You're reading from PowerShell 7 Workshop Learn how to program with PowerShell 7 on Windows, Linux, and the Raspberry Pi

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801812986

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Nick Parlow

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to PowerShell 7 – What It Is and How to Get It FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring PowerShell Cmdlets and Syntax

4. Chapter 3: The PowerShell Pipeline – How to String Cmdlets Together

5. Chapter 4: PowerShell Variables and Data Structures

6. Chapter 5: PowerShell Control Flow – Conditionals and Loops

7. Chapter 6: PowerShell and Files – Reading, Writing, and Manipulating Data

8. Chapter 7: PowerShell and the Web – HTTP, REST, and JSON

9. Part 2: Scripting and Toolmaking

10. Chapter 8: Writing Our First Script – Turning Simple Cmdlets into Reusable Code

11. Chapter 9: Don’t Repeat Yourself – Functions and Scriptblocks

12. Chapter 10: Error Handling – Oh No! It’s Gone Wrong!

13. Chapter 11: Creating Our First Module

14. Chapter 12: Securing PowerShell

15. Part 3: Using PowerShell

16. Chapter 13: Working with PowerShell 7 and Windows

17. Chapter 14: PowerShell 7 for Linux and macOS

18. Chapter 15: PowerShell 7 and the Raspberry Pi

19. Chapter 16: Working with PowerShell and .NET

20. Answers to Activities and Exercises

21. Index

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Introduction to CIM and WMI

CIM and WMI are based on the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standard introduced by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) in 1996. WMI is Microsoft’s implementation of a set of tools based on WBEM, released in 1998, and CIM is an open standard from the DMTF that defines how the entities in an environment are represented and related. It was released in 1999. In a Windows environment, CIM uses elements of WMI but uses a different set of protocols to access them; WMI uses the Distributed Common Object Model (DCOM) protocol, which is proprietary, and CIM uses the Web Services for Management (WS-MAN) protocol over HTTP, which we saw in Chapter 12, Securing PowerShell.