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Windows Server 2019 & PowerShell All-in-One For Dummies
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Windows Server 2019 & PowerShell All-in-One For Dummies

by Sara Perrott
April 2019
Beginner
768 pages
18h 6m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4

Creating Your Own Scripts and Advanced Functions

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding and Creating PowerShell scripts

Bullet Setting an execution policy for your PowerShell script

Bullet Signing a PowerShell script with a Code Signing Certificate

Bullet Creating a PowerShell advanced function with VS Code

Tons of scripts are already purpose made and ready for download, but nothing is quite as satisfying as writing your own scripts and cmdlets. That feeling of accomplishment really can’t be beat when the script you’ve been working on is put to use.

With Infrastructure as Code (IaC) gaining in popularity, being able to write custom scripts helps to make you a more marketable employee, not just from a system administration standpoint, but also from a DevOps standpoint. IaC allows you to script the deployment of a server so that you can respond to the need to scale much more quickly than if you had to manually build a server.

In this chapter, I show you how to create your own custom components of PowerShell. You discover how to create new shell extensions and your own PowerShell scripts, and you find ...

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