Preface

We’ve been teaching and writing about Windows PowerShell for a long time. When Don began contemplating the first edition of this book, he realized that most PowerShell writers and teachers—including himself—were forcing our students to approach the shell as a kind of programming language. Most PowerShell books are into “scripting” by the third or fourth chapter, yet more and more PowerShell students were backing away from that programming-oriented approach. Those students wanted to use the shell as a shell, at least at first, and we weren’t delivering a learning experience that matched that desire.

So he decided to take a swing at it. A blog post on the Windows IT Pro website proposed a table of contents for this book, and ample feedback ...

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