Steve Seguis is a Microsoft Windows systems engineer with more than 12 years of experience managing small- to large-scale Windows environments. He was a Microsoft MVP for Windows Server - Admin Frameworks from 2004–2007, and is a contributing technical editor for Windows IT Pro.

• Introduction 1Part I: Getting a Bird’s-Eye View of PowerShell 2 9Chapter 1: The Windows PowerShell Rap Sheet 11Chapter 2: Customizing and Shortcutting the Environment 21Chapter 3: A Pinch of Shell, a Pound of Power 37Part II: PowerShell’s Basic Structure and Syntax 47Chapter 4: Shelling Out Commands and Scripts 49Chapter 5: When Dollars Turn into Variables 61Chapter 6: A Bit of Logic to Save the Day 77Chapter 7: Working on a Pipeline 89Part III: Complex Data Description and Sharing 97Chapter 8: Working with Windows Management Instrumentation 99Chapter 9: Bringing Strings into the Limelight 117Chapter 10: I’ll Take Numbers for $100, Please 137Chapter 11: Grouping Data Using Arrays and Hash Tables 147Chapter 12: Readin’ and Writin’ Files 159Chapter 13: Going On a Date with PowerShell 175Part IV: Controlling Where and How You Operate PowerShell 185Chapter 14: Using Functions to Divide and Conquer 187Chapter 15: PowerShell Ninjas: Running Jobs Remotely or in the Background 209Chapter 16: Making Your Script Speak Different Languages 223Chapter 17: Smashing Those Bugs 231Part V: Real-World Windows Administration Using PowerShell 245Chapter 18: Mission Control: All Systems Go 247Chapter 19: Taming the Windows Registry 261Chapter 20: Reaching Out to Active Directory 273Chapter 21: PowerShell Lockdown 287Chapter 22: Converting Your Old Scripts: Out with the Old, In with the New 301Part VI: Configuring and Reporting Via PowerShell 317Chapter 23: Controlling Your Network Configuration 319Chapter 24: Managing Your Hardware 331Chapter 25: Making Reporting Easy 345Part VII: The Part of Tens 357Chapter 26: The Ten Most Important Cmdlets 359Chapter 27: Ten Common PowerShell Mistakes 365Bonus Chapter 1: Handling Exceptions 1Index 375

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Steve Seguis is a Microsoft Windows systems engineer with more than 12 years of experience managing small- to large-scale Windows environments. He was a Microsoft MVP for Windows Server - Admin Frameworks from 2004–2007, and is a contributing technical editor for Windows IT Pro.

• Introduction 1Part I: Getting a Bird’s-Eye View of PowerShell 2 9Chapter 1: The Windows PowerShell Rap Sheet 11Chapter 2: Customizing and Shortcutting the Environment 21Chapter 3: A Pinch of Shell, a Pound of Power 37Part II: PowerShell’s Basic Structure and Syntax 47Chapter 4: Shelling Out Commands and Scripts 49Chapter 5: When Dollars Turn into Variables 61Chapter 6: A Bit of Logic to Save the Day 77Chapter 7: Working on a Pipeline 89Part III: Complex Data Description and Sharing 97Chapter 8: Working with Windows Management Instrumentation 99Chapter 9: Bringing Strings into the Limelight 117Chapter 10: I’ll Take Numbers for $100, Please 137Chapter 11: Grouping Data Using Arrays and Hash Tables 147Chapter 12: Readin’ and Writin’ Files 159Chapter 13: Going On a Date with PowerShell 175Part IV: Controlling Where and How You Operate PowerShell 185Chapter 14: Using Functions to Divide and Conquer 187Chapter 15: PowerShell Ninjas: Running Jobs Remotely or in the Background 209Chapter 16: Making Your Script Speak Different Languages 223Chapter 17: Smashing Those Bugs 231Part V: Real-World Windows Administration Using PowerShell 245Chapter 18: Mission Control: All Systems Go 247Chapter 19: Taming the Windows Registry 261Chapter 20: Reaching Out to Active Directory 273Chapter 21: PowerShell Lockdown 287Chapter 22: Converting Your Old Scripts: Out with the Old, In with the New 301Part VI: Configuring and Reporting Via PowerShell 317Chapter 23: Controlling Your Network Configuration 319Chapter 24: Managing Your Hardware 331Chapter 25: Making Reporting Easy 345Part VII: The Part of Tens 357Chapter 26: The Ten Most Important Cmdlets 359Chapter 27: Ten Common PowerShell Mistakes 365Bonus Chapter 1: Handling Exceptions 1Index 375

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Steve Seguis is a Microsoft Windows systems engineer with more than 12 years of experience managing small- to large-scale Windows environments. He was a Microsoft MVP for Windows Server - Admin Frameworks from 2004–2007, and is a contributing technical editor for Windows IT Pro.

• Introduction 1Part I: Getting a Bird’s-Eye View of PowerShell 2 9Chapter 1: The Windows PowerShell Rap Sheet 11Chapter 2: Customizing and Shortcutting the Environment 21Chapter 3: A Pinch of Shell, a Pound of Power 37Part II: PowerShell’s Basic Structure and Syntax 47Chapter 4: Shelling Out Commands and Scripts 49Chapter 5: When Dollars Turn into Variables 61Chapter 6: A Bit of Logic to Save the Day 77Chapter 7: Working on a Pipeline 89Part III: Complex Data Description and Sharing 97Chapter 8: Working with Windows Management Instrumentation 99Chapter 9: Bringing Strings into the Limelight 117Chapter 10: I’ll Take Numbers for $100, Please 137Chapter 11: Grouping Data Using Arrays and Hash Tables 147Chapter 12: Readin’ and Writin’ Files 159Chapter 13: Going On a Date with PowerShell 175Part IV: Controlling Where and How You Operate PowerShell 185Chapter 14: Using Functions to Divide and Conquer 187Chapter 15: PowerShell Ninjas: Running Jobs Remotely or in the Background 209Chapter 16: Making Your Script Speak Different Languages 223Chapter 17: Smashing Those Bugs 231Part V: Real-World Windows Administration Using PowerShell 245Chapter 18: Mission Control: All Systems Go 247Chapter 19: Taming the Windows Registry 261Chapter 20: Reaching Out to Active Directory 273Chapter 21: PowerShell Lockdown 287Chapter 22: Converting Your Old Scripts: Out with the Old, In with the New 301Part VI: Configuring and Reporting Via PowerShell 317Chapter 23: Controlling Your Network Configuration 319Chapter 24: Managing Your Hardware 331Chapter 25: Making Reporting Easy 345Part VII: The Part of Tens 357Chapter 26: The Ten Most Important Cmdlets 359Chapter 27: Ten Common PowerShell Mistakes 365Bonus Chapter 1: Handling Exceptions 1Index 375

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