Good Powershell book?

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Direwolf20

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Hey all -- Hoping I've got this in the right forum!

I'm looking for a good recommendation on a Powershell book. I've got decent scripting/programming experience, so I don't want a book that explains If-Then and For loops, I'm looking for a book that assumes a certain degree of programming experience, and jumps right into powershell.

My plans are to use it for most Active Directory scripting (correct me if I'm wrong, but AD Domain level 2008 and above supports powershell natively?). Creating accounts and disabling/moving accounts, applying permissions, that kinda stuff.

Thanks in advance for any books you can recommend!
 
I like the [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Cookbook-Scripting-Microsofts/dp/0596801505/"]Amazon.com: Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft's New Command Shell (9780596801502): Lee Holmes: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-ZzWQkp1L.@@AMEPARAM@@51-ZzWQkp1L[/ame]. Like the other Cookbook series, it's not too deep on theory and shows sensible solutions for common questions or needs. This book is all about how -- if you need a book that explains why, then you'll want a different title.
 
I don't think you need a book. There are some high quality tutorials online like this one which jumps straight into practical topics: http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/

PowerShell usage in AD starts here: http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/powershell-tutorial-active-directory/

The author of those tutorials recommends this book: [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Active-Directory-System-Administrators/dp/0321228480"]Amazon.com: Inside Active Directory: A System Administrator's Guide (2nd Edition) (0785342228489): Sakari Kouti, Mika Seitsonen: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516EBRYHJML.@@AMEPARAM@@516EBRYHJML[/ame] Take a look in the table of contents to see if it covers the AD WMI objects you want to learn.
 
How do I turn off those Amazon image redirects? They're ass.
 
Uncheck "Automatically parse links in text" and hope the user can highlight and right click to open it. :p

There are probably tricks with vb code to work around it, but I don't want to risk the wrath of mods.
 
x2 for mikeblas's suggestion. In fact, it has a decently sized chapter concerning AD and powershell.
 
x2 for mikeblas's suggestion. In fact, it has a decently sized chapter concerning AD and powershell.
 
Even if it doesn't I can't make a http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Cookbook-Scripting-Microsofts/dp/0596801505 readable link </a> out of it. It's like we've been knocked back to 1995 just because someone wants to pick up some advertising revenue off of our recommendations.
 
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