Book description
Grasp advanced PowerShell Core 6.0 functionalities to automate your environment
Key Features
- Keep up with changes introduced in PowerShell Core 6.0
- Easily maintain appropriate compatibility with older versions
- Automate complex tasks, manipulate data, and secure your environment with PowerShell Core 6.0
Book Description
PowerShell scripts offer a handy way to automate various chores, however working effectively with these scripts can be a difficult task.
This comprehensive guide starts with the fundamentals before moving on to advanced-level topics to help you become a PowerShell Core 6.0 expert. The first module, PowerShell Core 6.0 Fundamentals, begins with the new features of PowerShell Core 6.0, installing it on Linux, and working with parameters, objects and .NET classes from within PowerShell Core 6.0. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll see how to efficiently manage large amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell Core 6.0. You'll be able to make the most of PowerShell Core 6.0's powerful automation feature, where you will have different methods available to parse data and manipulate regular expressions and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). After having explored automation, you will enter the extending PowerShell Core 6.0 module, covering asynchronous processing and desired state configuration. In the last module, you will learn to extend PowerShell Core 6.0 using advanced scripts and filters, and also debug issues along with working on error handling techniques.
By the end of this book, you will be an expert in scripting with PowerShell Core 6.0.
What you will learn
- Optimize code through the use of functions, switches, and looping structures
- Work with objects and operators to test and manipulate data
- Parse and manipulate different data types
- Create scripts and functions using PowerShell
- Use jobs, events, and popular public modules which assist with implementing multithreading
- Write .NET classes with ease within the PowerShell
- Create and implement regular expressions in PowerShell scripts
- Make use of advanced techniques to define and restrict the behavior of parameters
Who this book is for
If you are a system administrator who wants to become an expert in controlling and automating your Windows environment, then Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting is for you. It is also ideal for those new to the PowerShell language.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1: Exploring PowerShell Fundamentals
- Introduction to PowerShell
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Modules and Snap-ins
- Introducing modules
- PowerShell Core and the WindowsCompatibility module
- Introducing snap-ins
- Summary
- Working with Objects in PowerShell
- Operators
- Section 2: Working with Data
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Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables
- Naming and creating variables
- Variable commands
- Variable provider
- Variable scope
- Type and type conversion
- Objects assigned to variables
- Arrays
- Hashtables
- Lists, dictionaries, queues, and stacks
- Summary
- Branching and Looping
- Working with .NET
- Strings, Numbers, and Dates
- Regular Expressions
- Files, Folders, and the Registry
- Windows Management Instrumentation
- HTML, XML, and JSON
- Web Requests and Web Services
- Section 3: Automating with PowerShell
- Remoting and Remote Management
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Asynchronous Processing
- Working with jobs
- Reacting to events
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Using Runspaces and Runspace pools
- Creating a PowerShell instance
- The Invoke and BeginInvoke methods
- The EndInvoke method and the PSDataCollection object
- Running multiple instances
- Using the RunspacePool object
- About the InitialSessionState object
- Using the InitialSessionState and RunspacePool objects
- Using Runspace-synchronized objects
- Summary
- Section 4: Extending PowerShell
- Scripts, Functions, and Filters
- Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters
- Classes and Enumerations
- Building Modules
- Testing
- Error Handling
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2019
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789536669
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