Get this Fast Start guide to quickly learn Windows PowerShell fundamentals. Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Windows PowerShell 4.0 are enhanced and extended editions of the original implementations of PowerShell. The changes are dramatic, and they improve both the performance capabilities of PowerShell and its versatility. You can do things with PowerShell 3.0 and PowerShell 4.0 that you simply could not do with earlier versions, and you can perform standard tasks in much more efficient ways than before. Regardless of whether you are an IT manager, developer, administrator or an advanced user, this Fast Start guide will help you learn the essential concepts needed to successfully work with Windows PowerShell. Covers Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Windows PowerShell 4.0.

Need a precise, focused training guide for Windows PowerShell? Get this Fast Start guide to quickly learn Windows PowerShell fundamentals. Regardless of whether you are an IT manager, developer, administrator or an advanced user, this Fast Start guide will help you learn the essential concepts needed to successfully work with Windows PowerShell. Covers all versions of Windows PowerShell, including PowerShell 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0. Use this guide with all current releases of Windows and Windows Server, including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016.

Need a precise, focused training guide for Windows PowerShell? Get this 130-page Fast Start guide to quickly learn Windows PowerShell fundamentals. Regardless of whether you are an IT manager, developer, administrator or an advanced user, this Fast Start guide will help you learn the essential concepts needed to successfully work with Windows PowerShell. Covers all versions of Windows PowerShell, including PowerShell 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0. Use this guide with all current releases of Windows and Windows Server, including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016. Table of Contents 1. Getting Started with Windows PowerShell7 Working with the Windows PowerShell Console9 The Standard Console10 The Elevated, Administrator Console11 The PowerShell Console12 Working with the Windows PowerShell ISE14 Managing Windows PowerShell Console Properties17 Using the Command History20 2. Managing Cmdlets and Scripts23 Working with Cmdlets23 Understanding Cmdlet Names23 Getting Information About Cmdlets28 Understanding Cmdlet Parameters30 Using External Commands34 Understanding Scripts & Script Execution36 Specifying Authentication Credentials39 3. Using the Help Documentation41 Accessing Help Files41 Creating a Central Help Folder42 4. Initializing the Scripting Environment47 Passing Startup Parameters47 Invoking Windows PowerShell50 Using -Command to Run Commands51 Using -File to Run Scripts53 Using Nested Consoles54 5. Navigating Input, Parsing, and Output Options57 Using Basic Line Editing Techniques57 How Parsing Works61 Parsing Assigned Values63 Parsing Exceptions65 Output from Parsing67 6. Managing Output69 Using Formatting Cmdlets69 Specifying Output Format69 Using Pipelines With Formatters72 Specifying Properties to Display73 Grouping and Sorting76 Writing to Output Streams79 Explicitly Writing Output80 Using Other Output Streams82 Rendering and Finalizing the Output85 More on Redirecting Input, Output, and Error88 7. Working with Profiles91 Creating Profiles93 Understanding Execution Order95 Understanding the Command Path97 Managing the Command Path97 Managing File Extensions and File Associations99 8. Executing Commands Remotely103 Remoting Fundamentals104 Configuring Remoting105 Connecting Between Domains and in Workgroups106 Creating HTTPS and Other Listeners109 9. Executing Remote Commands112 Understanding Remote Execution112 Standard Commands for Remoting114 Invoking Remote Commands118 10. Managing PowerShell Sessions123 Invoking Sessions123 Navigating Remote Connection Issues129 Disconnecting Sessions131 Reconnecting Sessions133 Click Look Inside and discover this hands-on computer handbook. Scroll to the top of the page and select the Buy Now button. Want something you can hold in your hands? Look also for the print edition!

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Leverage PowerShell to perform many day-to-day tasks in Microsoft Azure Key FeaturesDeploy and manage Azure virtual machines with PowerShell commands.Get to grips with core concept of Azure PowerShell such as working with images and disks, custom script extension, high availability and more.Leverage hands-on projects to successfully apply what you learned through the course of this book.Book Description As an IT professional, it is important to keep up with cloud technologies and learn to manage those technologies. PowerShell is a critical tool that must be learned in order to effectively and more easily manage many Azure resources. This book is designed to teach you to leverage PowerShell to enable you to perform many day-to-day tasks in Microsoft Azure. Taking you through the basic tasks of installing Azure PowerShell and connecting to Azure, you will learn to properly connect to an Azure tenant with PowerShell. Next, you will dive into tasks such as deploying virtual machines with PowerShell, resizing them, and managing their power states with PowerShell. Then, you will learn how to complete more complex Azure tasks with PowerShell, such as deploying virtual machines from custom images, creating images from existing virtual machines, and creating and managing of data disks. Later, you will learn how to snapshot virtual machines, how to encrypt virtual machines, and how to leverage load balancers to ensure high availability with PowerShell. By the end of this book, you will have developed dozens of PowerShell skills that are invaluable in the deployment and management of Azure virtual machines. What you will learnManage virtual machines with PowerShellResize a virtual machine with PowerShellCreate OS disk snapshots via PowerShellDeploy new virtual machines from snapshots via PowerShellProvision and attach data disks to a virtual machine via PowerShellLoad balance virtual machines with PowerShellManage virtual machines with custom script extensionsWho this book is for This book is intended for IT professionals who are responsible for managing Azure virtual machines. No prior PowerShell or Azure experience is needed.

What is Exchange Online? Exchange Online is available as part of an Office 365 plan and as a standalone service. Microsoft offers a variety of Office 365 plans that include access to Office Web Apps, the full desktop versions of Office, or both as well as access to Exchange Online. If you don’t want to use Office 365, Microsoft also offers plans specifically for Exchange Online. In Exchange Online, email addresses, distribution groups, and other directory resources are stored in the directory database provided by Active Directory for Windows Azure. Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud-based server operating system. Exchange Online fully supports the Windows security model and by default relies on this security mechanism to control access to directory resources. As you get started with Exchange Online, it's important to keep in mind that available features and options can change over time. Microsoft releases cumulative updates for Exchange on a fixed schedule and applies these cumulative updates to their hosted Exchange servers. This Fast Start guide begins by showing you the basics of Exchange Online, Office 365 and Windows Azure and then builds on that knowledge to show you how to work with these services using both the graphical tools and Windows PowerShell.

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