Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

About this Book

About the Author

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

Ideas for on Your Own

Going Further

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. Running commands

2.1. Not scripting: just running commands

2.2. Opening PowerShell

2.3. Managing files and folders—you know this!

2.4. Accuracy counts

2.5. Not just files and folders: introducing PSDrives

2.6. Support for external commands

2.7. The same old commands—almost

2.8. Common points of confusion

2.8.1. Typing cmdlet names

2.8.2. Typing parameters

2.9. Lab

Chapter 3. Using the help system

3.1. The help system: how you discover commands

3.2. Asking for help

3.3. Using help to find commands

3.4. Interpreting the help