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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Thomas Lee
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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Thomas Lee

Overview of this book

With a foreword from PowerShell creator Jeffrey Snover, this heavily updated edition is designed to help you learn how to use PowerShell 7.1 effectively and manage the core roles, features, and services of Windows Server in an enterprise setting. All scripts are compatible with both Window Server 2022 and 2019. This latest edition equips you with over 100 recipes you'll need in day-to-day work, covering a wide range of fundamental and more advanced use cases. We look at how to install and configure PowerShell 7.1, along with useful new features and optimizations, and how the PowerShell compatibility solution bridges the gap to older versions of PowerShell. Topics include using PowerShell to manage networking and DHCP in Windows Server, objects in Active Directory, Hyper-V, and Azure. Debugging is crucial, so the book shows you how to use some powerful tools to diagnose and resolve issues with Windows Server.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Using PowerShell Script Analyzer

PowerShell Script Analyzer is a PowerShell module produced by the PowerShell team that analyzes your code and provides opportunities to improve. You can download the latest version of the module from the PowerShell Gallery.

If you are using the VS Code editor to develop your code, you should know that Script Analyzer is built into VS Code. So as you are developing your PowerShell script, VS Code highlights any errors that Script Analyzer finds. VS Code, therefore, helps you to write better code straight away.

Another feature of PowerShell Script Analyzer is the ability to reformat PowerShell code to be more readable. You have numerous settings you can configure to tell Script Analyzer how it should reformat your code.

Getting ready

This recipe uses SRV1, a domain-joined Windows Server 2022 host.

How to do it...

  1. Discovering the PowerShell Script Analyzer module
    Find-Module -Name&...