Table of Contents

 

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