Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Praise for the First Edition
Preface
About this Book
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Before you begin
1.1. Why you can’t afford to ignore PowerShell
Life Without Powershell
Life with Powershell
1.2. Is this book for you?
1.3. How to use this book
The Main Chapters
Hands-on Labs
Supplementary Materials
Further Exploration
Above and Beyond
1.4. Setting up your lab environment
1.5. Installing Windows PowerShell
1.6. Online resources
1.7. Being immediately effective with PowerShell
Chapter 2. Meet PowerShell
2.1. Choose your weapon
2.1.1. The console window
2.1.2. The Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)
2.2. It’s typing class all over again
2.3. Common points of confusion
2.4. What version is this?
2.5. Lab
2.6. Further exploration
Chapter 3. Using the help system
3.1. The help system: how you discover commands
3.2. Updatable help
3.3. Asking for help
3.4. Using help to find commands