Skip to Content
PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks
book

PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

by Michael Shepard, Chendrayan Venkatesan, Sherif Talaat, Brenton J.W. Blawat
February 2017
Beginner
737 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

Chapter 14. Script Creation Best Practices and Conclusion

This chapter explores the best practices for script creation. It begins by discussing the ways to create comment headers in your scripts. It then dives into how to comment on code in your scripts and different situations where you may need detailed comments. You will then explore the best practices for script creation and provide other considerations that developers need to have in order to develop their scripts. This chapter then explains source control and maintaining revisions, and concludes with the best practices for automation with PowerShell.

Best practices for script management

When you are creating and maintaining scripts, you may create multiple iterations of your scripts. Whether ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Mastering System Administration with PowerShell 6.x

Mastering System Administration with PowerShell 6.x

Michael Simmons
PowerShell in Practice

PowerShell in Practice

Richard Siddaway

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781787123755Purchase Link