Troubleshooting Windows Server with PowerShell

© Derek Schauland and Donald Jacobs 2016

Derek Schauland and Donald Jacobs, Troubleshooting Windows Server with PowerShell, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1851-8_8

8. Continuing to Learn As PowerShell Evolves

Derek Schauland¹  and Donald Jacobs²

(1)Greenville, Wisconsin, USA

(2)Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

So far in this book, we have shown you how to

• Work with event logs

• Gather detailed information from a server

• Discover installed applications

• Get Windows updates

• Manage running processes

• Work with services

There’s a lot of good information here to glean information from a computer both locally and remotely. In this chapter, we’ll talk about putting them together and ways to build this knowledge into more robust scripting.

Building Modules

PowerShell coding starts simple, ...