Mastering PowerShell Scripting: Automate repetitive tasks and simplify complex administrative tasks using PowerShell

Master PowerShell to automate real-world administrative tasks, streamline workflows, and enhance security across Windows environments

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Key Features
Build practical scripts to automate system tasks, manage files, users, and services, and optimize daily operations
Leverage PowerShell’s advanced features for error handling, modular scripting, and secure automation
Apply best practices to create reusable, maintainable, and production-ready automation workflows
Book Description
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.

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.

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.

What you will learn
Create scripts that run across systems for automation
Extend PowerShell by integrating it with other languages
Use PowerShell's command-line interface for efficient operations
Develop reusable scripts and functions to streamline tasks
Apply PowerShell for administration, automation, and data processing
Integrate with .NET, COM, and WMI for advanced functionality
Work with XML, JSON, and CSV for structured data handling
Build custom modules and cmdlets to enhance scripting
Who this book is for
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.

Table of Contents
Introduction to PowerShell
Modules
Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables
Working with Objects in PowerShell
Operators
Conditional Statements and Loops
Working with .NET
Strings, Numbers, and Dates
Regular Expressions
Files, Folders, and the Registry
Windows Management Instrumentation
Working with HTML, XML, and JSON
Web Requests and Web Services
Remoting and Remote Management
Asynchronous Processing
Graphical User Interfaces
Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks
Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters
Classes and Enumerations
Building Modules
Testing
Error Handling
Debugging