Hot on the heels on the announcements of that PowerShell v3 beta is available for download either as a free standalone product for installation on Windows 7, Windows 2008 & Windows 2008 R2 or as a commercial product where an operating system is included – Windows 8 or Windows server 8 to suit your mood
http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/03/01/windows-8-and-powershell-3-betas.aspx
comes the announcement from Manning of a new PowerShell book
PowerShell v3 in Depth
Written by Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks and myself it covers PowerShell v3 in great detail – how to get the absolute maximum out of PowerShell. The 40 chapters will cover all aspects of PowerShell v2 and v3. This book is about PowerShell it self – we won’t cover working with AD, Exchange etc.
This is a book with a single voice as all 3 authors work on each chapter – with individual anecdotes, comments and asides as a bonus- you get our collected and individual experience and knowledge. If you only buy one PowerShell book it should be this one
Access to the early drafts is available from
By: Cinty Williams on March 11, 2012 at 7:05 am
Will this book have exercises at the end of each chapter. I know Don Jones does that sometimes and I think thats great.
By: RichardSiddaway on March 11, 2012 at 8:55 am
The question of exercises hasn’t been decided yet but if enough people ask we may well do