Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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Introducing PowerShell 7

This chapter covers the following recipes:

• Exploring new operators
• Exploring parallel processing with ForEach-Object
• Exploring Improvements in Foreach and ForEach-Object
• Improvements in Test-Connection
• Using Select-String
• Exploring the error view and Get-Error
• Exploring experimental features

Introduction

In Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7.1, you installed and configured PowerShell 7, along with VS Code and a new font. In this chapter, we look at PowerShell 7 and how it differs from Windows PowerShell. The recipes in this chapter illustrate some of the important new features that come with PowerShell 7.

Now that PowerShell is cross-platform, it has a new, expanded audience, one with a background ...