List of Listings

Chapter 1. PowerShell fundamentals

Listing 1.1. Use of GB, MB, and KB

Listing 1.2. Using Get-Member to view the .NET type

Listing 1.3. Comparing files

Listing 1.4. Comparing file content

Listing 1.5. Counting the number of files in a folder by extension type

Listing 1.6. Producing statistics on file sizes in a folder

Listing 1.7. Using multiple filters in Where-Object

Listing 1.8. Using a calculated property in Select-Object

Listing 1.9. Viewing the installed PowerShell drives

Listing 1.10. Navigating the Registry provider

Chapter 2. Learning PowerShell

Listing 2.1. Sample profile

Listing 2.2. Sample PowerShell console file

Listing 2.3. Using Set-ExecutionPolicy

Listing 2.4. Using Get-Member to view object properties

Listing 2.5. Using an if statement to test file size

Listing 2.6. Using a switch statement to display file size

Listing 2.7. Using the Foreach-Object cmdlet to count file distributions

Listing 2.8. Using a foreach loop

Listing 2.9. Creating test folders and files with loops

Listing 2.10. PowerShell script to create test folders and test files

Chapter 3. PowerShell toolkit

Listing 3.1. Error message when creating .NET objects

Listing 3.2. .NET assemblies loaded by PowerShell

Listing 3.3. Open a web page from PowerShell

Listing 3.4. Searching for a user in Active Directory

Listing 3.5. WMI in VBScript

Listing 3.6. WMI in PowerShell

Listing 3.7. Retrieving LastBootTime using WMI

Listing 3.8. Determining the key for a WMI class

Chapter 4. Automating administration