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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

You're reading from Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 Automate and control administrative tasks using DevOps principles

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788838986

Length 552 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

das Neves

Jan-Hendrik Peters

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Current PowerShell Versions FREE CHAPTER

2. PowerShell ISE Versus VSCode

3. Basic Coding Techniques

4. Advanced Coding Techniques

5. Writing Reusable Code

6. Working with Data

7. Understanding PowerShell Security

8. Just Enough Administration

9. DevOps with PowerShell

10. Creating Your Own PowerShell Repository

11. VSCode and PowerShell Release Pipelines

12. PowerShell Desired State Configuration

13. Working with Windows

14. Working with Azure

15. Connecting to Microsoft Online Services

16. Working with SCCM and SQL Server

17. PowerShell Deep Dives

1. PowerShell ISE Hotkeys

2. Assessments

3. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Questions

Which technique is used to protect your credentials when SecureStrings are used?
Which operator allows the redirection of different streams to files?
Why is it important to filter as early as possible?
Which PowerShell type can be used to provide parallelism apart from background jobs?
What does CRUD stand for when referring to APIs?
Why is Invoke-RestMethod better suited for API calls than Invoke-WebRequest?
What are the differences between object, WMI, and engine events?
How are the elements called that you need to format data as table, lists, or in a wide format?
What is the benefit of using type extensions compared to Add-Member?

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Authors (2)

das Neves

das Neves

David das Neves lives with his wife and a small Norwich Terrier close to Dachau, Germany. He was born and grew up in Germany, but his name is Portuguese and means "from the snows.". He is a typical IT guy and started his career as a software engineer. Afterward, he moved into consultancy and customer-facing roles at companies like Microsoft and Google, with the latest stop being Media Markt Saturn. There he works as a Principal Engineer focusing on the Cloud topics, directly reporting to the VP level. Besides his work, he is strongly connected to the community, writes articles, frequently posts on LinkedIn, organizes several User Groups and events in EMEA, and speaks at international conferences. Acknowledgement: I want to thank my wife, who is tolerating my huge time investments towards my work and this book. You are allowing me to do so.

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Jan-Hendrik Peters

Jan-Hendrik Peters

Jan-Hendrik Peters is an automation and DevOps professional by day, and a developer for the AutomatedLab framework by night. After working at an international retailer automating distributed POS support systems, he started working as a premier field engineer for Microsoft Germany, where he helps customers automate their infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud. When he is not working, he likes to spend his time brewing his own beer, curing his own bacon, and generally doing manual labor.

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