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Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

By : Jan-Hendrik Peters
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Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

By: Jan-Hendrik Peters

Overview of this book

This book will follow a recipe-based approach and start off with an introduction to the fundamentals of PowerShell, and explaining how to install and run it through simple examples. Next, you will learn how to use PowerShell to access and manipulate data and how to work with different streams as well. You will also explore the object model which will help with regard to PowerShell function deployment. Going forward, you will get familiar with the pipeline in its different use cases. The next set of chapters will deal with the different ways of accessing data in PowerShell. You will also learn to automate various tasks in Windows and Linux using PowerShell Core, as well as explore Windows Server. Later, you will be introduced to Remoting in PowerShell Core and Just Enough Administration concept. The last set of chapters will help you understand the management of a private and public cloud with PowerShell Core. You will also learn how to access web services and explore the high-performance scripting methods. By the end of this book, you will gain the skills to manage complex tasks effectively along with increasing the performance of your environment.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Using PowerShell Direct in PowerShell Core

PowerShell Direct is a Windows-only technology that allows you to connect to VMs, even when the VMs themselves are offline or have disabled remoting.

This recipe shows you when and how to use PowerShell Direct.

Getting ready

Install and start PowerShell Core on a Hyper-V host.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

  1. Disconnect all network adapters from one of the lab machines, for example, PACKT-FS-A:
Get-Vm -Name PACKT-FS-A | Get-VMNetworkAdapter | Disconnect-VMNetworkAdapter
  1. Try to connect to the machine using...