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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By : David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
Book Image

Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By: David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters

Overview of this book

Beginning with an overview of the different versions of PowerShell, Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 introduces you to VSCode and then dives into helping you understand the basic techniques in PowerShell scripting. You will cover advanced coding techniques, learn how to write reusable code as well as store and load data with PowerShell. This book will help you understand PowerShell security and Just Enough Administration, enabling you to create your own PowerShell repository. The last set of chapters will guide you in setting up, configuring, and working with Release Pipelines in VSCode and VSTS, and help you understand PowerShell DSC. In addition to this, you will learn how to use PowerShell with Windows, Azure, Microsoft Online Services, SCCM, and SQL Server. The final chapter will provide you with some use cases and pro tips. By the end of this book, you will be able to create professional reusable code using security insight and knowledge of working with PowerShell Core 6.0 and its most important capabilities.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Code signing


Code signing is a prerequisite, to ensure that the scripts you have developed are not altered during their life cycles. It is also a very common task in a deployment pipeline. When moving code from development to production, it is signed, and is thereby marked as ready to ship.

Signing scripts and Desired State Configuration (DSC) documents is trivial. There is one cmdlet to sign files, and one to validate signatures, as you can see in the next code sample:

# A certificate is necessary
# Certificates can be self-signed, externally sourced, etc.
$codeSigningCert = Get-ChildItem Cert:\CurrentUser\my -CodeSigningCert

# You can sign ps1, psd1, psm1 and mof files - any files that
# support Subject Interface Package (SIP)
New-Item -ItemType File -Path .\SignedScript.ps1 -Value 'Get-Process -Id $Pid'
Set-AuthenticodeSignature -FilePath .\SignedScript.ps1 -Certificate $codeSigningCert -IncludeChain all

# You can always validate a signature

# Valid
Get-AuthenticodeSignature -FilePath...