Post by: Ecrofirt on January 23, 2009, 11:47:01 AM

Quote from: Chipopo on January 23, 2009, 10:48:21 AM

Ecro, just because you have Power Shell doesn't mean you're too good to use our :rock smileys, does it?   :-[

Shit I spent 20 minutes googling because I didn't realize we had :­rock! It doesn't show up in my [more] list of smileys.