PowerShell is part of nearly everything a Windows administrator touches,and the soon-to-be-released version 3 adds even more powerful features.With PowerShell, almost every aspect of Windows systems and serverscan be securely and efficiently automated. Designed to provide the knowhowneeded to master PowerShell, this book goes beyond the basics andoffers the deep knowledge and insight needed to tackle any task.PowerShell in Depth is a book that will be used again and again. Each ofthe 40 chapters is short, concise, to-the-point, and focused on a specificarea of PowerShell. Written by three seasoned PowerShell experts, everytechnique has been thoroughly tested. With this book in hand, readers willsave hours of time and effort while consistently and quickly creatingproduction-quality, maintainable scripts. AUDIENCEThis book is written for advanced Windows PowerShell users who haveat least some scripting background. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGYPowerShell is an automation engine for Windows systems. It is beingbuilt into all major Microsoft products and many third party products.PowerShell allows for the automations of day to day administration tasksand is a must learn technology for administrators.

Author Biography

Don Jones is one of the world's best-known proponents of PowerShell andadministrative automation. Richard Siddaway has 22 years of experience working with Microsofttechnologies as an analyst-programmer, server administration, support, DBAand architect. Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience asan IT consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies.All three are repeat Microsoft MVPs, and collectively they've authored nearlythree dozen books on PowerShell and Windows administration.