By Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks
Sign up for the vanguard of home windows administrative scripting with Microsoft PowerShell, the recent, finished, constant, and strong scripting shell for Microsoft home windows and the home windows Server approach. Microsoft's dedicated to construction destiny graphical management instruments on best of PowerShell, that means PowerShell will supply the quickest, least difficult, and so much entire approach to automate any home windows administrative job. This new moment version of home windows PowerShell: TFM is greater than 25% better and comprises greater than 60% revised and re-written fabric, making it the main complete and authoritative home windows PowerShell publication at the moment to be had. you will not just examine what PowerShell is and the way it really works, yet you will learn how to take PowerShell extra utilizing customized style extensions, simple cmdlet improvement, customized formatting perspectives, .NET Framework improvement, graphical conversation containers, and masses, even more. a very revised first half is helping you start with PowerShell quicker than ever, with motives in keeping with dwell classification deliveries to greater than 1,000 scholars; insurance of PowerShell's scripting features has been significantly improved and rewritten to make the topic either more uncomplicated and extra appropriate to real-world situations. No different PowerShell booklet presents this a lot assurance, with such transparent reasons from recipients of Microsoft's home windows PowerShell MVP award! Authors Don Jones (Managing home windows with VBScript and WMI, complex VBScript for home windows directors) and Jeffery Hicks (WSH and VBScript middle: TFM, complicated VBScript for home windows directors) train you PowerShell scripting and management from the floor up: you don't want any earlier PowerShell, VBScript, or the other scripting or programming event. you will find out about cmdlets, snap-ins, scripts, PowerShell's defense version, 3rd get together extensions and barely enough of the .NET Framework to completely leverage PowerShell and develop into a extra effective administrator. Written in an easygoing, informal type with lots of functional and "real-world" examples, you will discover your self generating beneficial PowerShell scripts after the second one bankruptcy!
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Seriously. PS C:\> Get-Process | Stop-Process The first cmdlet there retrieves all running process, and then pipes, or sends, them to the second cmdlet, which will stop them all one at a time. The result is that your computer crashes. Whoops. Now consider this safer alternative: PS C:\> Get-Process | Stop-Process -whatif You can run the above safely because it won’t do anything. Instead, Stop-Process simply shows you what it would have done, if you’d let it. This is an excellent way of testing a command line to see what would happen, without actually letting anything happen that might get you into trouble with the boss.
Then, it displays the path of the executable that the process is running by using the Path property of the process object. exe The other cmdlet used to work with processes is Stop-Process. It can also accept a process name or ID, or you can simply give it a process object. ” In the following example, we’re continuing to use the $psh variable we created in the previous example. As you can see, we choose not to stop the process after all. But by using the -confirm parameter, we can see what the Stop-Process cmdlet was doing: PS C:\test> stop-process -inputobject $psh -confirm Confirm Are you sure you want to perform this action?
So, why can’t all of Windows’ hierarchical stores be navigated in the same fashion? More Stores than Just the File System Windows has several different hierarchical stores aside from the file system. The registry, for example, looks a lot like the file system, don’t you think? It has folders (registry keys) and files (registry settings), and the files have contents (the values within settings). The Certificate Store in Windows is similar, too. So is Active Directory, for that matter. 0 doesn’t ship with a way to make Active Directory look like a file system).