Windows PowerShell™ 2.0: Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

Chapter 10. Managing File Systems, Security, and Auditing

• Managing PowerShell Drives, Directories, and Files

• Working with File Contents

• Accessing Security Descriptors

• Configuring File and Directory Permissions

• Configuring File and Directory Auditing

In this chapter, you’ll learn techniques for managing file systems and security—and there’s a lot more flexibility to this than most people realize. You can create, copy, move, and delete individual directories and files. You can read and write files, and you also can append data to files and clear the contents of files. You can examine and set access control lists on directories and files, and you also can take ownership of directories and files. Moreover, because you are working with Windows PowerShell, ...