TABLE OF CONTENTS -- 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 2.0? -- Uninstalling PowerShell 1.0 -- Installing and Configuring Windows PowerShell -- Configuring Windows Remote Management -- Interacting with the PowerShell Command Prompt -- Windows PowerShell Scripting -- Simplifying PowerShell Script Execution -- Back to the Knock Knock Joke Game -- Summary -- Chapter 2 INTERACTING WITH THE WINDOWS POWERSHELL COMMAND LINE AND GRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT -- Project Preview: The Story of the Three Amigos -- Accessing Windows PowerShell -- Customizing the Windows PowerShell Working Environment -- Configuring the Windows Command Console -- Windows PowerShell Edit Enhancements -- Working with Graphical 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 Seinfeld Trivia Quiz -- Windows PowerShell Language Features -- Storing and Retrieving Data -- Back to the Seinfeld 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 -- Accessing and Administering System Resources -- Programmatically Interacting with the Windows Registry -- Remoting -- Creating Your Own Script Cmdlets -- Eventing -- Back to PowerShell Blackjack Game -- Summary -- Chapter 10 DEBUGGING POWERSHELL SCRIPTS -- Project Preview: The PowerShell Game Console -- Understanding PowerShell Errors -- Terminating Versus Non-Terminating Errors -- Dissecting the Structure of Error Messages -- Telling Windows PowerShell How to React to Errors -- Creating Error Handlers -- Tracing Script Execution -- Debugging PowerShell 2.0 Scripts -- Back to the PowerShell Game Console -- Summary -- Part IV: APPENDICES -- Appendix A: WHAT'S ON THE COMPANION WEBSITE? -- Appendix B: WHAT NEXT? -- Windows PowerShell IDEs -- 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.

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