Outline of This Book

This book is divided into nine chapters, each covering a major facet of Windows PowerShell. The following sections describe these parts:

Chapter 1 Okay, so you've decided you need to learn Windows PowerShell—but where do you begin? Start here in Chapter 1! In this chapter, I talk about the difference between Windows PowerShell and the VBScript. There are actually times when you will use both in the same script.

Chapter 2 This chapter presents an overview of some of the more useful cmdlets included with the basic installation of Windows PowerShell.

Chapter 3 Windows PowerShell provides a consistent way to access information external to the shell environment. To do this, it uses providers. This chapter shows how to leverage the ...

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