Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting

Summary

This chapter explained how you can leverage PowerShell to manipulate XML files. To start, you learned the core make up of an XML structure. You continued to learn about the DOM tree structure and how parents, children, and siblings relate to each other in an XML file. You also to learned how to read XML files and navigate their structure. You learned that you can also use dot notation to navigate an XML structure in PowerShell. Finally, you saw the steps to add, modify, and remove content from an XML file. In the next chapter, you will learn different methods to manage Microsoft systems using PowerShell. You will learn items such as local user and group management, interacting with Window services, and working with Windows processes.