Product Description
by Hristo Deshev (Author)
Here is an ideal companion to the capabilities and power that PowerShell offers. The book shows how Powershell integrates with the outside world. It offers examples dealing with other programs, the OS, and the network as well as introduces free and open-source tools and extensions that will help readers get results with Windows PowerShell fast.
Pro Windows PowerShell is ideal for professionals who handle repetitive tasks. It shows how PowerShell can help script most of those tasks and reduce their burden. The book contains examples on automating typical system administration tasks: configuration, monitoring, network queries, text manipulation, and file operations. The ideas presented will be beneficial to power users needing a better shell and an automation environment, system and network administrators looking to streamline their daily activities, and software developers wishing to optimize their build and deploy process.
Author Biography
Hristo Deshev is a group product manager for Telerik, a leading vendor of ASP.NET controls (Telerik.com). He has been working on component development for the past several years, focusing on creating rich, highly interactive Ajax solutions. A major goal of his and his team is "taming web development" applying agile software engineering practices to create robust solutions targeting all modern web browsers and supporting multiple ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET versions. You can reach Hristo via e-mail at hristo.deshev@telerik.com and on his blog at http: //blogs.telerik.com/blogs/twisted_asp_net.
