{"id":3721,"date":"2009-07-17T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T08:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2009\/07\/17\/free-powershell-v1-book-from-the-makers-of-powershell-plus\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:12:30","slug":"free-powershell-v1-book-from-the-makers-of-powershell-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/free-powershell-v1-book-from-the-makers-of-powershell-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Free PowerShell V1 Book From the Makers of PowerShell Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of you are already familiar with Dr Tobias Weltner.&#160; Tobias has been involved with Windows scripting for many many years.&#160; He was very active in the VBScript and WMI communities and then an very early adopter of PowerShell.&#160; He is on of the PowerShell MVPs and the inventor of the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idera.com\/Products\/PowerShell\/PowerShell-Plus\/\">PowerShell Plus<\/a> (I had Tobias demo this in one of my talks and people\u2019s jaws just dropped).&#160; <\/p>\n<p>This week Tobias is making waves again by releasing a <strong>FREE<\/strong> PowerShell book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/powershell.com\/cs\/blogs\/ebook\/\">Mastering PowerShell<\/a>\u201d.&#160;&#160; This appears to be a very comprehensive book at 567 pages.&#160;&#160; Here is the TOC:<\/p>\n<p>Chapters   <br \/>1. The PowerShell Console     <br \/>2. Interactive PowerShell     <br \/>3. Variables     <br \/>4. Arrays and Hashtables     <br \/>5. The PowerShell Pipeline     <br \/>6. Using Objects     <br \/>7. Conditions     <br \/>8. Loops     <br \/>9. Functions     <br \/>10. Scripts     <br \/>11. Finding and Avoiding Errors    <br \/>12. Command Discovery and Scriptblocks    <br \/>13. Text and Regular Expressions    <br \/>14. XML    <br \/>15. The File System    <br \/>16. The Registry    <br \/>17. Processes, Services, Event Logs    <br \/>18. Windows Management Instrumentation    <br \/>19. User Management    <br \/>20. 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