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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

Working with shortcuts and the PSShortcut module

A shortcut is a file that contains a pointer to another file or URL. You can place a shell link shortcut to some executable program, such as PowerShell, on your Windows desktop. When you click the shortcut in Windows Explorer, Windows runs the target program. You can also create a shortcut to a URL.

Shell link shortcuts have the extension .LNK, while URL shortcuts have the .URL extension. Internally, a file shortcut has a binary structure which is not directly editable. For more details on the internal format, see https://docs.microsoft.com/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-shllink/.

The URL shortcut is a text document that you can edit with VS Code or Notepad. For more details on the URL shortcut file format, see http://www.lyberty.com/encyc/articles/tech/dot_url_format_-_an_unofficial_guide.html.

There are no built-in commands to manage shortcuts in PowerShell 7. As you saw earlier in this book, you can use older COM objects...

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