Windows PowerShell Step by Step

[Pages:115]// Step by step Windows PowerShell

Third Edition

Ed Wilson

Intermediate

Windows PowerShell Step by Step, Third Edition

Ed Wilson

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Contents at a glance

CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 14 CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17 CHAPTER 18 CHAPTER 19 CHAPTER 20 CHAPTER 21 CHAPTER 22

Introduction

xix

Overview of Windows PowerShell 5.0

1

Using Windows PowerShell cmdlets

23

Understanding and using Windows PowerShell providers 65

Using Windows PowerShell remoting and jobs

109

Using Windows PowerShell scripts

137

Working with functions

179

Creating advanced functions and modules

217

Using the Windows PowerShell ISE

259

Working with Windows PowerShell profiles

275

Using WMI

291

Querying WMI

313

Remoting WMI

341

Calling WMI methods on WMI classes

361

Using the CIM cmdlets

375

Working with Active Directory

395

Working with the AD DS module

431

Deploying Active Directory by using Windows PowerShell 459

Debugging scripts

473

Handling errors

511

Using the Windows PowerShell workflow

547

Managing Windows PowerShell DSC

565

Using the PowerShell Gallery

581

Appendix A: Windows PowerShell scripting

best practices

591

Appendix B: Regular expressions quick reference

599

Index

603

Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Chapter 1 Overview of Windows PowerShell 5.0

1

Understanding Windows PowerShell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Using cmdlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Installing Windows PowerShell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Deploying Windows PowerShell to down-level operating systems . . 3

Using command-line utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Security issues with Windows PowerShell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Controlling execution of Windows PowerShell cmdlets . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Confirming actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Suspending confirmation of cmdlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Working with Windows PowerShell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Accessing Windows PowerShell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Configuring the Windows PowerShell console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Supplying options for cmdlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Working with the help options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Exploring commands: Step-by-step exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 1 quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 2 Using Windows PowerShell cmdlets

23

Understanding the basics of cmdlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Using the Get-ChildItem cmdlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Obtaining a directory listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Formatting a directory listing by using the Format-List cmdlet . . . 26

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