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Practical and precise, this hands-on guide with ready answers is designed for IT professionals working with Microsoft products, whether for on-premises, hybrid or cloud support. Inside, you'll find expert insights, tips, tricks and workarounds that will show you how to make the most of Windows PowerShell in the shortest amount of time possible. During the course of reading this book, you will master a number of complex topics, techniques, commands and functions.
This book focuses on administration tasks, including:
Using PowerShell to manage Windows roles and features
Inventorying and evaluating computers using scripting
Working with PowerShell drives, directories and files
Reading and writing file contents
Getting and setting security descriptors
Creating access rules and taking ownership
Configuring file and directory auditing
Navigating the Windows Registry
Creating and managing registry keys
Comparing registry keys
Viewing and filtering event logs
Setting event log options
Writing custom events
Managing the state of system services
Configuring service options, such as logon and recovery
Joining computers to a domain
Renaming computers
Restarting or shutting down computers remotely
Enabling or disabling system restore
Creating and using checkpoints
Recovering from restore points
Examining running processes
Analyzing computer performance
Monitoring resource usage
Windows PowerShell 6: Essentials for Administration can be used with the companion book, Windows PowerShell 6: IT Pro Solutions
Author: William Jr. Stanek, William Stanek
ISBN-10: 1545087105
ISBN-13: 9781545087107
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2017
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.61d
An avid outdoorsman, William enjoys hiking, spelunking, and trekking in search of adventure. So if he's not writing or lecturing, William's probably out enjoying the great outdoors or at the least, a backyard barbeque.
William Stanek Jr. began his tech career as an intern at Stanek & Associates in 2007 and is currently working as a development and engineering lead for the company. While most high schoolers were out enjoying spring break and summer vacations, Will worked as an assistant on the publishing side of the business, before moving over to the technical side of the business during his college years at University of Washington.
As a technologist, Will provided support, technical review, and made other contributions to a myriad of books written by William R. Stanek Sr. between 2010 and 2015. Since 2015 Will's direct written contributions to over a dozen books earned him cover credits as a contributor. Will is co-author of Windows PowerShell: Essentials, IIS 10: Essentials and several other forthcoming books.
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