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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

Remoting on Linux

Microsoft provides instructions for installing PowerShell on Linux; these should be followed before attempting to configure remoting:

https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-core-on-linux

Once installed, it is possible to make PowerShell the default shell. This is optional and does not affect remoting. First, check that PowerShell is listed in the shells file:

Get-Content /etc/shells   # Use cat or less in Bash

The native chsh (change shell) command can be used to change the default shell for the current user, as shown in the following example:

chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh

To configure remoting using WSMan, the OMI and PSRP packages must be installed. The following example uses yum since the operating system in use is CentOS 7:

yum install omi.x86_64 omi-psrp-server.x86_64

By default, CentOS has a firewall configured. The network interface in use, in this case, eth0, must be added to an appropriate...