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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):

David das Neves

Jan-Hendrik Peters

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

18. PowerShell ISE Hotkeys

19. Assessments

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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XML

The next file type that you must know and need to learn to work with is Extensible Markup Language (XML). It can be used for configuration and data storage. We will start with an example of storing and loading configuration data:

#XMLConfigFile
$XMLContent=@'
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Config>    
    <TargetCollectionDefault>Windows10_1</TargetCollectionDefault>
    <TargetCollection>
        <Collection company_id = "A">Windows10_1_A</Collection>
        <Collection company_id = "B">Windows10_12</Collection>
        <Collection company_id = "C">Windows10_1_B</Collection>
</TargetCollection>
<ADLocations>
<Mandant Name="School" Nummer="1" UserName="Guest" OrgName="School" OSDVersion="Win7" 
Domain="sl1.contoso.net" DomainDC="DC=sl1,DC=contoso,DC=net"></Mandant>       
<Mandant Name="School" Nummer="3" UserName="Guest" OrgName="School" OSDVersion="Win10" 
Domain="sl2.contoso.net"...

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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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