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

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

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exercises

What type of modules have compatibility information?
Why might a module have no compatibility information?
We’ve run Get-PSSession, and we can see that there is a remote session called WinPSCompatSession running on the localhost machine. What version of PowerShell is it running?
What sort of objects do we get back from commands run in the WinPSCompatSession?
Our local admin has disabled implicit Windows compatibility on our machine. How can we still import modules in Compatibility mode?
What CIM class contains instances of namespaces?
What is the purpose of the -OperationTimeoutSecs parameter on the Get-CimInstance cmdlet?
What cmdlet would we use to change the properties of a WMI object?
How do we pass method parameters to Invoke-CimMethod and what format do they need to be in?