Notes From the Field: A PowerShell Primer
Notes From the Field: A PowerShell Primer
About the Book
Learning PowerShell has become an important skillset for those that manage Microsoft products on-premises or in Office 365. This book was written to provide those new to PowerShell some help in learning PowerShell, not from a theory side of things, but focused on practical, real world advice. As such, the book, while not intended to be an advanced book, does cover some advanced topics and concepts. All code was either written for a real work scenario or used to solve a real world problem. A quick sample of topics in the book should give you, the reader, an idea of what is contained in the book:
- Add and Replace
- Arrays - A Deeper Dive
- Connectivity Testing
- Data Types
- Empty Spaces
- Error Action
- Formatting the Shell?
- Get-Date
- Get-History
- Hash Tables - A Deeper Dive
- Managing Output Files
- Out-GridView
- PowerShell StopWatch
- Read-Host
- Role Based Access Controls (RBAC)
- Sort-Object and Unique Values
- Trim()
That is a small sampling of what is covered.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Publishing Information
- Author
- Books by the Author
- Foreword
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Preface
- Introduction
- How This Book Works
- Some PowerShell Background
- Why PowerShell?
- Management Shells
- Command Structure
- Piping
- Caveats
- Protecting Yourself and What If
- Command Discovery Techniques
- PowerShell Modules and More
- PowerShell Errors
- PowerShell Errors and Limitations
- Getting Help!?!1
- Idiosyncrasies
- What’s Next?
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Chapter 1: PowerShell Basics
- Introduction
- Variables
- Arrays
- Hash Tables
- CSV Files
- Operators
- Loops
- Export-CSV
- Functions
- PowerShell Tools
- ISE Plugins and Additional Tools
- Summary
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Chapter 2: Beyond the Basics
- Formatting
- Command Output
- Miscellaneous Topics
- Summary
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Chapter 3: Building PowerShell Scripts
- How to Begin
- Scenario One - PowerShell and Change
- Scenario Two: Exchange Online Distribution Group Cleanup
- Scenario Three: Security and Compliance Center One Drive cleanup
- Interesting Add On - Write Progress
- Script Building Summary
- Challenge Yourself!
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Chapter 4: Further Enhancements
- Introduction
- Add and Replace
- Arrays - A Deeper Dive
- Connectivity Testing
- Data Types
- Empty Spaces
- Error Action
- Formatting the Shell?
- Get-Date
- Get-History
- Hash Tables - A Deeper Dive
- Managing Output Files
- Out-GridView
- PowerShell StopWatch
- Read-Host
- Role Based Access Controls (RBAC)
- Sort-Object and Unique Values
- Trim()
- Summary
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Chapter 5 - Reporting
- Introduction
- Screenshots
- TXT Files
- CSV Files
- HTML Files
- Delivery Methodologies
- File Copy
- Summary
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Chapter 6 - Troubleshooting
- Introduction
- Breaking up the Script
- Write-Host
- Comments
- PowerShell ISE
- Debugging
- ErrorAction
- Try and Catch
- Transcript
- Deciphering Error Messages
- Access Denied
- Variables
- Arrays
- Measure-Command
- Conclusion
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Chapter 7 - Best Practices
- What is a Best Practice?
- Naming Conventions, this time for Functions and Scripts
- Single Task Function
- Signing Your Code
- Filter vs. Where
- Error Handling
- Conclusion and Further Help
- Visual Studio Code
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Chapter 8 - Miscellaneous
- Introduction
- Menus
- Aliases
- Foreach-Object (%)
- PowerShell Interface Customization
- Command Logging
- Summary
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