Book Image

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

CLIXML


The Export-Clixml cmdlet can be used to serialize objects to file, which can then be easily deserialized with Import-Clixml. Serialization is the process of exporting objects to a file or data format with its specific type information. It is similar to the techniques we learned earlier, except that it keeps the type information with it:

#Defining file for export
$exportedFile ='C:\temp\exportedProcesses.xml'

#Exporting services and strong into variable
Get-Process| Tee-Object -Variable exportedProcesses | Export-Clixml $exportedFile 

#Showing variable
$exportedProcesses

#Importing services
$importedProcesses = Import-Clixml $exportedFile

#Comparing objects - no difference should be visible
Compare-Object -ReferenceObject $exportedProcesses -DifferenceObject $importedProcesses -Property ProcessName, Id

#Starting another process - Notepad.exe
Notepad.exe

#Comparing objects with current process list
Compare-Object -ReferenceObject $exportedProcesses -DifferenceObject $(Get-Process...