Keep up with changes introduced in PowerShell Core 6.0
Easily maintain appropriate compatibility with older versions
Automate complex tasks, manipulate data, and secure your environment with PowerShell Core 6.0
Description
PowerShell scripts offer a handy way to automate various chores, however working effectively with these scripts can be a difficult task.
This comprehensive guide starts with the fundamentals before moving on to advanced-level topics to help you become a PowerShell Core 6.0 expert. The first module, PowerShell Core 6.0 Fundamentals, begins with the new features of PowerShell Core 6.0, installing it on Linux, and working with parameters, objects and .NET classes from within PowerShell Core 6.0. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll see how to efficiently manage large amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell Core 6.0. You'll be able to make the most of PowerShell Core 6.0's powerful automation feature, where you will have different methods available to parse data and manipulate regular expressions and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). After having explored automation, you will enter the extending PowerShell Core 6.0 module, covering asynchronous processing and desired state configuration. In the last module, you will learn to extend PowerShell Core 6.0 using advanced scripts and filters, and also debug issues along with working on error handling techniques.
By the end of this book, you will be an expert in scripting with PowerShell Core 6.0.
Who is this book for?
If you are a system administrator who wants to become an expert in controlling and automating your Windows environment, then Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting is for you. It is also ideal for those new to the PowerShell language.
What you will learn
Optimize code through the use of functions, switches, and looping structures
Work with objects and operators to test and manipulate data
Parse and manipulate different data types
Create scripts and functions using PowerShell
Use jobs, events, and popular public modules which assist with implementing multithreading
Write .NET classes with ease within the PowerShell
Create and implement regular expressions in PowerShell scripts
Make use of advanced techniques to define and restrict the behavior of parameters
I've spent most of my career in the UNIX/Linux/*nix environment and needed to write some Windows power shell scripts. The project was then cancelled (indefinite delay), but I am impressed with what I read up to that point. This book is for people who already understand programming and just need to know how to approach PowerShell.
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KyleMay 05, 2020
2
The writing style is poor. Concepts are introduced without being fully explained. Examples are short, badly organized and lacking. If I had no experience I would find this book extremely frustrating.
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treesaDec 15, 2019
3
Too academic. Focus is on semantics with only oblique references as to practical applications. Doesn’t explain in what context you would use this.
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Ignaci0sOct 20, 2019
5
In general the book is good. The content is appropriate and the writer knows how to makes it easy to learn PowerShell. This is a good book to begin working with this script language.
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Kindle CustomerOct 15, 2019
5
Took me from beginners into experience person of so it find myself to done a page, but the good-looking of information infinitiveTransmission it good way
Chris Dent is an automation specialist with deep expertise in the PowerShell language. Chris is often found answering questions about PowerShell in both the UK and virtual PowerShell user groups. Chris has been developing in PowerShell since 2007 and has released several modules over the years.
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