Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies

Introduction.Part I: Get ting a Bird's-Eye View of PowerShell 2.Chapter 1: The Windows PowerShell Rap Sheet.Chapter 2: Customizing and Shortcutting the Environment.Chapter 3: A Pinch of Shell, a Pound of Power.Part II: PowerShell's Basic Structure and Syntax.Chapter 4: Shelling Out Commands and Scripts.Chapter 5: When Dollars Turn into Variables.Chapter 6: A Bit of Logic to Save the Day.Chapter 7: Working on a Pipeline.Part III: Complex Data Description and Sharing.Chapter 8: Working with Windows Management Instrumentation.Chapter 9: Bringing Strings into the Limelight.Chapter 10: I'll Take Numbers for $100, Please.Chapter 11: Grouping Data Using Arrays and Hash Tables.Chapter 12: Readin' and Writin' Files.Chapter 13: Going On a Date with PowerShell.Part IV: Controlling Where and How You Operate PowerShell.Chapter 14: Using Functions to Divide and Conquer.Chapter 15: PowerShell Ninjas: Running Jobs Remotely or in the Background.Chapter 16: Making Your Script Speak Different Languages.Chapter 17: Smashing Those Bugs.Part V: Real-World Windows Administration Using PowerShell.Chapter 18: Mission Control: All Systems Go.Chapter 19: Taming the Windows Registry.Chapter 20: Reaching Out to Active Directory.Chapter 21: PowerShell Lockdown.Chapter 22: Converting Your Old Scripts: Out with the Old, In with the New.Part VI: Configuring and Reporting Via PowerShell.Chapter 23: Controlling Your Network Confi guration.Chapter 24: Managing Your Hardware.Chapter 25: Making Reporting Easy.Part VII: The Par t of Tens.Chapter 26: The Ten Most Important Cmdlets.Chapter 27: Ten Common PowerShell Mistakes.Bonus Chapter 1: Handling Exceptions.Index.