List of PowerShell Books

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My list of free PowerShell eBooks has been very popular, so I decided to compile a list of paid PowerShell books. I own several of these books myself, and I thought it would be helpful to have links to the publisher page for code examples, bonus chapters and errata.

With the release of PowerShell 3 with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, it’s difficult to suggest books that don’t cover the additional features in the new version. For newcomers to PowerShell, take a look at the updated edition of Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches or Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step By Step. For someone that has been using PowerShell and is looking for a more advanced book, I recommend PowerShell in Depth.

The one possible exception to “buy a book that covers version 3” is Windows PowerShell in Action by Bruce Payette. This book goes into great depth on the inner workings of PowerShell and why certain decisions were made during development. Bruce is a founding member of the Windows PowerShell team at Microsoft, and the principal author of the language implementation. It’s hard to find a more authoritative source than this, and I hope this book gets updated for PowerShell version 3.

Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches

image-leftDon Jones, Jeffery Hicks

Paperback: 300 pages

Publisher: Manning Publications (October 28, 2012)

ISBN-10: 1617291080

ISBN-13: 978-1617291081

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Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Third Edition

image-leftLee Holmes

Paperback: 1000 pages

Publisher: O’Reilly Media (January 22, 2013)

ISBN-10: 1449320686

ISBN-13: 978-1449320683

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PowerShell in Depth

image-leftDon Jones, Richard Siddaway, Jeffery Hicks

Paperback: 525 pages

Publisher: Manning Publications (October 28, 2012)

ISBN-10: 1617290556

ISBN-13: 978-1617290558

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Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step By Step

image-leftEd Wilson

Paperback: 560 pages

Publisher: Microsoft Press (August 22, 2012)

ISBN-10: 0735663394

ISBN-13: 978-0735663398

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PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook

image-leftSherif Talaat, Haijun Fu

Paperback: 370 pages

Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 28, 2013)

ISBN-10: 1849686424

ISBN-13: 978-1849686426

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Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Look

image-leftAdam Driscoll

Paperback: 200 pages

Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 3, 2012)

ISBN-10: 1849686440

ISBN-13: 978-1849686440

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Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches

image-leftDon Jones, Jeffery Hicks

Paperback: 300 pages

Publisher: Manning Publications (Early 2013)

ISBN-13: 978-1617291166

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Windows PowerShell for Developers

image-leftDouglas Finke

Paperback: 125 pages

Publisher: O’Reilly Media (June 22, 2012)

ISBN-10: 1449322700

ISBN-13: 978-1449322700

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PowerShell and WMI

image-leftRichard Siddaway

Paperback: 450 pages

Publisher: Manning Publications (May 28, 2012)

ISBN-10: 1617290114

ISBN-13: 978-1617290114

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook

image-leftYaroslav Pentsarskyy

Paperback: 310 pages

Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 11, 2011)

ISBN-10: 1849684103

ISBN-13: 978-1849684101

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Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible

image-leftThomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, Tome Tanasovski

Paperback: 696 pages

Publisher: Wiley (October 11, 2011)

ISBN-10: 1118021983

ISBN-13: 978-1118021989

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

image-leftMike Pfeiffer

Paperback: 480 pages

Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 25, 2011)

ISBN-10: 1849682461

ISBN-13: 978-1849682466

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PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 How-To

image-leftSteven Mann

Paperback: 272 pages

Publisher: Sams (July 2, 2011)

ISBN-10: 067233559X

ISBN-13: 978-0672335594

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Automating Active Directory Administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0

image-leftKen St. Cyr, Laura E. Hunter

Paperback: 504 pages

Publisher: Sybex (June 28, 2011)

ISBN-10: 1118027310

ISBN-13: 978-1118027318

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Automating SharePoint 2010 with Windows PowerShell 2.0

image-leftGary Lapointe, Shannon Bray

Paperback: 768 pages

Publisher: Sybex (June 21, 2011)

ISBN-10: 0470939206

ISBN-13: 978-0470939208

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Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows PowerShell 2.0

image-leftMatthew Hester, Sarah Dutkiewicz

Paperback: 432 pages

Publisher: Sybex (May 31, 2011)

ISBN-10: 1118013867

ISBN-13: 978-1118013861

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Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition

image-leftBruce Payette

Paperback: 1016 pages

Publisher: Manning Publications (May 18, 2011)

ISBN-10: 1935182137

ISBN-13: 978-1935182139

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Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches

image-leftDon Jones

Paperback: 425 pages

Publisher: Manning Publications (May 14, 2011)

ISBN-10: 1617290211

ISBN-13: 978-1617290213

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VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration

image-leftLuc Dekens, Alan Renouf, Glenn Sizemore, Arnim van Lieshout, Jonathan Medd

Paperback: 768 pages

Publisher: Sybex (April 12, 2011)

ISBN-10: 0470890797

ISBN-13: 978-0470890790

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Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM, 2nd Edition

image-leftJeffery Hicks

Paperback: 402 pages

Publisher: SAPIEN Technologies (April 1, 2011)

ISBN-10: 0982131445

ISBN-13: 978-0982131442

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Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices

image-leftEd Wilson

Paperback: 752 pages

Publisher: Microsoft Press (December 14, 2010)

ISBN-10: 0735626464

ISBN-13: 978-0735626461

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PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators

image-leftNiklas Goude, Mattias Karlsson

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media (October 7, 2010)

ISBN-10: 0071747974

ISBN-13: 978-0071747974

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Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Second Edition

image-leftLee Holmes

Paperback: 888 page

Publisher: O’Reilly Media (August 26, 2010)

ISBN-10: 0596801505

ISBN-13: 978-0596801502

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PowerShell in Practice

image-leftRichard Siddaway

Paperback: 500 pages

Publisher: Manning Publications (June 28, 2010)

ISBN-10: 1935182005

ISBN-13: 978-1935182009

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Windows PowerShell 2.0 TFM

image-leftDon Jones, Jeffery Hicks

Paperback: 714 pages

Publisher: SAPIEN Technologies (January 1, 2010)

ISBN-10: 0982131429

ISBN-13: 978-0982131428

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Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies

image-leftSteve Seguis

Paperback: 412 pages

Publisher: For Dummies (August 10, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0470371986

ISBN-13: 978-0470371985

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration with Windows PowerShell

image-leftAnanthakumar Muthusamy, Yan Pan

Paperback: 576 pages

Publisher: Wrox (June 9, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0470477288

ISBN-13: 978-0470477281

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Windows PowerShell 2.0 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

image-leftWilliam R. Stanek

Paperback: 464 pages

Publisher: Microsoft Press (May 27, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0735625956

ISBN-13: 978-0735625952

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Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell TFM

image-leftHal Rottenberg

Paperback: 388 pages

Publisher: SAPIEN Technologies (March 31, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0982131402

ISBN-13: 978-0982131404

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Microsoft Windows PowerShell 2.0 Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 2nd Edition

image-leftJerry Lee Ford Jr.

Paperback: 423 pages

Publisher: Course Technology PTR (December 18, 2008)

ISBN-10: 1598638998

ISBN-13: 978-1598638998

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Windows PowerShell Unleashed (2nd Edition)

image-leftTyson Kopczynski, Pete Handley, Marco Shaw

Paperback: 528 pages

Publisher: Sams (December 14, 2008)

ISBN-10: 0672329883

ISBN-13: 978-0672329883

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