Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition - Dent, Chris

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Résumé :
This complete guide takes you on a tour of PowerShell from the basics to its advanced functionality, helping you automate your tedious and time-consuming system admin tasksKey FeaturesAutomate complex tasks, manipulate data, and secure your environment Work with dual code for PowerShell 7 and Windows PowerShell to maintain compatibility with older versions See PowerShell in action, from learning the fundamentals to creating classes, scripts, and modules Book Description PowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, but working with them can be daunting. Mastering PowerShell Scripting takes away the fear and helps you navigate through PowerShell's capabilities.This extensively revised edition includes new chapters on debugging and troubleshooting and creating GUIs (online chapter). Learn the new features of PowerShell 7.1 by working with parameters, objects, and .NET classes from within PowerShell 7.1. This comprehensive guide starts with the basics before moving on to advanced topics, including asynchronous processing, desired state configuration, using more complex scripts and filters, debugging issues, and error-handling techniques. Explore how to efficiently manage substantial amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell 7.1. This book will help you to make the most of PowerShell's automation features, using different methods to parse data, manipulate regular expressions, and work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).What you will learnOptimize code with functions, switches, and looping structures Test and debug your scripts as well as raising and catching errors Work with objects and operators to test and manipulate data Parse and manipulate different data types Use jobs, runspaces, and runspace pools to run code asynchronously Write .NET classes with ease within PowerShell Create and implement regular expressions in PowerShell scripts Make use of advanced techniques to define and restrict the behavior of parameters Who this book is for This book is for system administrators who want to automate and speed up their processes using PowerShell and Windows PowerShell. You'll need to know the basics of operating systems, but beginners with no prior experience with PowerShell will have no trouble following along.Table of ContentsIntroduction to PowerShell Modules and Snap-Ins Working with Objects in PowerShell Operators Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables Conditional Statements and Loops Working with .NET Strings, Numbers, and Dates Regular Expressions Files, Folders, and the Registry Windows Management Instrumentation Working with HTML, XML, and JSON Web Requests and Web Services Remoting and Remote Management Asynchronous Processing Graphical User Interfaces Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters Classes and Enumerations Building Modules Testing Error Handling Debugging and Troubleshooting

Biographie:
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.