I am really interested in PowerShell for SharePoint Administration. Please help me with some books, sources or tutotials.
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A great sample of PowerShell scripts developed/managed by Microsoft MVPS and employees for SharePoint farms (WSS or MOSS) management.
A great PowerShell primer is PowerShell in Action by Bruce Payette.
A great PowerShell w/ SharePoint primer is Automating SharePoint w/ PowerShell 2.0 by Gary Lapointe and Shannon Bray
Gary Lapointe's blog is also very good with many sample scripts.
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1Automating SharePoint with Powershell 2.0 is an amazing reference book and must have for SharePoint Admins. Jul 1, 2012 at 12:21
For using PowerShell with SharePoint - there are tools, code libraries and some good books out there:
Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Command Builder
SharePoint Management PowerShell scripts (CodePlex)
Automating SharePoint 2010 with Windows PowerShell 2.0 (book)
PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 How-To (book)
PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators (book)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook (book)
This is a great blog on using PowerShell with SharePoint: http://get-spscripts.com/
For Real-World SharePoint PowerShell scripts:
There is a PowerShell command builder tool for SharePoint developed by Microsoft. It has been of great help to me. Try it: Windows Powershell Command Builder for SharePoint