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Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

By : Chris Dent
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Book Image

Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
By: Chris Dent

Overview of this book

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).
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

Transactions

A transaction allows a set of changes to be grouped together and committed at the same time. Transactions are only supported under Windows PowerShell.

The registry provider supports transactions in Windows, as shown in the following code:

PS> Get-PSProvider
Name            Capabilities                         Drives 
----            ------------                         ------ 
Registry        ShouldProcess, Transactions          {HKLM, HKCU} 
Alias           ShouldProcess                        {Alias} 
Environment     ShouldProcess                        {Env} 
FileSystem      Filter, ShouldProcess, Credentials   {B, C, D} 
Function        ShouldProcess                        {Function} 
Variable        ShouldProcess                        {Variable} 

You can create a transaction as follows:

Start-Transaction 
$path = 'HKCU:\TestTransaction' 
New-Item $path -ItemType Key -UseTransaction 
Set-ItemProperty $path -Name 'Name' -Value...