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Discover how scripting is different from command-line PowerShell, as you explore concrete hands-on examples in this handy guide. The book includes and expands on many of the techniques presented in Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches.

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

About the Technology

Automate it! With Microsoft's PowerShell language, you can write scripts to control nearly every aspect of Windows. Just master a few straightforward scripting skills, and you'll be able to eliminate repetitive manual tasks, create custom reusable tools, and build effective pipelines and workflows. Once you start scripting in PowerShell, you'll be amazed at how many opportunities you'll find to save time and effort.

About the Book

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches teaches you how to expand your command-line PowerShell skills into effective scripts and tools. In 27 bite-size lessons, you'll discover instantly useful techniques for writing efficient code, finding and squashing bugs, organizing your scripts into libraries, and much more. Advanced scripters will even learn to access the .NET Framework, store data long term, and create nice user interfaces.

What's Inside

  • Designing functions and scripts
  • Effective pipeline usage
  • Dealing with errors and bugs
  • Professional-grade scripting practices

About the Reader

Written for devs and IT pros comfortable with PowerShell and Windows.

About the Authors

Don Jones is a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer who has written dozens of books on information technology topics. Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP and an independent consultant, trainer, and author. Don and Jeff coauthored Manning's Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches, and PowerShell in Depth.

Table of Contents

  1. PART 1 - INTRODUCTION TO SCRIPTING

  2. Before you begin
  3. Setting up your scripting environment
  4. WWPD: what would PowerShell do?
  5. Review: parameter binding and the PowerShell pipeline
  6. Scripting language crash course
  7. The many forms of scripting (and which to use)
  8. Scripts and security

  9. PART 2 - BUILDING A POWERSHELL SCRIPT

  10. Always design first
  11. Avoiding bugs: start with a command
  12. Building a basic function and script module
  13. Going advanced with your function
  14. Objects: the best kind of output
  15. Using all the pipelines
  16. Simple help: making a comment
  17. Dealing with errors
  18. Filling out a manifest

  19. PART 3 - GROWN-UP SCRIPTING

  20. Changing your brain when it comes to scripting
  21. Professional-grade scripting
  22. An introduction to source control with git
  23. Pestering your script
  24. Signing your script
  25. Publishing your script

  26. PART 4 - ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

  27. Squashing bugs
  28. Making script output prettier
  29. Wrapping up the .NET Framework
  30. Storing data-not in Excel!
  31. Never the end

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  6. Language
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Don Jones is a Microsoft MVP, speaker, and trainer. He developed the Microsoft PowerShell courseware and has taught SQL Server, PowerShell, and other practical technologies to more than 20,000 IT pros. Don writes for TechNet Magazine and blogs for WindowsITPro.com. He is the creator of the Month of Lunches series that covers PowerShell, IIS, Active Directory, SCCM, SQL Server, and more.

Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP with 20 years of IT experience. Jeff works as an independent consultant, trainer, and author and he has taught PowerShell to IT Professionals all over the world. He writes the popular Prof.PowerShell column for MCPMag.com and is a weekly contributor to the Petri IT Knowledgebase. Jeff blogs frequently on PowerShell related topics at http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning Publications; 1st edition (November 28, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1617295094
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1617295096
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.32 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jeffery Hicks is an IT veteran with almost 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher and consultant. Jeff has taught and presented on PowerShell and the benefits of automation to IT Pros worldwide. He has authored and co-authored a number of books, writes for numerous online sites and print publications, is a contributing editor at Petri.com, a Pluralsight author, and a frequent speaker at technology conferences and user groups. You can keep up with Jeff on Twitter (http://twitter.com/JeffHicks) and on his blog (https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog).

His latest book is The PowerShell Practice Primer (https://leanpub.com/psprimer)

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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Excellent PowerShell book that comes with DRM-free eBook versions (Kindle, PDF, ePub)
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Excellent PowerShell book that comes with DRM-free eBook versions (Kindle, PDF, ePub)
I have been watching YouTube videos featuring Don Jones (one of the authors) with Jeffrey Snover (PowerShell inventor) over the years since PowerShell became mainstream with its DSC features. I have learned a lot from Don Jones. Seeing his name on a book gives me confidence that this book is written by someone who knows PowerShell better than most of us.Before ordering this book through Amazon Vine, I thought that this book was intended to be for beginners but after getting and reading a few chapters from this book, I can see that the target reader level is definitely not the beginner; the book is targetted for Intermediate-Advanced users of PowerShell.This is a great book for reference too. I used it to quickly brush up my knowledge of 'param' options within functions (Chapter 11). If you are one who learns by seeing code examples and some explanations along with it, this book is for you.*** Physical book includes DRM-free eBooks ***Whenever I buy books, one of the things I look for is whether or not the physical book comes with full access to eBooks in different formats (Kindle, PDF, etc.). This is very important for me because sometimes I do like to have a physical book in my hand to quickly skim through and discover different sections. I ultimately prefer the eBook version over physical books and it's good to know that if you purchase the physical book, Manning Publications offers DRM-free version of PDF, Kindle and ePub version of the book. This allows me to read the book on my Kindle or iPad/Android table.Overall, I really like this book. It delivers what it promises. This is a no-nonsense book if you are serious about learning some of the intermediate to advanced concepts in PowerShell.
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michael
5.0 out of 5 stars Take yourself to the next level and have fun doing it
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2017
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I'm only on chapter 3 and I'm already amazed between AutoLab and ISE being phased out. I read Powershell In A Month Of Lunches and Powershell Toolmaking In A Month Of Lunches. After those two books, I felt very good. I automate as many of my tasks as I possible can. With this book, I feel like it's going to take me to the next level. I feel that it's a v2 of Powershell Toolmaking In A Month Of Lunches. It is new and improved for sure. They're bringing in a lot of dev practices by using Git and VS.

A perfect example is AutoLab. I had NO idea about this. It's something that you can't really be randomly Googling stuff and see it pop up. That's why I love these books. Thank you Don and Jeffrey for this series of amazing content.
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Poole
5.0 out of 5 stars As to be expected
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2019
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Manning technical books are quality! The authors know how to teach. I learned so many new tips and the proper way to do things. You can get really creative in solving problems. This book delivers the advanced concepts, even for intermediate skilled scriptwriters, but in a way to build skills fast. Another go to book. I recommend this book as well as PowerShell in depth v2!
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Josh Perez
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply amazing
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2019
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I ordered this book last year. Recently ordered a replacement copy.

I had to learn PowerShell automation to overcome some challenges I was facing at work, and this book was my biggest help. I highly recommend this book.
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J P
4.0 out of 5 stars Just what I needed.
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021
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Just what I needed.
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Jason J. Abruzzo
5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I needed.
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2021
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Follow the book to the letter. You'll be glad you did in a month.
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Don J
5.0 out of 5 stars Good reference
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2019
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I'm in IT and this book is very handy. It does a great job of demonstrating and explaining.
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AJ
5.0 out of 5 stars You’re awesome! I always have fun reading your
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2018
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Don, You’re awesome! I always have fun reading your books
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timothy thomason
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommend to anyone
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2018
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Love it. So useful!
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Arlyd
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book but Read "Learn Powershell in a Month of Lunches" first
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2021
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Fantastic book which, if bought new, comes with a code allowing you download a digital version too.

The book, previously called "Learn Powershell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches" in older versions, is brilliantly written by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks, two heroes in the Powershell Community. They introduce you on how to create functions (chunks of code you can reuse), the mentality you should be adopting when writing code (Make a function do one thing but very well and then pipe them together if necessary) how you can chain these functions together, passing things down the pipeline, etc, etc. With this book you really do start to learn the steps to really make Powershell your ultimate weapon.

That being said, if you haven't already please pick up "Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches". Even if you think you can jump ahead, I would recommend against it. You are guarantee to learn something from that book and it really is a prerequisite to this. Don't skip ahead!
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Christian H.
4.0 out of 5 stars Not ideal for Software Devs
Reviewed in Germany on August 16, 2021
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I am a software developer, not an System Administrator. Some tasks as a software developer can be well automated by scripts.
I did not know Powershell. That's why I was looking for a book on scripting with PS that is not aimed atSystem Administrator.
The book teaches scripting with Powershell. I also learned a lot from it. However, the examples are mainly aimed at IT staff and were not always feasible for me, e.g. because I don't have a server at hand to configure it remotely.
Another point that would have prevented me from reading the book at first: At the beginning, some questions are asked, for which it is recommended to read another book as an introduction, if you cannot answer the questions. I could not answer the questions, but I could still follow the book very well.

All in all, I can only say: I can write PS scripts after reading it.
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ak
5.0 out of 5 stars Read page 4 "Is this book for you?" section
Reviewed in Canada on July 29, 2020
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Great book, exactly what I was looking for, with a caveat.

Bought it following recommendations of some random people on the Internet.
It would be nice to know up front this book is for the intermediate level, not the beginners.
I had to order the book mentioned in that section 4, the "Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches" one to fill the gaps in my knowledge of PS.

In any case I hope these two books will be enough for me at this moment.
Not a big deal, but kind a "oops! I've no idea what they're talking about!" moment.
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Andres Williams Herrera
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfecto
Reviewed in Spain on December 23, 2018
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Si quieres aprender PowerShell a fondo y de verdad los dos libros de Don Jones son los indicados
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Richard Langley
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2022
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This book is a must have for anyone wishing to learn Powershell .It has written examples of the format and use of the command let and actively encourages you to explore using the help files within the progam.
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