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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

Deploying session configurations


After you have developed the proper role definitions and a possible session configuration, it is time to deploy those. In order to enable your new session configuration, there are several options.

Individual activation

Semi-automatic deployment is suited for a very small amount of servers, for example, a central management server that provides an endpoint with multiple role definitions. This requires you to copy the role capabilities files as a module to your remote system with secure permissions set on those files. Additionally, the session configuration file should be available:

# Register an individual session configuration

# Prepare proper folder
$roleCapabilitiesFolder = New-Item -Path (Join-Path ($env:PSModulePath -split ';')[1] 'JeaCapabilities\RoleCapabilities') -ItemType Directory -Force
$roleCapabilityOptions = @{
    # shortened, see example code in Role Capabilities section
}

New-PSRoleCapabilityFile @roleCapabilityOptions

$sessionConfigurationOptions...