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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568457
Length 674 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise 5. Exploring .NET 6. Managing Active Directory 7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise 8. Implementing Enterprise Security 9. Managing Storage 10. Managing Shared Data 11. Managing Printing 12. Managing Hyper-V 13. Managing Azure 14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell 15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Creating a local PowerShell repository

In the Exploring PowerShellGet and the PS Gallery recipe, you saw how you could download PowerShell modules and more from the PS Gallery. You can install them or save them for investigation. One nice feature is that after you install a module using Install-Module, you can later use Update-Module to update it.

An alternative to using a public repository is to create a private internal repository. You can then use the commands in the PowerShellGet module to find, install, and manage your modules. A private repository allows you to create your modules and put them into a local repository for your IT professionals, developers, or other users to access.

There are several ways of setting up an internal repository. One approach would be to use a third-party tool such as ProGet from Inedo (see https://inedo.com/ for details on ProGet).

A simple way to create a repository is to set up an SMB file share. Then, you use the Register-PSRepository...

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