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