"Covers PowerShell 3.0"--Cover

pt. 1 PowerShell fundamentals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. PowerShell hosts -- 3. Using the PowerShell help system -- 4. The basics of PowerShell syntax -- 5. Working with PSSnapins and modules -- 6. Operators -- 7. Working with objects -- 8. The PowerShell pipeline -- 9. Formatting -- pt. 2 PowerShell management -- 10. PowerShell Remoting -- 11. Background jobs and scheduling -- 12. Working with credentials -- 13. Regular expressions -- 14. Working with HTML and XML data -- 15. PSDrives and PSProviders -- 16. Variables, arrays, hash tables, and scriptblocks -- 17. PowerShell security -- 18. Advanced PowerShell syntax -- pt. 3 PowerShell scripting and automation -- 19. PowerShell's scripting language -- 20. Basic scripts and functions -- 21. Creating objects for output -- 22. Scope -- 23. PowerShell workflows -- 24. Advanced syntax for scripts and functions -- 25.Script modules and manifest modules -- 26. Custom formatting views -- 27. Custom type extensions -- 28. Data language and internationalization -- 29. Writing help -- 30. Error handling techniques -- 31. Debugging tools and techniques -- 32. Functions that work like cmdlets -- 33. Tips and tricks for creating reports -- pt. 4 Advanced PowerShell -- 34. Working with the Component Object Model (COM) -- 35. Working with .NET Framework objects -- 36. Accessing databases -- 37. Proxy functions -- 38. Building a GUI -- 39. WMI and CIM -- 40.Best practices

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