Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Windows PowerShell Basics -- Chapter 1 Introducing Windows PowerShell -- Project Preview: The Knock Knock Joke Game -- Getting to Know Windows PowerShell -- What's New in Windows PowerShell? -- The Many Flavors of PowerShell -- Installing and Configuring Windows PowerShell -- Retaining Access to PowerShell 2.0 -- Configuring Windows Remote Management -- Interacting with the PowerShell Command Prompt -- Windows PowerShell Scripting -- Executing PowerShell Scripts -- Back to the Knock Knock Joke Game -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Interacting with the PowerShell Console Window and Integrated Scripting Environment -- Project Preview: The Story of the Three Amigos -- Accessing Windows PowerShell -- Specifying Your Default Working Directory -- Configuring the PowerShell Console Window -- Working with the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) -- Using Administrative Privileges with Windows PowerShell -- Navigating Hierarchical Data Stores -- Back to The Story of the Three Amigos -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Object-Based Scripting with .NET -- Project Preview: The PowerShell Fortune Teller Game -- Additional PowerShell Customization Techniques -- The Microsoft .NET Framework -- Executing Cmdlets -- Executing Background Jobs -- Windows PowerShell Plumbing -- Working with Aliases -- Back to the PowerShell Fortune Teller Game -- Summary -- Part II: Learning How to Write PowerShell Scripts -- Chapter 4 Working with Variables, Arrays, and Hashes -- Project Preview: The World War II Trivia Quiz -- Windows PowerShell Language Features -- Storing and Retrieving Data -- Back to the World War II Trivia Quiz -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Implementing Conditional Logic -- Project Preview: The Guess My Number Game -- Comparing Values -- Combining Pipelines and Operators -- Implementing Conditional Logic -- Windows PowerShell Operators.

Back to the Guess My Number Game -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Using Loops to Process Data -- Project Preview: The Rock, Paper, Scissors Game -- Working with Loops -- Altering Loop Execution -- Back to the Rock, Paper, Scissors Game -- Summary -- Chapter 7 Organizing Scripts Using Functions -- Project Preview: The PowerShell Hangman Game -- Changing Script Design Using Functions and Filters -- Enhancing Script Organization with Functions -- Replacing Functions with Filters -- Back to the PowerShell Hangman Game -- Summary -- Part III: Advanced Topics -- Chapter 8 Working with Files and Folders -- Project Preview: The PowerShell Tic-Tac-Toe Game -- Using the Power of Regular Expressions -- Administering Files and Folders -- Reading from and Writing to Files -- Sending Output to the Printer -- Displaying Data in a Graphic Window Using the Out-GridView Cmdlet -- Back to the PowerShell Tic-Tac-Toe Game -- Summary -- Chapter 9 Basic System Administration -- Project Preview: The PowerShell Blackjack Game -- Specifying Script Requirements -- Accessing and Administering System Resources -- Programmatically Interacting with the Windows Registry -- PowerShell Remoting -- Eventing -- Back to PowerShell Blackjack Game -- Summary -- Chapter 10 Debugging PowerShell Scripts -- Project Preview: The PowerShell Game Console -- Understanding PowerShell Errors -- Terminating Versus Nonterminating Errors -- Dissecting the Structure of Error Messages -- Telling PowerShell How to React to Errors -- Creating Error Handlers -- Tracing Script Execution -- Debugging PowerShell Scripts -- Debugging Scripts Using the ISE -- Back to the PowerShell Game Console -- Summary -- Chapter 11 PowerShell and the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) -- Introducing Windows Management Instrumentation -- Two Ways of Working with WMI -- Summary -- Part IV: Appendixes.

Appendix A: What's on the Companion Website? -- Appendix B: What's Next? -- Alternative PowerShell Consoles and Editors -- Recommended Reading -- Locating Microsoft PowerShell Resources Online -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J-K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W-Z.