If you have the slightest interest in PowerShell, and you’re keen on learning more about it, I strongly recommend you download this book:
Mastering PowerShell (from PowerShell.com and written by Dr. Tobias Weltner)
It is an awesome, well written 567 page book that covers PowerShell through and through. Here are the chapters:
- The PowerShell Console
- Interactive PowerShell
- Variables
- Arrays and Hashtables
- The PowerShell Pipeline
- Using Objects
- Conditions
- Loops
- Functions
- Scripts
- Finding and Avoiding Errors
- Command Discovery and Scriptblocks
- Text and Regular Expressions
- XML
- The File System
- The Registry
- Processes, Services, Event Logs
- Windows Management Instrumentation
- User Management
- Your Own Cmdlets and Extensions
Thanks PowerShell.com!