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Author: Ed Goad
ISBN : 1849689466
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About the Author
Ed Goad
Ed Goad is a systems architect who has been working in various roles in the IT field for 16 years. He first became interested in scripting and automation when presented with a task to uninstall software from over 1,000 systems with limited time and resources. He has worked with scripting and automation on multiple platforms and languages including PowerShell, VBscript, C#, and BASH scripting.
Ed currently holds multiple Microsoft certifications, most recently including the Microsoft Certified IT Professional – Enterprise Administrator. Additional non-Microsoft certifications include VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), EMC Proven Professional, Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE), and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).
Ed is currently on a sabbatical and volunteering full time at the Amor Fe y Esperanza school in Honduras(http://www.afehonduras.org). There he is teaching computer and math classes to the kids who live and work in the garbage dump outside of the capital city of Tegucigalpa.
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- Paperback: 372 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 26, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849689466
- ISBN-13: 978-1849689465
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.4 x 9.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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The first chapter of this book starts off with a brief overview of PowerShell scripting. It's a nice overview/refresher of scripting techniques (writing functions/modules, security and code signing, data validation and passing variables, etc), but the way it's written it definitely assumes you're already familiar with the language. If you just need to brush up or get a quick primer on some of these topics, it works well for that use. If you expect it to teach you PowerShell, you'll probably end up disappointed and confused.
The remaining chapters each focus on a particular 'area of emphasis' and provide a series of recipes on different tasks related to that topic. For example, Chapter 2 is titled "Managing Windows Network Services with PowerShell", and covers configuring a server for static networking, and deploying a basic Active Directory infrastructure with domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, PKI, as well as creating user accounts and reporting on users and computers. Combine this with the information on Hyper-V in Chapter 4 and you should be well on your way to having a set of scripts to automatically build and deploy a virtual test environment.
The remaining chapters follow the same format, and cover IIS, storage, network shares, WSUS, printing, troubleshooting, performance, inventorying your servers, and backing up your servers. One of the things I really like about this book is how each recipe is formatted. Each recipe is subdivided into three sections:
1) Provides a quick overview of the task at hand as well as any specific infrastructure/environment requirements or assumptions that are used.