Mastering PowerShell Scripting: Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell 7.1

by Chris Dent

Overview

PowerShell 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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800208575
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	788
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Chris Dent is an automation specialist with deep expertise in the PowerShell language. Chris is often found answering questions about PowerShell in both the UK and virtual PowerShell user groups. Chris has been developing in PowerShell since 2007 and has released several modules over the years.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to PowerShell
2. Modules and Snap-Ins
3. Working with Objects in PowerShell
4. Operators
5. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables
6. Conditional Statements and Loops
7. Working with .NET
8. Strings, Numbers, and Dates
9. Regular Expressions
10. Files, Folders, and the Registry
11. Windows Management Instrumentation
12. Working with HTML, XML, and JSON
13. Web Requests and Web Services
14. Remoting and Remote Management
15. Asynchronous Processing
16. Graphical User Interfaces
17. Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks
18. Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters
19. Classes and Enumerations
20. Building Modules
21. Testing
22. Error Handling
23. Debugging and Troubleshooting