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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

Questions


  1. What are the most important cmdlets to work with the registry?
  2. What are the most important cmdlets to work with the filesystem?
  3. Why is it possible to use the same cmdlets for the registry and for the filesystem?
  4. What is a CSV file?
  5. What do you need to do when exporting a CSV file to get your tables correctly formatted in Excel?
  6. What is a XML file and for what purposes can it be used?
  7. How can you export existing objects to file and persist the type easily?
  8. What are the cmdlets you need to know when working with JSON objects?
  9. How can you open up the configuration in Visual Studio Code?
  10. What are classes?
  11. What is the difference between a class and an instance?
  12. What does overloaded mean?