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Learning PowerShell 6 [Video]

By : Joshua Jones
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Learning PowerShell 6 [Video]

By: Joshua Jones

Overview of this book

Windows PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language designed specifically for system administration. Built on the .NET Framework, Windows PowerShell helps IT professionals and power users control and automate the administration of the Windows operating system and applications that run on Windows. This video is designed to help you get up and running with PowerShell, taking you from the basics of installation to writing scripts and web server automation. This will act as an introduction to the central topics of PowerShell, from finding and understanding PowerShell commands and packaging code for reusability right through to a practical example of automating IIS. It also includes topics such as installation and setup, creating scripts, automating tasks, and using PowerShell to access data stores, registry, and file systems. You will explore the PowerShell environment and discover how to use cmdlets, functions, and scripts to automate Windows systems. Along the way, you’ll perform data manipulation and solve common problems using basic file input/output functions. The potential topics could bewill be Commands, Scripts, Providers, Files and folders, Objects, Variables, Classes and Enumerations, Expressions, DSC and so on. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to leverage your skills to effectively manage and administrate the system using PowerShell 6.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 3
Using Cmdlets and Objects Effectively
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Section 6
Formatting for Efficiency
In this video, we will learn how to be efficient by filtering first and then formatting. - Discuss filtering first, then formatting the output - User Where-Object to filter the results - Format the output into different layouts