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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

PSSessions

PSSessions use PowerShell remoting to communicate between servers. PSSessions can be used for anything from remote commands and script execution to providing a remote shell.

By default, PSSessions use the Microsoft.PowerShell configuration, described by the built-in $PSSessionConfigurationName variable. Remoting connections therefore always default to connecting to Windows PowerShell. Administrative rights are required to view and change session configuration information.

If you are creating a session to the local system, the -EnableNetworkAccess parameter should be added to the following commands. This parameter is only applicable to sessions that are created from and connect to the same system.

New-PSSession

Sessions are created using the New-PSSession command. In the following example, a session is created on a computer named PSTEST:

PS> New-PSSession -ComputerName PSTEST
Id   Name       ComputerName   State    ConfigurationName      Availability...