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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition)

Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition)

By : Chris Dent, Brenton J.W. Blawat
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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition)

Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition)

3.3 (8)
By: Chris Dent, Brenton J.W. Blawat

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a handy way to automate various chores. Working with these scripts effectively can be a difficult task. This comprehensive guide starts from scratch and covers advanced-level topics to make you a PowerShell expert. The first module, PowerShell Fundamentals, begins with new features, installing PowerShell on Linux, working with parameters and objects, and also how you can work with .NET classes from within PowerShell. In the next module, you’ll see how to efficiently manage large amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell. You’ll be able to make the most of PowerShell’s powerful automation feature, where you will have different methods to parse and manipulate data, regular expressions, and WMI. After automation, you will enter the Extending PowerShell module, which covers topics such as asynchronous processing and, creating modules. The final step is to secure your PowerShell, so you will land in the last module, Securing and Debugging PowerShell, which covers PowerShell execution policies, error handling techniques, and testing. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in using the PowerShell language.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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What is the PowerShell Gallery?


The PowerShell Gallery is a repository and distribution platform for scripts, modules, and Desired State Configuration (DSC) resources that have been written by Microsoft or other users of PowerShell.

In February 2016, Microsoft made the PowerShell Gallery public.

The PowerShell Gallery has parallels in other scripting languages, as shown in the following examples:

  • Perl has cpan.org
  • Python has PyPI
  • Ruby has RubyGems

Support for the gallery is included by default in PowerShell 5. For PowerShell 3 and 4, PowerShellGet (via the PackageManagement PowerShell modules preview package) must be installed:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51451

The PowerShell Gallery may be searched using https://www.powershellgallery.com:

Note

Private PowerShell Gallery:An internal version of the PowerShell Gallery may be configured based on the NuGet Gallery project:https://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery Once available, the repository may be registered using Register...

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