Free PowerShell Introduction/Getting Started book from MS Switzerland

Schweizer IT Professional und TechNet Blog - English version of Windows PowerShell course book available for download

"Due to its great popularity, we have decided to translate the Windows PowerShell course book to English. So if your mother tongue is not German, maybe you are interested in the English version instead. The book gives you a short introduction with many exercises about the interactive part of Windows PowerShell as well as some hints how to use other objects like WMI, .NET or COM objects like Excel or Internet Explorer.

The book is available for free and you can share it with all your colleagues or friends if you leave it as it is. The books can be used with or without the demo files available at this blog as well." [Post Leached in Full]

For English only speakers/readers, when going to the book download link above (i.e. "book is available" link) and you get to the "Download Windows PowerShell Handbuch" page, click on the "Fertig stellen" button to start the download. (Having a 50/50 chance, I of course hit the wrong one the first time  ;)

Here's an excerpt from the forward from the 44 page printable PDF.

"This “Windows PowerShell” book will give you an introduction to Windows PowerShell as well as practical examples, in order to give you a quick introduction to this subject even if you have no significant previous scripting experience. The book is explicitly not aimed at professional scripters; the extensive Windows PowerShell help and the many Internet forums and additional literature are designed to give experts everything they need. However, the newbies amongst you will hopefully find everything you need in this book to enable you to think about scripting in more detail, and hopefully quickly learn to enjoy being able to operate a computer even without a mouse.

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