PowerShell for Sysadmins: Workflow Automation Made Easy

As someone who is actively trying to learn more about PowerShell, to advance beyond the level of a novice, I purchased this book with the assumption that it would provide a foundation for further research and learning. It was sufficient for both purposes.

The author’s writing is clear, generally to the point, and there are enough examples to help the reader follow along without needing to sit and type along. Though I was able to find this review which noted that there are (or were) several mistakes in the examples.

One thing that I did not like was the chapter on testing with Pester. It was about four pages long, barely taught anything, and it was clearly added as a schill for another book by the same author. This chapter fails to teach the reader how to properly test their code and it should have either been omitted or expanded.

For those with experience, I recommend this book as a quick introduction to PowerShell and some of its use cases. However, I do not recommend it for those without prior coding experience as they may benefit from a slower, more structured introduction to the language and programming/scripting in general.