This complete guide takes you on a tour of PowerShell from the basics to its advanced functionality, helping you automate your tedious and time-consuming system admin tasksKey FeaturesAutomate complex tasks, manipulate data, and secure your environmentWork with dual code for PowerShell 7 and Windows PowerShell to maintain compatibility with older versionsSee PowerShell in action, from learning the fundamentals to creating classes, scripts, and modulesBook DescriptionPowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, but working with them can be daunting. Mastering PowerShell Scripting takes away the fear and helps you navigate through PowerShell's capabilities.This extensively revised edition includes new chapters on debugging and troubleshooting and creating GUIs (online chapter). Learn the new features of PowerShell 7.1 by working with parameters, objects, and .NET classes from within PowerShell 7.1.This comprehensive guide starts with the basics before moving on to advanced topics, including asynchronous processing, desired state configuration, using more complex scripts and filters, debugging issues, and error-handling techniques. Explore how to efficiently manage substantial amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell 7.1. This book will help you to make the most of PowerShell's automation features, using different methods to parse data, manipulate regular expressions, and work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).What you will learnOptimize code with functions, switches, and looping structuresTest and debug your scripts as well as raising and catching errorsWork with objects and operators to test and manipulate dataParse and manipulate different data typesUse jobs, runspaces, and runspace pools to run code asynchronouslyWrite .NET classes with ease within PowerShellCreate and implement regular expressions in PowerShell scriptsMake use of advanced techniques to define and restrict the behavior of parametersWho this book is forThis book is for system administrators who want to automate and speed up their processes using PowerShell and Windows PowerShell. You'll need to know the basics of operating systems, but beginners with no prior experience with PowerShell will have no trouble following along.Table of ContentsIntroduction to PowerShellModules and Snap-InsWorking with Objects in PowerShellOperatorsVariables, Arrays, and HashtablesConditional Statements and LoopsWorking with .NETStrings, Numbers, and DatesRegular ExpressionsFiles, Folders, and the RegistryWindows Management InstrumentationWorking with HTML, XML, and JSONWeb Requests and Web ServicesRemoting and Remote ManagementAsynchronous ProcessingGraphical User InterfacesScripts, Functions, and Script BlocksParameters, Validation, and Dynamic ParametersClasses and EnumerationsBuilding ModulesTestingError HandlingDebugging and Troubleshooting
✔ Author(s): Chris Dent
✔ Title: Mastering PowerShell Scripting: Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell 7.1, 4th Edition
✔ Rating : 4.7 out of 5 base on (100 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1800206542
✔ ISBN-13: 9781800206540
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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