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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By : das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

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By: das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters

Overview of this book

Beginning with an overview of the different versions of PowerShell, Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 introduces you to VSCode and then dives into helping you understand the basic techniques in PowerShell scripting. You will cover advanced coding techniques, learn how to write reusable code as well as store and load data with PowerShell. This book will help you understand PowerShell security and Just Enough Administration, enabling you to create your own PowerShell repository. The last set of chapters will guide you in setting up, configuring, and working with Release Pipelines in VSCode and VSTS, and help you understand PowerShell DSC. In addition to this, you will learn how to use PowerShell with Windows, Azure, Microsoft Online Services, SCCM, and SQL Server. The final chapter will provide you with some use cases and pro tips. By the end of this book, you will be able to create professional reusable code using security insight and knowledge of working with PowerShell Core 6.0 and its most important capabilities.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Understanding PowerShell Security

In the last chapter, we saw how to work with different kinds of data and different file formats to aid you with storing and transferring PowerShell objects. This data can use some encryption.

One of the most important topics nowadays is security. This topic introduces the current situation in the field and explains the most important topics concerned with securing the execution of PowerShell. Unfortunately, PowerShell is commonly used as a scripting language in pentesting and hacking frameworks. Does this mean that PowerShell itself is a vulnerability? This chapter provides guidance around all the topics in the security area, enabling and configuring them.

These are the topics we'll be covering in this chapter:

  • The current situation around PowerShell
  • Is PowerShell a vulnerability?
  • Principle of Least Privilege
  • The community
  • Version 5
  • Evergreen...
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