About this Book

This is a PowerShell book for administrators. It’ll show you how to use PowerShell v1, PowerShell v2, and the PowerShell functionality introduced with products such as SQL Server, Exchange, and Windows Server 2008 R2. Third-party additions will also be used where appropriate. We’ll see problems solved using scripts in version 1 with reference to cmdlets that were introduced in version 2. This is a deliberate decision to ensure that the book has the widest possible scope. PowerShell v1 isn’t going to disappear overnight and we need to be able to work across both versions in the near future.

I’ve aimed at covering the breadth of PowerShell, in terms of showing the number of different aspects of the environment we can control, ...

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