The subject is treated in great detail and the information is well organized. The authors choose a progressive approach, where complex concepts are introduced increasingly; this promotes a smooth learning experience, without overloading the reader with excessive information. Each new concept is accompanied by small working examples, ready to copy/paste to the terminal and start playing with. The authors take the time to highlight gotchas and best practices, to explain what's going under the hood and why a particular feature has been developed that way; sometimes they also present the evolution of a technical decision, to make it clear the path (and the errors) that led to a particular implementation. Last but not least, the book is well written, sentences are concise and clear, and the authors do not lack the sense of humor, too. For a foreign reader (I'm Italian) this is especially valuable. And, as a plus, purchasing the printed book you get from Manning the PDF and epub versions for free, so you can keep the book in your pocket or on your screen while studying. I'm totally satisfied with my purchase.

I would read it, if this guy will let me.

But in all seriousness, I am the resident PowerShell expert at work and consider myself pretty advanced. I initially learned from Don Jones on CBT nuggets and his a month of lunches videos. And I have 3-4 years of experience writing hundreds of scripts. This book is teaching me things I didn't even know starting in the first chapter. I'll update my review if it changes, but this book is so far making me extremely happy with my purchase. Everyone online stated this was the one book to rule them all, and they weren't kidding.

My goal was to learn advanced techniques and .net abilities. This book will definitely set me on that path.

For a good many of you this book might take a quicker read through first, and then slowly going back through it again to really get the full scope. It will quickly leave those without prior programming and scripting behind fairly quickly. That doesn't mean you should get it. I doubt there are better and more complete guides around, but temper your expectations and perhaps look at a few more basic entry videos and other material to get past the first few humps.

I really wish bash and csh were part of windows as well. Unfortunately they are not. This for me is a decent opening for power-shell. I used to think it was really complicated but after writing a few scripts it seems straight forward enough to pickup. Some of the examples are easy to relate to. I realize there are many sites that offer examples in regards to power-shell, but I wanted to have a hard-copy to make notes and reference when away from a system. For me, this suits my needs very well.

Textbook was delivered as expected

I am overly pleased! This book covered many areas that I couldn't find easily. I have bought other PowerShell books, but they were lacking on much of thr info I needed. I would recomend having this book once you are ready to take PS to the next level.

This book is excellent material for anyone wanting to master PowerShell. Writing style is great and examples clear.

More than you need to know about Powershell

An exemplary look at PowerShell, covering what seems like the basic with many added details, a look into the why and wherefore of the decisions behind the architecture of the language.

Even seasoned PowerShell users will glean a wealth of information.

There aren't a lot of detailed script examples, but this is not a problem. In fact it means that the book is packed further with details and less on example scripts which are widely available. Examples are short, to the point and explain the topic being looked at without being excessive.

By no means have I read the whole book, but it is now an essential reference for me.

It arrived 4 days earlier than estimated, and it looks brand new

This is really quite a comprehensive look at the main user features of PowerShell. I've definitely used the book a lot as I use PowerShell in my day job. I think it's a good reference book but there's definitely something missing from the treatment provided. The authors try to show how cool PowerShell is. PowerShell is big mix of language features taken from other languages and so the book has become very long.

The book doesn't consider how PowerShell implements the basic features of the language. And so, there are plenty of weird PowerShell surprises for people to come into contact with. That's my main gripe with the book. Powershell does so much implicitly, behind the scenes, that it's really obscure about how it's doing basic operations. I would have favoured a book that focused more on these internal fundamentals, rather than just covering the language feature set.

I would recommend this book if you're going to be doing a lot of PowerShell. And it's got a good range of topics and the authors seem to try cover ever PowerShell feature. But you'll still be wondering most of the time 'yeah but how does that actually work'.

Plus, note to the publishers, the text really could do with being colour printed, especially the code snippets. The black and white text makes the code harder to read.

Excellent seller.fasr shipping