Free Powershell Book and User Group Info

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03/22/2009

If you are serious about your Windows Server IT Administration, then this post is for you!

I got this post in my inbox this morning and needed to forward it around, free books are always a good thing! Powershell MVP Keith Hill has published an eBook which contains much of the contents of his blog. It’s now downloadable from his blog on Spaces.

Here’s a sample of the contents:

Introduction
Item 1: Four Cmdlets that are the Keys to Discovery within Powershell
Key #1: Get-Command
Key #2: Get-Help
Key #3: Get-Member
Key #4: Get-PSDrive
Powershell 2.0 Update
Item 2: Understanding Output
Output is Always a .NET Object
Function Output Consists of Everything That Isn't Captured
Other Types of Output That Can't Be Captured
Item 3: Know What Objects Are Flowing Down the Pipeline
Item 4: Output Cardinality - Scalars, Collections and Empty Sets - Oh My!
Working with Scalars
Working with Collections
Working with Empty Sets
Item 5: Use the Objects, Luke. Use the Objects!
Item 6: Know Your Output Formatters
Item 7: Understanding PowerShell Parsing Modes
Item 8: Understanding ByPropertyName Pipeline Bound Parameters
Item 9: Understanding ByValue Pipeline Bound Parameters
Item 10: Regular Expressions - One of the Power Tools in Powershell
…

DOWNLOAD: https://keithhill.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!6930.entry

Virtual Powershell User Group

And on a related topic, another Powershell MVP, Marco Shaw back in Canada has established a Virtual Powershell User Group. The group has been meeting monthly via LiveMeeting over the last number of months with a MVP’s and Microsoft staff presenting on a variety of Powershell related topics. All of the past meetings have been recorded are available for viewing at the link below.

https://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/master-post-wpvug.html