Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fifth Edition

<p><strong>Master PowerShell to automate real-world administrative tasks streamline workflows and enhance security across Windows environments</strong></p><p><strong>Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook.</strong></p><p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p><p>- Build practical scripts to automate system tasks manage files users and services and optimize daily operations</p><p>- Leverage PowerShell's advanced features for error handling modular scripting and secure automation</p><p>- Apply best practices to create reusable maintainable and production-ready automation workflows</p><p><strong>Book Description:</strong></p><p>Mastering PowerShell Scripting Fifth Edition is your comprehensive guide to harnessing PowerShell's full potential. This edition introduces new chapters on debugging troubleshooting and creating GUIs while covering the latest enhancements in PowerShell 7.3 including parameters objects and .NET classes.</p><p>The book takes you from foundational concepts to advanced techniques covering asynchronous processing desired state configuration and managing large datasets. You'll explore PowerShell's automation features error-handling strategies and integration with external services. Additionally this guide provides practical insights into working with regular expressions Windows Management Instrumentation and complex scripting methods.</p><p>By the end of this book you'll have the skills to efficiently automate tasks troubleshoot scripts and leverage PowerShell's advanced capabilities for real-world scenarios.</p><p><strong>What You Will Learn:</strong></p><p>- Create scripts that run across systems for automation</p><p>- Extend PowerShell by integrating it with other languages</p><p>- Use PowerShell's command-line interface for efficient operations</p><p>- Develop reusable scripts and functions to streamline tasks</p><p>- Apply PowerShell for administration automation and data processing</p><p>- Integrate with .NET COM and WMI for advanced functionality</p><p>- Work with XML JSON and CSV for structured data handling</p><p>- Build custom modules and cmdlets to enhance scripting</p><p><strong>Who this book is for:</strong></p><p>This book is for system administrators who want to automate and speed up their processes using PowerShell and Windows PowerShell. You'll need to know the basics of operating systems but beginners with no prior experience with PowerShell will have no trouble following along.</p><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><p>- Introduction to PowerShell</p><p>- Modules</p><p>- Variables Arrays and Hashtables</p><p>- Working with Objects in PowerShell</p><p>- Operators</p><p>- Conditional Statements and Loops</p><p>- Working with .NET</p><p>- Strings Numbers and Dates</p><p>- Regular Expressions</p><p>- Files Folders and the Registry</p><p>- Windows Management Instrumentation</p><p>- Working with HTML XML and JSON</p><p>- Web Requests and Web Services</p><p>- Remoting and Remote Management</p><p>- Asynchronous Processing</p><p>- Graphical User Interfaces</p><p>- Scripts Functions and Script Blocks</p><p>- Parameters Validation and Dynamic Parameters</p><p>- Classes and Enumerations</p><p>- Building Modules</p><p>- Testing</p><p>- Error Handling</p><p>- Debugging</p>