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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

Help files


In addition to comment-based help, you can also author entire help files. These files are intended to be delivered with your modules, and can be hosted online, as well, so that Update-Help can be used to download current help data. Updating the help file usually requires internet access. However, you can download help content with Save-Help and provide these files on a network share, so that your non-connected machines can update their help content, as well. On Windows systems, this can be configured via Group Policy:

# No help content since PSv3
Update-Help # Only the first execution each day is processed

# Prestage help content for internal distribution
Save-Help -DestinationPath .\HelpContent
Update-Help -SourcePath .\HelpContent

# If really necessary, Update- and Save-Help support a UICulture
Save-Help -DestinationPath .\HelpContent -UICulture de-de

The help content you have prepared in the previous code sample can be used in Group Policy, as the following screenshot illustrates...