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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568457
Pages 674 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Author (1):
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 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

Exploring compatibility solution limitations

In the previous recipe, you saw how you could use the Windows PowerShell compatibility mechanism built into PowerShell 7. This solution provides you with access to modules that their owners have not yet converted to run natively in PowerShell 7. This solution provides improved compatibility but does have some minor limitations.

The first limitation is discovery. You can't easily discover unsupported commands. You cannot, for example, use PowerShell 7's Get-Module to list the ServerManager module, even though you can use Get-Command to discover commands inside the module.

Another limitation of the compatibility solution is that PowerShell 7 does not import any display or type XML contained in the module. The result is that some commands may display output slightly differently. There are ways around this, including just running the entire command inside a remoting session.

Despite the compatibility solution, some Windows...

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