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PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

You're reading from   PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks The art of automating and managing Windows environments

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Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123755
Length 737 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Appendix A. Next Steps

The goal of Module 1 has been to get you started with PowerShell. To this end, we have looked at several broad topics, such as:

  • Navigating PowerShell with Get-Command, Get-Help, and Get-Member
  • Using the Pipeline to combine the commands
  • Packaging code in scripts, functions, and modules
  • Interacting with files and WMI
  • Administering IIS

These skills will take you far in PowerShell, but this is just the beginning of what you can do. Here, I have collected some suggested "next steps" that you will find useful as skills to add to your PowerShell repertoire:

  • Explore advanced functions, such as:
    • Using common parameters
    • Pipeline the input
    • Parameter validation
  • PowerShell Remoting
  • PowerShell Workflows
  • Desired State Configuration
  • Explore miscellaneous PowerShell topics, including the following:
    • Working with .NET and COM objects
    • Working with SQL Server data
    • Building a GUI
  • Administering Microsoft systems such as:
    • Exchange
    • SQL Server
    • System Center

You should have no trouble finding resources to guide you through any of these topics. If you are stuck, the PowerShell community on StackOverflow, PowerShell.org (http://powershell.org/wp/), and reddit are very strong and encouraging to scripters at all levels of expertise.

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