Building a PowerShell Tool
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Last updated on 2019-08-12
About the Book
PowerShell's real power comes through in its tool-making abilities. What do I mean by a tool? A tool is a PowerShell script, a module, a function, whatever that helps you perform some management task. That task could be creating a report, gathering information about a computer, creating a company user account, and so on.
PowerShell shines as an automation language. In this eBook built as a PowerShell mini-course, you'll learn how to build an automation tool using PowerShell.
This eBook mini-course will guide you from having nothing to show all the way up to a PowerShell script that can query and return information across all of your servers.
Not only will you learn how to write a PowerShell script but you'll also learn the mindset behind writing a script that will take your PowerShell skills to the next level. You'll see how a PowerShell expert thinks and how he approaches writing a PowerShell tool.
About the Author
About the Contributors
https://www.reddit.com/user/Lee_Dailey
https://mattbobke.com/
Table of Contents
- About This Book
- About the Author
- Feedback
- Instructions and Mini-Course Structure
- Table of Contents
- Prerequisites
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Script Scaffolding
- Defining the Final Output
- Discovery and Script Input
- Building a Common Object Type
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Enumerating User Profiles
- The Tool (Thus Far)
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Finding Free Disk Space
- Managing Arrays of Objects
- The Tool (Thus Far)
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Finding Operating System Information
- The Tool (Thus Far)
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Finding Memory
- The Tool (Thus Far)
- Finding Server IP Addresses
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Querying Windows Services
- The Tool (Thus Far)
- Refactoring
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Building an HTML Report
- The Tool (Thus Far)
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Refactoring…Again?
- Adding Script Parameters
- Using a Shared CIM Session and Splatting
- Using PowerShell Remoting and Supporting Parallel Runs
- Remove the CIM session and All ComputerName Parameters
- Summary
- Release Notes
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