Mastering PowerShell

Master the art of automating and managing your Windows environment using PowerShell

About This Book

• Construct scripts by following proven best practices to automate redundant tasks
• Delve into real-world examples to understand how to simplify the management of your Windows environment
• Get to grips with PowerShell’s advanced functions and effectively administer your system

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system administrator who wants to become an expert in controlling and automating your Windows environment, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of PowerShell’s core elements and applications is required for this book.

In Detail

PowerShell is quickly becoming the de facto standard for scripting in Microsoft Windows environments. It enables the automation of otherwise complex tasks, providing interactivity between different products.

Beginning with PowerShell fundamentals, this book progresses by imparting the advanced skills required to master automation. You will learn how to deal with data and operations on various data types and structures, and see the techniques of data manipulation and parsing. Moving on, you will learn about the usage of regular expressions and comparison operators. Error handling techniques will enable you to identify and eliminate errors. This book also provides best practices for scripting and techniques to reduce the amount of code required to complete tasks.

By the end of this book, you will be able to create a variety of PowerShell scripts and successfully automate your environment and become the go-to person.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Variables, Arrays, and Hashes
Chapter 2. Data Parsing and Manipulation
Chapter 3. Comparison Operators
Chapter 4. Functions, Switches, and Loops Structures
Chapter 5. Regular Expressions
Chapter 6. Error and Exception Handling and Testing Code
Chapter 7. Session-based Remote Management
Chapter 8. Managing Files, Folders, and Registry Items
Chapter 9. File, Folder, and Registry Attributes, ACLs, and Properties
Chapter 10. Windows Management Instrumentation
Chapter 11. XML Manipulation
Chapter 12. Managing Microsoft Systems with PowerShell
Chapter 13. Automation of the Environment
Chapter 14. Script Creation Best Practices and Conclusion