Windows PowerShell Step by Step

Ed Wilson is the Microsoft Scripting Guy and a well-known scripting expert. He writes the daily Hey Scripting Guy! Blog--the most popular blog on TechNet. He has also spoken at TechEd and at the Microsoft internal TechReady conferences. He has written more than a dozen books, including nine on Windows scripting that were published by Microsoft Press. His books include  Windows PowerShell Best Practices and  Microsoft VBScript Step by Step.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Overview of Windows PowerShell 5.0
Chapter 2: Using Windows PowerShell cmdlets 
Chapter 3: Understanding and using Windows PowerShell providers 
Chapter 4: Using Windows PowerShell remoting and jobs 
Chapter 5: Using Windows PowerShell scripts  
Chapter 6: Working with functions 
Chapter 7: Creating advanced functions and modules
Chapter 8: Using the Windows PowerShell ISE 
Chapter 9: Working with Windows PowerShell profiles 
Chapter 10: Using WMI  
Chapter 11: Querying WMI  
Chapter 12: Remoting WMI  
Chapter 13: Calling WMI methods on WMI classes 
Chapter 14: Using the CIM cmdlets  
Chapter 15: Working with Active Directory  
Chapter 16: Working with the AD DS module   
Chapter 17: Deploying Active Directory by using Windows PowerShell  
Chapter 18: Debugging scripts   
Chapter 19: Handling errors 
Chapter 20: Using the Windows PowerShell workflow 
Chapter 21: Managing Windows PowerShell DSC  
Chapter 22: Using the PowerShell Gallery 
Appendix A: Windows PowerShell scripting best practices 
Appendix B: Regular expressions quick reference 
Index 
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