Chapter 24 Additional tips, tricks, and techniques This is just one of those all-around chapters. It talks about profiles, customizing the console, a little bit of regex stufff, and some working with dates. This isn’t one of those big “learning” chapters, however it is a great reference chapter that I Read more…
Chapter 18 Sessions: remote control, with less work You probably wouldn’t guess this from the chapter’s title, but this chapter is about Sessions. It was also partially a review of the earlier chapter in remoting, although this chapter was a bit more of a deep-dive on Sessions. Introduced in this Read more…
Chapter 15 Variables a place to store your stuff For someone who has used powershell for a little while here, most of the chapter seemed pretty straightforward. However trying to look at it from someone brand new to powershell(and in some ways I definitely still am) this is a very Read more…
Chapter 12 Multitasking with Background Jobs I am sure it didn’t, but it certainly felt like this chapter contained everything there was to know about jobs. Wow, I had no idea there was even that much to jobs. Per what is increasingly becoming the standard, this chapter has made me Read more…
Chapter 9 Filtering and Comparisons This was a short chapter but still had some unexpected nuggets of knowledge. An interesting thing was I was not aware, and/or never noticed that sometimes the properties listed from a format-list or format-table are not always the actual property names you would find in Read more…
Chapter 5 Adding Commands Super fun Chapter. The majority of the chapter was focused on modules and snapins. This was nice because although I felt I had the general overview of them previously, this chapter forced me to explore them a bit more than I probably would have otherwise. The Read more…
Chapter 2 Running Commands This was a fun chapter for me, and was more or less a review of info I already have a pretty good grip on. My favorite part is when Don explains how in his classes he makes his students repeat parameter syntax aloud… Hilarious! There was Read more…
Oh Dear, I am not sure what I am getting myself into…and you may be wondering that yourself. Assuming that I do a 1 part blog post per chapter of the book, that is a 28 part blog post. Being a blogger that has <1 year at blogging, that atleast Read more…