List of Figures

Chapter 1. Solving administrative challenges

Figure 1.1. The relationship between decreasing hardware costs, increasing infrastructure complexity, and the cost of administering the evolving infrastructure

Figure 1.2. Hierarchy of automation activity

Figure 1.3. Using Get-Service to display a subset of the running services

Chapter 2. Using PowerShell

Figure 2.1. A process diagram of the PowerShell pipeline at work

Figure 2.2. Use of a foreach keyword statement

Figure 2.3. Use of a foreach alias

Figure 2.4. The PowerShell ISE

Figure 2.5. Starting and viewing PowerShell jobs

Chapter 3. WMI in depth

Figure 3.1. The structure of WMI

Figure 3.2. Using the -Parameter option with Get-Help

Figure 3.3. Relationships between the different views of a PowerShell object, showing that the All view is the sum of the other views

Figure 3.4. Viewing the system properties of a WMI class

Figure 3.5. Running listing 3.6 in the PowerShell ISE

Chapter 4. Best practices and optimization

Figure 4.1. Using the foreach keyword

Figure 4.2. Using the ForEach-Object cmdlet

Figure 4.3. Extending the PowerShell type system

Figure 4.4. Modifying the default display format

Figure 4.5. Using the WMI date conversion methods

Chapter 5. System documentation

Figure 5.1. Results of running the functions from listings 5.1 and 5.2

Figure 5.2. Expanding the BIOS characteristics

Figure 5.3. Calculating system uptime

Figure 5.4. Output of running the get-OSrecovery function in listing 5.17

Chapter 6. Disk systems