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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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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Leveraging compatibility

In this chapter so far, you have looked at the issue of compatibility between Windows PowerShell and PowerShell 7. You have examined the new features in PowerShell 7 and looked at the Windows PowerShell compatibility mechanism.

The compatibility mechanism allows you to use incompatible Windows PowerShell cmdlets inside a PowerShell session. Incompatible Windows PowerShell cmdlets/modules rely on features that, while present in the full .NET CLR, are not available in .NET Core 5.0 (and are unlikely ever to be added to .NET Core). For example, the Get-WindowsFeature cmdlet uses a .NET type System.Diagnostics.Eventing.EventDescriptor, as you saw earlier. Although the cmdlet cannot run natively in PowerShell 7, the compatibility mechanism allows you to make use of the cmdlet's functionality.

When Import-Module begins loading an incompatible module, it checks to see if a remoting session with the name WinPSCompatSession exists. If that remoting session...

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