Before you begin -- Meet PowerShell -- Using the help system -- Running commands -- Working with providers -- The pipeline: connecting commands -- Adding commands -- Objects: data by another name -- The pipeline, deeper -- Formatting -- and why it's done on the right -- Filtering and comparisons -- A practical interlude -- Remote control: one-to-one, and one-to-many -- Using Windows Management Instrumentation and CIM -- Multitasking with background jobs -- Working with many objects, one at a time -- Security alert! -- Variables: a place to store your stuff -- Input and output -- Sessions: remote control with less work -- You call this scripting? -- Improving your parameterized script -- Advanced remoting configuration -- Using regular expressions to parse text files -- Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques -- Using someone else's script -- Never the end -- PowerShell cheat sheet.