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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By : David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
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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

Execution


Now that we have access to a gallery and a general understanding of how PowerShellGet and PackageManagement work, we can begin adding new scripts and modules to the gallery and use them in different contexts such as JEA sessions. As a normal user, publishing to the gallery requires the target repository as well as an API key.

In addition to that, the system you are coming from needs the NuGet libraries as well as the NuGet executable to make full use of both PackageManagement and PowerShellGet. The following code can be used to bootstrap the files from a machine connected to the internet. However, it might be easier to just use Install-PackageProvider and use the paths from the code block to locate all of the necessary binaries:

# Bootstrapping the PowerShellGet NuGet provider for offline systems
# nuget.exe is necessary to use Publish-Module and nuget pack

# Systemwide
$PSGetProgramDataPath = Join-Path -Path $env:ProgramData -ChildPath 'Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PowerShellGet...