Chris Dent - Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting: Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell Core 6.0, 3rd Edition

, Introduction to PowerShell , offers a brief introduction to some of the most important parts of PowerShell. Including the help subsystem, command naming, providers, and splatting.

, Modules and Snap-Ins , explores the use of modules in PowerShell and PowerShell Core, followed by a brief look at snap-ins in Windows PowerShell.

, Working with Objects in PowerShell , explores the different commands available to interact with objects. These utility commands are used again and again.

, Operators , takes a look at the different operators available in PowerShell. Operators are a fundamental part of life in PowerShell.

, Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables , takes a deep dive into the use of variables within PowerShell, including concepts such as variable scope.

, Branching and Looping , explores different loop operators, such as foreach, for, while, and do.

, Working with .NET , focuses on what .NET means to PowerShell and takes a look at type accelerators and the new using keyword.

, Strings, Numbers, and Dates , explores working with some of the most common datatypes in PowerShell.

, Regular Expressions , takes a look at the use of regular expressions in PowerShell with a number of detailed examples.

, Files, Folders, and the Registry , explains that working with the filesystem is an important part of any scripting language. The registry has long been a core part of the Microsoft operating system. This chapter takes a look at the commands used to interact with both the filesystem and the registry.

, Windows Management Instrumentation , explains that when there are no specific commands, WMI is often the first stop. This chapter explores the commands used to interact with WMI.

, HTML, XML, and JSON , are common text-based formats that must be either generated or interrogated using PowerShell. This chapter looks at some of the methods available and a number of the common pitfalls.

, Web Requests and Web Services , explains that the last 5 years has seen the use of web services, particularly REST, soar. This chapter takes a good look at working with REST, using GitHub as a reference site. SOAP is explored in Windows PowerShell using a custom-built site.

, Remoting and Remote Management , covers PowerShell remoting, which is an import tool stretching PowerShell out from a local machine. The introduction of PowerShell Core adds the ability to use PowerShell remoting to Mac and Linux machines.

, Asynchronous Processing , starts off with a brief exploration of jobs before taking a look at events and, finally, Runspace Pools.

, Scripts, Functions, and Filters , covers the building blocks of larger scripts and modules. This chapter explores the structure of scripts and functions and the use of named blocks in relation to the pipeline.

, Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters , explores the param block in PowerShell. The param block is incredibly versatile, allowing immediately input validation, and offering features such as argument completion.

, Classes and Enumerations , explores classes in PowerShell and showcases a few possible uses of classes, including parameter validation, argument transformation, and class-based DSC resources.