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Practical and precise, this hands-on guide with ready answers is designed for IT professionals working with Microsoft products, whether for on-premises, hybrid or cloud support. Inside, you'll find expert insights, tips, tricks and workarounds that will show you how to make the most of Windows PowerShell in the shortest amount of time possible. During the course of reading this book, you will master a number of complex topics, techniques, commands and functions.

This book focuses on administration tasks, including:
Using PowerShell to manage Windows roles and features
Inventorying and evaluating computers using scripting
Working with PowerShell drives, directories and files
Reading and writing file contents
Getting and setting security descriptors
Creating access rules and taking ownership
Configuring file and directory auditing
Navigating the Windows Registry
Creating and managing registry keys
Comparing registry keys
Viewing and filtering event logs
Setting event log options
Writing custom events
Managing the state of system services
Configuring service options, such as logon and recovery
Joining computers to a domain
Renaming computers
Restarting or shutting down computers remotely
Enabling or disabling system restore
Creating and using checkpoints
Recovering from restore points
Examining running processes
Analyzing computer performance
Monitoring resource usage

Windows PowerShell 6: Essentials for Administration can be used with the companion book, Windows PowerShell 6: IT Pro Solutions