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Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

A number of you are already familiar with Dr Tobias Weltner.  Tobias has been involved with Windows scripting for many many years.  He was very active in the VBScript and WMI communities and then an very early adopter of PowerShell.  He is on of the PowerShell MVPs and the inventor of the amazing PowerShell Plus (I had Tobias demo this in one of my talks and people’s jaws just dropped). 

This week Tobias is making waves again by releasing a FREE PowerShell book “Mastering PowerShell”.   This appears to be a very comprehensive book at 567 pages.   Here is the TOC:

Chapters
1. The PowerShell Console
2. Interactive PowerShell
3. Variables
4. Arrays and Hashtables
5. The PowerShell Pipeline
6. Using Objects
7. Conditions
8. Loops
9. Functions
10. Scripts
11. Finding and Avoiding Errors
12. Command Discovery and Scriptblocks
13. Text and Regular Expressions
14. XML
15. The File System
16. The Registry
17. Processes, Services, Event Logs
18. Windows Management Instrumentation
19. User Management
20. Your Own Cmdlets and Extensions

Note that the book is focused on PowerShell V1.

Enjoy!

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Distinguished Engineer
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx

Published Friday, July 17, 2009 1:28 PM by PowerShellTeam

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# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

Fantastic. Thank you for sharing!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:05 AM by Adil Mughal

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

If everyone could be just half as generous - the world would be a much better place!

Thank you.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:33 AM by Art

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

This is really nice stuff. Thank you very much!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:38 AM by Alex

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

Great resource, just as Powershell is itself. Actually we've implemented a Powershell plugin on top of out open source ECMS with some operations supported http://blog.sensenet.hu/post/2008/10/19/Geek-paradise-access-your-ECMS-from-PowerShell-command-line.aspx

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:59 PM by Gergely Orosz

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

Cheers Man....Appreciate the Book !!!

Sunday, July 26, 2009 6:30 AM by Nitin Gupta (gupnit)

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

Thank you very much.

Really appreciate it!!!

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:17 AM by Vishal

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

That is how the experts thinks. Thank you.

Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:27 PM by Mehran

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

Amazing book, very concise, very informative, very easy to follow. Best powershell book I have used by far. Thanks for all your hardwork. Greatly appreciated.

Marcus

Monday, August 03, 2009 6:43 PM by Marcus Thornton

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

Thank you for the free book.  It will give me a chance to explore powershell more.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:50 PM by Stéphane Thinel

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

Right timing with the release of Win7. Thanks for the comprehensive book.

Friday, September 25, 2009 9:53 AM by Iyal

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

Much appreciated for the hard work!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:59 AM by Kim

# re: Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus

Great work! Thank you for the free book, much appreciated.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 3:40 AM by Simplexhub

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