Apply best practices for automating system administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and optimize your operational efficiency and results. This guide captures the field-tested tips, real-world lessons, and candid advice of practitioners across the range of business and technical scenarios and across the scripting life cycle. Discover how to:

• Take advantage of new features and cmdlets in Windows PowerShell 2.0
• Plan scripting usage scenarios and define standards Deploy Windows PowerShell 2.0 to desktops and servers
• Configure scripting environments
• Optimize remote scripting capabilities
• Work with Active Directory and WMI
• Design functions and modules
• Optimize input and output
• Handle errors
• Document scripts
• Test and troubleshoot scripts
• Avoid scripting pitfalls

The companion CD includes a fully searchable eBook and sample scripts.

For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.