PART 1 Learning PowerShell

1 Welcome to PowerShell: 1.1 What is PowerShell?; 1.2 Soul of a new language; 1.3 Brushing up on objects; 1.4 Up and running with PowerShell; 1.5 Dude! Where’s my code?; 1.6 Summary
2 Foundations of PowerShell: 2.1 Getting a sense of the PowerShell language; 2.2 The core concepts; 2.3 Aliases and elastic syntax; 2.4 Parsing and PowerShell; 2.5 How the pipeline works; 2.6 Formatting and output; 2.7 Summary
3 Working with types: 3.1 Type management in the wild, wild West; 3.2 Basic types and literals; 3.3 Collections: dictionaries and hash tables; 3.4 Collections: arrays and sequences; 3.5 Type literals; 3.6 Type conversions; 3.7 Summary
4 Operators and expressions: 4.1 Arithmetic operators; 4.2 The assignment operators; 4.3 Comparison operators; 4.4 Pattern matching and text manipulation; 4.5 Logical and bitwise operators; 4.6 Summary
5 Advanced operators and variables: 5.1 Operators for working with types; 5.2 The unary operators; 5.3 Grouping and subexpressions; 5.4 Array operators; 5.5 Property and method operators; 5.6 The format operator; 5.7 Redirection and the redirection operators; 5.8 Working with variables; 5.9 Summary
6 Flow control in scripts: 6.1 The conditional statement; 6.2 Looping statements; 6.3 Labels, break, and continue; 6.4 The switch statement; 6.5 Flow control using cmdlets; 6.6 Statements as values; 6.7 A word about performance; 6.8 ummary
7 PowerShell functions: 7.1 Fundamentals of PowerShell functions; 7.2 Declaring formal parameters for a function; 7.3 Returning values from functions; 7.4 Using simple functions in a pipeline; 7.5 Managing function definitions in a session; 7.6 Variable scoping in functions; 7.7 Summary
8 Advanced functions and scripts: 8.1 PowerShell scripts; 8.2 Writing advanced functions and scripts; 8.3 Dynamic parameters and dynamicParam; 8.4 Documenting functions and scripts; 8.5 Summary
9 Using and authoring modules: 9.1 The role of a module system; 9.2 Module basics; 9.3 Working with modules; 9.4 Writing script modules; 9.5 Binary modules; 9.6 Summary
10 Module manifests and metadata: 10.1 Module folder structure; 10.2 Module manifest structure; 10.3 Production manifest elements; 10.4 Construction manifest elements; 10.5 Content manifest elements; 10.6 Language restrictions in a manifest; 10.7 Advanced module operations; 10.8 Summary
11 Metaprogramming with scriptblocks and dynamic code: 11.1 Scriptblock basics; 11.2 Building and manipulating objects; 11.3 Using the Select-Object cmdlet; 11.4 Dynamic modules; 11.5 Steppable pipelines; 11.6 A closer look at the type-system plumbing; 11.7 Extending the PowerShell language; 11.8 Building script code at runtime; 11.9 Compiling code with Add-Type; 11.10 Summary
12 Remoting and background jobs: 12.1 Getting started with remoting; 12.2 Applying PowerShell remoting; 12.3 Sessions and persistent connections; 12.4 Implicit remoting; 12.5 Background jobs in PowerShell; 12.6 Considerations when running commands remotely; 12.7 Summary
13 Remoting: configuring applications and services: 13.1 Remoting infrastructure in depth; 13.2 Building custom remoting services; 13.3 Summary
14 Errors and exceptions: 14.1 Error handling; 14.2 Dealing with errors that terminate execution; 14.3 Debugging with the host APIs; 14.4 Capturing session output; 14.5 PowerShell and the event log; 14.6 Summary
15 The PowerShell ISE and debugger: 15.1 The PowerShell ISE; 15.2 Using multiple PowerShell tabs; 15.3 Extending the ISE; 15.4 PowerShell script debugging features; 15.5 The PowerShell v2 debugger; 15.6 Command-line debugging; 15.7 Summary

PART 2 Using PowerShell

16 Working with files, text, and XML: 16.1 PowerShell and paths; 16.2 File processing; 16.3 Processing unstructured text; 16.4 XML structured text processing; 16.5 Summary
17 Extending your reach with .NET: 17.1 Using .NET from PowerShell; 17.2 PowerShell and the internet; 17.3 PowerShell and graphical user interfaces; 17.4 Summary
18 Working with COM: 18.1 Working with COM in PowerShell; 18.2 Automating Windows with COM; 18.3 Working with the WScript.Shell class; 18.4 Using COM to manage applications; 18.5 The WSH ScriptControl class; 18.6 Working with the Windows Task Scheduler; 18.7 Issues with COM; 18.8 Summary
19 Management objects: WMI and WS-MAN: 19.1 Working with WMI in PowerShell; 19.2 The WMI cmdlets; 19.3 The WMI object adapter; 19.4 Exploring WS-Man; 19.5 Summary
20 Responding in real time with eventing: 20.1 Foundations of event handling; 20.2 Synchronous events; 20.3 Asynchronous events; 20.4 Working with asynchronous .NET events; 20.5 Asynchronous event handling with scriptblocks; 20.6 Queued events and the Wait-Event cmdlet; 20.7 Working with WMI events; 20.8 Engine events; 20.9 Remoting and event forwarding; 20.10 How eventing works; 20.11 Summary
21 Security, security, security: 21.1 Introduction to security; 21.2 Security modeling; 21.3 Securing the PowerShell environment; 21.4 Signing scripts; 21.5 Writing secure scripts; 21.6 Using the SecureString class; 21.7 Summary