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Enterprise PowerShell Scripting Bootcamp

By : Brenton J.W. Blawat
Book Image

Enterprise PowerShell Scripting Bootcamp

By: Brenton J.W. Blawat

Overview of this book

Enterprise PowerShell Scripting Bootcamp explains how to create your own repeatable PowerShell scripting framework. This framework contains script logging methodologies, answer file interactions, and string encryption and decryption strategies. This book focuses on evaluating individual components to identify the system’s function, role, and unique characteristics. To do this, you will leverage built-in CMDlets and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to explore Windows services, Windows processes, Windows features, scheduled tasks, and disk statistics. You will also create custom functions to perform a deep search for specific strings in files and evaluate installed software through executable properties. We will then discuss different scripting techniques to improve the efficiency of scripts. By leveraging several small changes to your code, you can increase the execution performance by over 130%. By the end of this book, you will be able to tie all of the concepts together in a PowerShell-based Windows server scanning script. This discovery script will be able to scan a Windows server to identify a multitude of components.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Enterprise PowerShell Scripting Bootcamp
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
3
Working with Answer Files
Index

About the Reviewer

Tim Amico is a passionate technology leader with years of consulting experience around designing, implementing, and managing Endpoint and Mobility management infrastructures for small organizations to large global enterprise environments. He has continued to define technology solutions that help solve complex business problems and deliver highly customized solutions to clients.

He currently works at LMI as a systems engineer, managing their System Center Configuration Manager, Active Directory, and Azure IaaS environments. LMI is a not-for-profit government consulting firm that designs and implements solutions to some of the toughest problems facing government managers in logistics, information technology, and resource allocation. For more information about LMI, visit www.lmi.org.

You can follow Tim on twitter at @tim_amico or his blog at http://www.deploymentlife.com.