Mastering PowerShell Scripting

• Automate 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 DescriptionPowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, although working effectively with these scripts can be challenging. Mastering PowerShell Scripting helps you to 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 learn

• Optimize 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 forThis book is for system administrators who want to automate and speed up their processes using PowerShell and Windows PowerShell. Some familiarity with operating systems would be useful, but not essential.