Chapter 1. Instant Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell has been especially created to provide you with all the information that you need to get while setting up and running your Windows Server environment with PowerShell. In this book, you will learn the basics of PowerShell 3.0, get started with discovering various features in PowerShell, and discover some tips and tricks on how you can automate your Windows server environment with PowerShell.

This book holds the accompanying sections:

So, what's PowerShell? helps in finding out what PowerShell is, what you can do with it, various new features in it, and why it's so great.

Installation will help you learn how you can download and install PowerShell 3.0 with minimum fuss, and then set it up so that you can use it as soon as possible.

Quick start – configuring default security policy in PowerShell will give you an insight on the built-in default script security features in PowerShell 3.0.

Top 7 features you need to know about will teach you how to use the top seven features that can be implemented using various PowerShell modules and cmdlets.

People and places you should get to know provides you with many useful links to the project page and forums as well as a number of helpful articles, tutorials, blogs, and Twitter feeds of PowerShell super contributors.