Dedication

To Ann, for everything

Brief Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Author

About the Cover Illustration

1. Getting started with PowerShell

Chapter 1. PowerShell fundamentals

Chapter 2. Learning PowerShell

Chapter 3. PowerShell toolkit

Chapter 4. Automating administration

2. Working with people

Chapter 5. User accounts

Chapter 6. Mailboxes

Chapter 7. Desktop

3. Working with servers

Chapter 8. Windows servers

Chapter 9. DNS

Chapter 10. Active Directory structure

Chapter 11. Active Directory topology

Chapter 12. Exchange Server 2007 and 2010

Chapter 13. IIS 7 and XML

Chapter 14. SQL Server

Chapter 15. PowerShell innovations

Appendix Afterword PowerShell is for you

Appendix A. PowerShell reference

Appendix B. Modules and advanced functions

Appendix C. PowerShell events

Appendix D. Reference data

Appendix E. Useful links

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Author

About the Cover Illustration

1. Getting started with PowerShell

1.2. Why PowerShell?