Ebook: Learn Windows PowerShell 3: in a month of lunches

Before you begin -- Meet PowerShell -- Using the help system -- Running commands -- Working with providers -- The pipeline : connecting commands -- Adding commands -- Objects : data by another name -- The pipeline, deeper -- Formatting, and why it's done on the right -- Filtering and comparisons -- A practical interlude -- Remote control : one to one, and one to many -- Using Windows management instrumentation -- Multitasking with background jobs -- Working with many objects, one at a time -- Security alert! -- Variables : a place to store your stuff -- Input and output -- Sessions : remote control with less work -- You call this scripting? -- Improving your parameterized script -- Advanced remoting configuration -- Using regular expressions to parse text files -- Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques -- Using someone else's script -- Never the end -- PowerShell cheat sheet.;PowerShell provides a single, unified administrative command line from which to control and automate virtually every aspect of a Windows system. It accepts and executes commands immediately, and scripts can be written to manage most Windows servers.