PowerShell for Sysadmins: Workflow Automation Made Easy Kindle Edition

The author states that book is ideal for the IT professional who doesn’t consider themselves a programmer, but finds themselves doing the same routines over and over. The author gives very good examples and explains what you “should” know.I work in IT as a SysAdmin and I actually do consider myself a programmer.However, lately I have been resetting employee passwords.. ALOT.I ended up writing a python script to run two separate Powershell scripts.One to search for the user and the other to reset their password.I started thinking that there was absolutely an easier way to do that.I started looking for Powershell books and stumbled across this one.So far it’s very informative and I’ve already recommended it at work.

Don't purchase the first edition of this book if you are new to coding.The technical editor missed a number of errors or mistakes in the example code. I have experience coding multiple scripting languages, so I recognize mistakes in the book and can remedy them in my own code and continue the lesson. Beginners, however, will type the example code and the output won't match the book and they won't have the experience to know why.I found and identified something like five errors in the first three chapters. In chapter four, there is an error that will cause the reader to get no output while the book shows five lines of text as the output. Again, a seasoned coder from another language will be able to identify the cause and then look for the right command to plug in, but a first-time or very green learner will just be frustrated.All that said, this is an excellent book for someone who understands the concepts of scripting languages and just wants exposure to the PowerShell way of doing things. The author writes clearly and competently. Would recommend whole-heartedly to any who are comfortable in other languages.

The Kindle version has frequent formatting issues (at least on the Kindle for PC client), dropping newlines so lists of commands and outputs often get squished into a single line like:❶ PS> $num = 1 PS> $num 1❷ PS> $num.GetType().name Int32❸ PS> $num = 1.5 PS> $num.GetType().name Double❹ PS> [Int32]$num 2In the physical copy (bought locally since it takes 2-3 weeks for Amazon to ship stuff to their Prime customers now--good for local business!), this appears as:❶ PS> $num = 1 PS> $num 1❷ PS> $num.GetType().name Int32❸ PS> $num = 1.5 PS> $num.GetType().name Double❹ PS> [Int32]$num 2I've run across numerous instances of this so far, so presumably it's peppered throughout the Kindle version.

Written well. This book is good for users who have a fair amount of powershell experience and those who are newer to powersell. I appreciate the logic with examples to emphasize the concepts

Reads casually, but not forcefully so. As an intermediate PowerShell user (daily driver), I found at least one thing I had never learned before in every chapter of the "fundamentals" section. As the book moves on to the scripting and automation sections I found the insights invaluable. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is on their way to the top of DevOps.

the Kindle version kept crashing Kindle reader -- on two different computers. Kindle Version was 1.27.0 (56109). OS: Win10 Education. I reinstalled Kindle. I removed the book from my devices. Nothing worked for long. I could read for a while, then BAM..Kindle would shut down. I didn't do extensive testing of other books, but the ones I opened seemed OK. But maybe it's not the book. Maybe just a buggy version of Kindle.I ordered the paperback version.

Good book. Consise and well written. Read through it once and will enjoy a deeper dive after I finish reading through his Pester book that I'm currently enjoying. Keep it up Adam.

The book is written in a way like how an experienced IT professional teaches his interns to pick up a new technology. Concepts are explained in details with hands-on examples. I never get bored in reading this book.

Concise and well written as all of Adams work is, this is a great way to map your daily work load to things that can be done with Powershell. You won't regret getting this as it will improve your day to day work immensely

The book is good. However, the examples and situations are very basic. Not really for a up and coming sysadmin.

Good book that teach powersehll techniques and also provides scripts to savetijme as an administrator

Adam writes technical content better than anyone. This is an excellent book for those Admins reliant on PS. Highly recommended.

I really liked the simple explanation and examples. Easy to follow with a focus for system admins. Thanks Adam :)