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Mastering PowerShell Scripting

You're reading from   Mastering PowerShell Scripting Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell 7.1

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800206540
Length 788 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Chris Dent Chris Dent
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PowerShell 2. Modules and Snap-Ins FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Objects in PowerShell 4. Operators 5. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables 6. Conditional Statements and Loops 7. Working with .NET 8. Strings, Numbers, and Dates 9. Regular Expressions 10. Files, Folders, and the Registry 11. Windows Management Instrumentation 12. Working with HTML, XML, and JSON 13. Web Requests and Web Services 14. Remoting and Remote Management 15. Asynchronous Processing 16. Graphical User Interfaces 17. Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks 18. Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters 19. Classes and Enumerations 20. Building Modules 21. Testing 22. Error Handling 23. Debugging and Troubleshooting 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
25. Index

Remoting over SSH

PowerShell Core introduced the concept of remoting over SSH. This provides a useful alternative to remoting over HTTPS, avoiding the burden of managing certificates:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/866b558771a20cca3daa47f300e830b31a24ee95/docs/new-features/remoting-over-ssh

The SSH transport for remoting cannot be used from Windows PowerShell, only PowerShell 6 and 7.

Connecting from Windows to Linux

If connecting from Windows, an SSH client must be installed.

In Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019, you can enable OpenSSH as an optional feature. For example:

Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Client~~~~0.0.1.0

The feature is documented on Microsoft Docs:

https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse

Alternatively, the openssh package can be installed using the Chocolatey package manager (http://chocolatey.org):

choco install openssh

Depending on the desired...

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