interested in a "Powershell Scripting for the System Administrator" book?

I'm just tossing this out there as a project that I'm considering
working on. It would be different from some other books I've seen so
far in that it would specifically not teach you to program, maybe not
even get that detailed in the scripting. The idea is that a working
sysadmin doesn't have time to find all of the resources, scrape
together examples, and so on. So this book would do those two things,
plus attempt to come up with some really novel techniques that you
could apply right away. I'd like for someone new to Powershell to be
able to pick up this book and solve real-world problems the same day.
More experienced scripters would find tips to convert some of their
VBscript stuff into object/pipeline-oriented PSH code.

A companion website download might have a meta-installer that would
get PSH for you plus PSCX etc., plus a library of scripts.

I've never published a book, so I'm open to any general advice you
guys have as well.

I had thought about this to, but after reading the synopsis for Lee's
book... it addresses this IMO. His book is in tech review ATM I believe. I
wont discourage you from writing a book... the more the better, but I
thought this info would be good for you.

Here is a link.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528492/

"Hal Rottenberg" <halr9000@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm just tossing this out there as a project that I'm considering
> working on. It would be different from some other books I've seen so
> far in that it would specifically not teach you to program, maybe not
> even get that detailed in the scripting. The idea is that a working
> sysadmin doesn't have time to find all of the resources, scrape
> together examples, and so on. So this book would do those two things,
> plus attempt to come up with some really novel techniques that you
> could apply right away. I'd like for someone new to Powershell to be
> able to pick up this book and solve real-world problems the same day.
> More experienced scripters would find tips to convert some of their
> VBscript stuff into object/pipeline-oriented PSH code.
>
> A companion website download might have a meta-installer that would
> get PSH for you plus PSCX etc., plus a library of scripts.
>
> I've never published a book, so I'm open to any general advice you
> guys have as well.
>

Sounds a bit like the "DNS & BIND Cookbook" by Cricket Liu. Different
subject, but same general idea and format I think your after. I bought it.
Not sure how it did.

--
William Stacey [C# MVP]


"Hal Rottenberg" <halr9000@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| I'm just tossing this out there as a project that I'm considering
| working on. It would be different from some other books I've seen so
| far in that it would specifically not teach you to program, maybe not
| even get that detailed in the scripting. The idea is that a working
| sysadmin doesn't have time to find all of the resources, scrape
| together examples, and so on. So this book would do those two things,
| plus attempt to come up with some really novel techniques that you
| could apply right away. I'd like for someone new to Powershell to be
| able to pick up this book and solve real-world problems the same day.
| More experienced scripters would find tips to convert some of their
| VBscript stuff into object/pipeline-oriented PSH code.
|
| A companion website download might have a meta-installer that would
| get PSH for you plus PSCX etc., plus a library of scripts.
|
| I've never published a book, so I'm open to any general advice you
| guys have as well.
|