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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

Convert-PPTX to PDF


As frequent speakers at conferences, it is always necessary for us to convert our presentations to PDF files to share them afterwards with the community. Unfortunately, this can easily become a very time-consuming job if you need to open many different and large PowerPoint files. The following function does this job for you automatically:

<#
 .Synopsis
 Convert PowerPoint files to pdf.
 .DESCRIPTION
 Convert PowerPoint files to pdf. Searches recursively in complete folders.
 .EXAMPLE
 Convert-PPTXtoPDF -Path c:\Workshops\
#>
function Convert-PPTXtoPDF
{ 
 [CmdletBinding()]
 Param
 (
 # Folder or File
 [Parameter(Mandatory = $true,
 ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $false,
 Position = 0)]
 $Path 
 )
 #Load assembly.
 $null = Add-Type -AssemblyName Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint

 #Store SaveOption
$SaveOption =[Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.PpSaveAsFileType]::ppSaveAsPDF

 #Open PowerPoint ComObject
$PowerPoint = New-Object -ComObject 'PowerPoint.Application...