Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting 2E

<Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting 2E> ▶Book Description
PowerShell scripts offer a handy way to automate various chores. Working with these scripts effectively can be a difficult task.

This comprehensive guide starts from scratch and covers advanced-level topics to make you a PowerShell expert. The first module, PowerShell Fundamentals, begins with new features, installing PowerShell on Linux, working with parameters and objects, and also how you can work with .NET classes from within PowerShell.

In the next module, you'll see how to efficiently manage large amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell. You'll be able to make the most of PowerShell's powerful automation feature, where you will have different methods to parse and manipulate data, regular expressions, and WMI.

After automation, you will enter the Extending PowerShell module, which covers topics such as asynchronous processing and, creating modules. The final step is to secure your PowerShell, so you will land in the last module, Securing and Debugging PowerShell, which covers PowerShell execution policies, error handling techniques, and testing.

By the end of the book, you will be an expert in using the PowerShell language.

▶What You Will Learn
- Optimize code through the use of functions, switches, and looping structures
- Install PowerShell on your Linux system
- Utilize variables, hashes, and arrays to store data
- Work with Objects and Operators to test and manipulate data
- Parse and manipulate different data types
- Write .NET classes with ease within the PowerShell
- Create and implement regular expressions in PowerShell scripts
- Deploy applications and code with PowerShell's Package management modules
- Leverage session-based remote management
- Manage files, folders, and registries through the use of PowerShell

▶Key Features
- Find quick solutions to automate your environment with ease
- Work with large amounts of data effortlessly with PowerShell data types and secure them
- Packed with real-world examples to automate and simplify the management of your Windows environment

▶Who This Book Is For
If you are a system administrator who wants to become an expert in controlling and automating your Windows environment, then this book is for you. It is also for those new to the PowerShell language.

▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Introduction to PowerShell, introduces PowerShell and why it is applicable to the IT community. This chapter discusses the types of Microsoft systems that leverage PowerShell and why it's important to learn this scripting language.
- Chapter 2, Working with PowerShell, talks about finding and using commands and parameters.
- Chapter 3, Modules and Snap-Ins, shows how to use PowerShell modules and snap-ins.
- Chapter 4, Working with Objects in PowerShell, shows how to work with objects in PowerShell.
- Chapter 5, Operators, shows how to use operators to test and manipulate data.
- Chapter 6, Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables, explains the different mechanisms within PowerShell that are able to store data. These include variables, hashes, and arrays.
- Chapter 7, Branching and Looping, shows how to explore conditional statements and how to implement loops in PowerShell.
- Chapter 8, Working with .NET, shows how to work with existing classes from the .NET framework in PowerShell.
- Chapter 9, Data Parsing and Manipulation, explains different methods to manipulate simple types in PowerShell.
- Chapter 10, Regular Expressions, shows the usage of regular expressions in PowerShell scripts. This will provide the user with the ability to provide quick data comparisons.
- Chapter 11, Files, Folders and the Registry, explores different methods to interact with common items on the file system and registry.
- Chapter 12, Windows Management Instrumentation, explores PowerShell’s ability to interact with WMI. This includes methods by which users can manipulate the WMI to obtain information pertaining to an operating system.
- Chapter 13, HTML, XML, and JSON, explores the XML structure and how PowerShell can interact with XML files. This chapter will also explore how to use XML files as answer files for PowerShell scripts.
- Chapter 14, Working with REST and SOAP, shows how to use REST or SOAP interfaces.
- Chapter 15, Remoting and Remote Management, explores the use of Windows remoting and remote sessions to execute against remote systems.
- Chapter 16, Testing, shows how to use PSScriptAnalyzer and Pester to improve the quality of your code.
- Chapter 17, Error Handling, shows how to leverage PowerShell’s error handling to work with errors.