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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

Future of PowerShell


The future of PowerShell lies in PowerShell Core 6 and newer, with the focus to work platform-independently and together with the community on the new versions. We will see a transitioning phase in the upcoming years, where most of the existing modules are ported from Windows PowerShell to PowerShell Core.

In addition, we will see a lot of work being done within Azure Cloud Shell, providing more automation to work with Azure resources from anywhere. Windows PowerShell, though, will not gain additional features, but will keep being a built-in, supported component of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.