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Mastering PowerShell Scripting
Mastering PowerShell Scripting

Mastering PowerShell Scripting: Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell 7.1 , Fourth Edition

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Key benefits

  • Automate complex tasks, manipulate data, and secure your environment
  • Work with dual code for PowerShell 7 and Windows PowerShell to maintain compatibility with older versions
  • See PowerShell in action, from learning the fundamentals to creating classes, scripts, and modules

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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).

Who is this book for?

This 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.

What you will learn

  • Optimize code with functions, switches, and looping structures
  • Test and debug your scripts as well as raising and catching errors
  • Work with objects and operators to test and manipulate data
  • Parse and manipulate different data types
  • Use jobs, runspaces, and runspace pools to run code asynchronously
  • Write .NET classes with ease within PowerShell
  • Create and implement regular expressions in PowerShell scripts
  • Make use of advanced techniques to define and restrict the behavior of parameters

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Pubblicazioni interessanti scritti con il giusto livello tecnico ma soprattutto in modo chiaro.
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Alexander Wittig Aug 05, 2021
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I am a PowerShell enthusiast myself, this book is a roundhouse kick of Powershell! It's full of gems and little tricks and hints. From the basics, what is an object, to building GUIs and a ton of info about PowerShell 7 and its features. “PowerShell in a Month of Lunches’ used to by my go to I recommended new people, this is my new ‘goto’, it covers just about anything you want to do with PowerShell.
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Excellent detail and presentation.
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Miki Jun 07, 2022
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The book is well organised and clearly written. It is a good guide for someone who wants to learn more about the latest PowerShell release.
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As an IT Pro of over 15 years & using PowerShell for 5 or more of them, this book was so resourceful in assisting me when getting stuck on scripting a new tool to assist in my day to day! A must read for any IT Pro the author did an incredible job of covering the PowerShell platform in full detail!
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