Appendix Custom property and column syntax (2.15 MB)
Appendix Help file (2.61 MB)
Appendix Operators (6.27 MB)
Appendix Pipeline parameter input (10.92 MB)
Appendix PowerShell cheat sheet (27.25 MB)
Appendix When to use $ (2.7 MB)
Chapter 1 Before you begin (18.37 MB)
Chapter 1 Being immediately effective with PowerShell (2.59 MB)
Chapter 1 Contacting us (2.5 MB)
Chapter 1 How to use this book (8.99 MB)
Chapter 1 Installing PowerShell (3.41 MB)
Chapter 1 Is this book for you (4.81 MB)
Chapter 1 Setting up your lab environment (4.55 MB)
Chapter 1 Windows, Linux, and macOS, oh my (2.96 MB)
Chapter 10 Extracting the value from a single property (9.99 MB)
Chapter 10 Further exploration (1.57 MB)
Chapter 10 How PowerShell passes data down the pipeline (3.78 MB)
Chapter 10 Lab (6.53 MB)
Chapter 10 Lab answers (4.35 MB)
Chapter 10 Parenthetical commands (3.38 MB)
Chapter 10 Plan A Pipeline input ByValue (8.49 MB)
Chapter 10 Plan B Pipeline input ByPropertyName (9.89 MB)
Chapter 10 The pipeline, deeper (3.52 MB)
Chapter 10 When things don t line up Custom properties (12.15 MB)
Chapter 10 Working with Azure PowerShell (2.25 MB)
Chapter 11 Another out GridViews (2.5 MB)
Chapter 11 Common points of confusion (11.68 MB)
Chapter 11 Creating custom columns and list entries (12.41 MB)
Chapter 11 Formatting And why it s done on the right (3.88 MB)
Chapter 11 Formatting lists (1.59 MB)
Chapter 11 Formatting tables (5.86 MB)
Chapter 11 Formatting wide lists (1.78 MB)
Chapter 11 Further exploration (1.02 MB)
Chapter 11 Going out To a file or to the host (2.15 MB)
Chapter 11 Lab (5.6 MB)
Chapter 11 Lab answers (1.48 MB)
Chapter 11 Working with the default formatting (23.68 MB)
Chapter 12 Common points of confusion (8.43 MB)
Chapter 12 Filtering and comparisons (4.02 MB)
Chapter 12 Filtering left (2.29 MB)
Chapter 12 Filtering objects out of the pipeline (8.09 MB)
Chapter 12 Further exploration (1.75 MB)
Chapter 12 Lab (2.52 MB)
Chapter 12 Lab answers (1.14 MB)
Chapter 12 Using comparison operators (10.26 MB)
Chapter 12 Using the iterative command-line model (7.82 MB)
Chapter 13 But wait, there s more (2.46 MB)
Chapter 13 Common points of confusion (2.3 MB)
Chapter 13 Differences between remote and local commands (14.06 MB)
Chapter 13 Further exploration (3.59 MB)
Chapter 13 Lab (5.78 MB)
Chapter 13 Lab answers (5.67 MB)
Chapter 13 PSRP over SSH overview (3.48 MB)
Chapter 13 Remote control One-to-one and one-to-many (16.31 MB)
Chapter 13 Setting up PSRP over SSH (5.35 MB)
Chapter 13 Using Enter-PSSession and Exit-PSSession for one-to-one remoting (12.68 MB)
Chapter 13 Using Invoke-Command for one-to-many remoting (7.56 MB)
Chapter 13 WinRM overview (13.61 MB)
Chapter 14 Commands for managing jobs (5.88 MB)
Chapter 14 Common points of confusion (3.48 MB)
Chapter 14 Creating a process job (3.71 MB)
Chapter 14 Creating a thread job (3.58 MB)
Chapter 14 Getting job results (10.33 MB)
Chapter 14 Jobs in the wild (2.41 MB)
Chapter 14 Lab (1.75 MB)
Chapter 14 Lab answers (1.42 MB)
Chapter 14 Multitasking with background jobs (3.28 MB)
Chapter 14 Remoting, as a job (3.94 MB)
Chapter 14 Synchronous vs asynchronous (6.65 MB)
Chapter 14 Working with child jobs (2.42 MB)
Chapter 15 Common points of confusion (13.58 MB)
Chapter 15 Lab (2.26 MB)
Chapter 15 Lab answers (2.38 MB)
Chapter 15 Let s speed things up (5.44 MB)
Chapter 15 The backup plan Enumerating objects (10.87 MB)
Chapter 15 The CIM way Invoking methods (12.98 MB)
Chapter 15 Working with many objects, one at a time (6.49 MB)
Chapter 16 Commands for working with variables (5.61 MB)
Chapter 16 Common points of confusion (2.26 MB)
Chapter 16 Declaring a variable s type (9.23 MB)
Chapter 16 Further exploration (1.7 MB)
Chapter 16 Lab (2.31 MB)
Chapter 16 Lab answers (1.84 MB)
Chapter 16 More tricks with double quotes (4.37 MB)
Chapter 16 Storing many objects in a variable (13.47 MB)
Chapter 16 Storing values in variables (13.12 MB)
Chapter 16 Using variables Fun tricks with quotes (7.45 MB)
Chapter 16 Variables A place to store your stuff (3.66 MB)
Chapter 16 Variable best practices (2.29 MB)
Chapter 17 Further exploration (867.11 KB)
Chapter 17 Input and output (6.73 MB)
Chapter 17 Lab (2.28 MB)
Chapter 17 Lab answers (1.31 MB)
Chapter 17 Other ways to write (4.76 MB)
Chapter 17 Read-Host (1.58 MB)
Chapter 17 Write-Host (10.46 MB)
Chapter 17 Write-Output (6.05 MB)
Chapter 18 Enter-PSSession with session objects (6.91 MB)
Chapter 18 Further exploration (950.99 KB)
Chapter 18 Implicit remoting Importing a session (11.15 MB)
Chapter 18 Invoke-Command with session objects (2.19 MB)
Chapter 18 Lab (5.71 MB)
Chapter 18 Lab answers (3.61 MB)
Chapter 18 Sessions Remote control with less work (13.17 MB)
Chapter 18 Using disconnected sessions (9.32 MB)
Chapter 19 A quick look at scope (13.5 MB)
Chapter 19 Creating a parameterized script (6.47 MB)
Chapter 19 Documenting your script (4.14 MB)
Chapter 19 Lab (2.51 MB)
Chapter 19 Lab answer (363.4 KB)
Chapter 19 Making commands repeatable (6.83 MB)
Chapter 19 One script, one pipeline (11.03 MB)
Chapter 19 Parameterizing commands (11.7 MB)
Chapter 19 You call this scripting (6.23 MB)
Chapter 2 It s typing class all over again (6.89 MB)
Chapter 2 Lab (7.39 MB)
Chapter 2 Meet PowerShell (11.65 MB)
Chapter 2 PowerShell on Linux (Ubuntu 18 04) (5.32 MB)
Chapter 2 PowerShell on macOS (4.36 MB)
Chapter 2 Visual Studio Code and the PowerShell extension (24.92 MB)
Chapter 2 What version is this (1.92 MB)
Chapter 20 Adding parameter aliases (3.63 MB)
Chapter 20 Adding the warm and fuzzies with verbose output (4.73 MB)
Chapter 20 Getting PowerShell to do the hard work (1.79 MB)
Chapter 20 Improving your parameterized script (3.57 MB)
Chapter 20 Lab (2.85 MB)
Chapter 20 Lab answer (863.2 KB)
Chapter 20 Making parameters mandatory (8.81 MB)
Chapter 20 Validating parameter input (3.63 MB)
Chapter 21 A regex syntax primer (19.65 MB)
Chapter 21 Further exploration (4.06 MB)
Chapter 21 Lab (4.45 MB)
Chapter 21 Lab answers (2.09 MB)
Chapter 21 Using regex with -Match (1.71 MB)
Chapter 21 Using regex with Select-String (10.87 MB)
Chapter 21 Using regular expressions to parse text files (7.31 MB)
Chapter 22 It s a line-by-line examination (3.75 MB)
Chapter 22 Lab (2.19 MB)
Chapter 22 Lab answer (6.7 MB)
Chapter 22 Using someone else s script (7.83 MB)
Chapter 23 Adding logic and loops (12.86 MB)
Chapter 23 Do While (1.08 MB)
Chapter 23 Lab (772.4 KB)
Chapter 23 Lab answers (382.06 KB)
Chapter 23 While (2.46 MB)
Chapter 24 Bad handling (3.33 MB)
Chapter 24 Going further with exception handling (4.47 MB)
Chapter 24 Handling errors (12 MB)
Chapter 24 Handling exceptions (6.3 MB)
Chapter 24 Handling exceptions for noncommands (1.82 MB)
Chapter 24 Lab (1.76 MB)
Chapter 24 Lab answer (303.01 KB)
Chapter 24 Two reasons for exception handling (3.03 MB)
Chapter 25 Debugging techniques (10.4 MB)
Chapter 25 Hey, script, stop right there with breakpoints (9.05 MB)
Chapter 25 Lab (1.14 MB)
Chapter 25 One line at a time (13.96 MB)
Chapter 26 Date manipulation (1.63 MB)
Chapter 26 Dealing with WMI dates (3.25 MB)
Chapter 26 More tips, tricks, and techniques (1.97 MB)
Chapter 26 Operators -as, -is, -replace, -join, -split, -contains, -in (7.38 MB)
Chapter 26 Playing with script blocks (3.52 MB)
Chapter 26 Setting default parameter values (5.29 MB)
Chapter 26 String manipulation (4.35 MB)
Chapter 26 Tips, tricks, and techniques (25.99 MB)
Chapter 27 Never the end (6.67 MB)
Chapter 27 Other resources you ll grow to love (7.4 MB)
Chapter 27 Now that I ve read the book, where do I start (3.94 MB)
Chapter 3 Accessing online help (4.2 MB)
Chapter 3 Accessing about topics (3.49 MB)
Chapter 3 Asking for help (3.93 MB)
Chapter 3 Interpreting the help (38.07 MB)
Chapter 3 Lab (8.97 MB)
Chapter 3 Lab answers (6.28 MB)
Chapter 3 Updatable help (5.02 MB)
Chapter 3 Using help to find commands (13.63 MB)
Chapter 3 Using the help system (11.67 MB)
Chapter 4 Aliases Nicknames for commands (5.19 MB)
Chapter 4 Common points of confusion (4.33 MB)
Chapter 4 Dealing with errors (4.73 MB)
Chapter 4 Lab (5.58 MB)
Chapter 4 Lab answers (1.21 MB)
Chapter 4 Not scripting, but running commands (9.79 MB)
Chapter 4 Running commands (22.39 MB)
Chapter 4 Support for external commands (11.38 MB)
Chapter 4 Taking shortcuts (9.82 MB)
Chapter 4 The anatomy of a command (5.38 MB)
Chapter 4 The cmdlet naming convention (7.88 MB)
Chapter 5 Lab (1.85 MB)
Chapter 5 Lab answers (2.71 MB)
Chapter 5 Navigating the filesystem (3.44 MB)
Chapter 5 Understanding how the filesystem is organized (8.3 MB)
Chapter 5 Using wildcards and literal paths (4.66 MB)
Chapter 5 Working with other providers (4.39 MB)
Chapter 5 Working with providers (7.59 MB)
Chapter 6 Common points of confusion (5.43 MB)
Chapter 6 Converting to HTML (5.74 MB)
Chapter 6 Exporting to a file (30.94 MB)
Chapter 6 Lab (7.6 MB)
Chapter 6 Lab answers (2.81 MB)
Chapter 6 Piping to a file (5.68 MB)
Chapter 6 The pipeline Connecting commands (2.97 MB)
Chapter 6 Using cmdlets that modify the system Killing processes (6.41 MB)
Chapter 7 Adding commands (2.75 MB)
Chapter 7 Command conflicts and removing extensions (3.32 MB)
Chapter 7 Common points of confusion (1.46 MB)
Chapter 7 Extensions Finding and adding modules (10.86 MB)
Chapter 7 Extensions Finding and installing modules (6.85 MB)
Chapter 7 Lab (3.74 MB)
Chapter 7 Lab answers (2.64 MB)
Chapter 7 Playing with a new module (4.5 MB)
Chapter 8 Common points of confusion (4 MB)
Chapter 8 Discovering objects Get-Member (6.8 MB)
Chapter 8 Lab (5.62 MB)
Chapter 8 Lab answers (2.58 MB)
Chapter 8 Objects Data by another name (10.8 MB)
Chapter 8 Objects until the end (11.32 MB)
Chapter 8 Selecting the properties you want (4.71 MB)
Chapter 8 Sorting objects (3.17 MB)
Chapter 8 Understanding why PowerShell uses objects (11.66 MB)
Chapter 8 Using object actions, or methods (5.69 MB)
Chapter 8 Using object attributes, or properties (5.5 MB)
Chapter 9 A practical interlude (4.25 MB)
Chapter 9 Finding the commands (2.92 MB)
Chapter 9 Lab (3 MB)
Chapter 9 Lab answer (887.07 KB)
Chapter 9 Learning to use the commands (13.79 MB)
Chapter 9 Tips for teaching yourself (4.19 MB)