Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 : automate and control administrative tasks using DevOps principles

Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 automate and control administrative tasks using DevOps principles

Enhance your skills in expert module development, deployment, security, DevOps, and cloud Key Features A step-by-step guide to get you started with PowerShell Core 6.0 Harness the capabilities of PowerShell Core 6.0 to perform simple to complex administration tasks Learn core administrative concepts...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: das Neves, David, author (author), Peters, Jan Hendrik, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt Publishing 2018.
Edición:1st edition
Materias:
Windows PowerShell (Computer program language)
Information technology > Management.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630464006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Credits
  • Dedication
  • Packt Upsell
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Current PowerShell Versions
  • Technical requirements
  • Historical background
  • Overview of different versions of Powershell
  • PowerShell Editions
  • Windows PowerShell 5.1
  • PowerShell Core 6
  • PowerShell Open Source
  • Downloading the source code
  • Developing and contributing
  • The goals of PowerShell Core 6
  • Dependencies and support
  • Compatibility
  • Cross-platform remoting
  • Azure Cloud Shell
  • Features of PowerShell in Cloud Shell
  • Future of PowerShell
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 2: PowerShell ISE Versus VSCode
  • Introduction to currently available tools
  • Recap
  • PowerShell ISE
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Introduction
  • Download
  • Installation
  • First start
  • Basics
  • ISE versus VSCode
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 3: Basic Coding Techniques
  • Comments
  • Regions
  • Types
  • Variables
  • Commands and parameters
  • Approved verb list
  • PSDrives and PSProviders
  • PowerShell's scripting language
  • Script blocks
  • Operators
  • Pipeline operator
  • Type operators
  • Arithmetic operators
  • Assignment operators
  • Comparison operators
  • Logical operators
  • Split and join operators
  • Bitwise logical operators
  • Replace operator
  • Unary operators
  • Language constructs
  • Indentation
  • If...ElseIf, and Else
  • Switch
  • Loops
  • for loop
  • do loop
  • while loop
  • foreach loop
  • break and continue loops
  • Error handling
  • Non-terminating
  • Terminating errors
  • Remoting
  • Types of remoting
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 4: Advanced Coding Techniques
  • Technical requirements
  • Working with credentials
  • Working with external utilities
  • Pipeline and performance
  • Performance
  • Parallel execution.
  • Working with APIs
  • Creating a REST endpoint
  • Create
  • Read
  • Update
  • Delete
  • Interacting with a RESTful API
  • Working with events
  • Object events
  • WMI events
  • Engine events
  • Remote events
  • Custom formatting
  • Custom type extensions
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 5: Writing Reusable Code
  • Best practice guidelines
  • Code layout
  • Brace placement
  • Naming conventions
  • Aliases and parameter names
  • Readability
  • Function design
  • Output
  • Cmdlet output
  • Conveying messages
  • Compatibility
  • Comments
  • Header or disclaimer
  • Functions
  • Script blocks
  • Function declaration
  • The parameter attribute
  • Parameter sets
  • Pipeline input
  • Cmdlet binding attribute
  • Scopes
  • Dot-sourcing code
  • Help files
  • Help-driven development
  • Code signing
  • Possible solutions
  • Digital certificates
  • Public key Infrastructure
  • Self-signed certificates for testing
  • Preventing changes and execution
  • Proving that changes were made
  • Modules
  • Module architecture
  • Combining multiple functions
  • The module manifest
  • Managing complexity
  • Deployment and upgrade
  • Version control
  • Changelog
  • Recovery
  • Revert
  • Checkout
  • Reset
  • Branching
  • Merging
  • Possible solutions
  • TFS
  • Git
  • SVN
  • PSScriptAnalyzer
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 6: Working with Data
  • Registry
  • Files
  • CSV
  • XML
  • CLIXML
  • JSON
  • Classes
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 7: Understanding PowerShell Security
  • Current situation around PowerShell
  • Is PowerShell a vulnerability?
  • Principle of Least Privilege
  • The community
  • Version 5
  • Evergreen
  • Secure coding
  • Remoting
  • Double hop
  • ExecutionPolicy
  • Bypassing the ExecutionPolicy
  • Executing PowerShell without PowerShell.exe
  • Constrained language mode
  • AppLocker.
  • How the Constrained Language Mode is enforced
  • Windows Defender Application Control
  • Obfuscation
  • Logging
  • AMSI
  • Prioritizing technical security controls
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 8: Just Enough Administration
  • Technical overview
  • Session authoring
  • Role capabilities
  • Merging role capabilities
  • Cmdlet visible in one role
  • Cmdlet visible in multiple roles
  • Validation is used in one role
  • Validation is used in multiple roles
  • ValidateSet and ValidatePattern are mixed
  • Session configurations
  • Language mode and session type
  • Transcripts
  • Accounts
  • Connecting users
  • Virtual account
  • Group-managed service account
  • User drive
  • Deploying session configurations
  • Individual activation
  • Distributed activation
  • Desired State Configuration
  • Use cases
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 9: DevOps with PowerShell
  • What is DevOps?
  • WinOps
  • DevSecOps
  • Why DevOps
  • Traceability
  • Reliability
  • Speed
  • Test-driven development
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous deployment
  • Challenges of DevOps
  • The value of PowerShell
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 10: Creating Your Own PowerShell Repository
  • Package management
  • Centralization
  • Interacting with repositories
  • Knowledge management
  • Documentation with PlatyPS
  • PowerShell repository
  • Setup
  • Modules
  • Signing
  • Version control
  • PowerShellGet
  • Execution
  • Dedicated user
  • JEA
  • Deploying and upgrading
  • PowerShellGet
  • End user updates
  • Automatic updates
  • JEA servers
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 11: VSCode and PowerShell Release Pipelines
  • Configuration
  • Interface
  • Extensibility
  • Preparing for a release pipeline
  • Working with different hosts
  • Plaster
  • Creating templates
  • Packaging templates
  • PSScriptAnalyzer.
  • Pester
  • Mock
  • Mock .NET calls
  • Describe
  • Context
  • It
  • Running tests
  • Git
  • Centralized workflow
  • Forking workflow
  • CI tools
  • Bringing it all together
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 12: PowerShell Desired State Configuration
  • Introducing DSC
  • Why Desired State Configuration?
  • Configurations
  • Local Configuration Manager - LCM
  • Push
  • When to use
  • Pull
  • When to use
  • Security
  • Resources
  • Built-in resources
  • Community
  • Custom
  • Composite
  • DSC Core
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 13: Working with Windows
  • Retrieving the latest PowerShell version
  • WMI CIM
  • Delivery Optimization
  • Retrieving all log events and files for update issues
  • Turning off energy-saving mechanisms
  • Verifying installed updates
  • Working with apps
  • EventLog
  • ETL parsing
  • Convert-PPTX to PDF
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 14: Working with Azure
  • Azure 101
  • Resource groups
  • Tags
  • Resources
  • PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
  • The Azure drive
  • Resource group deployment
  • Finding templates
  • Resources
  • Parameters and variables
  • Functions in templates
  • Individual deployments
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 15: Connecting to Microsoft Online Services
  • Office 365
  • Exchange Online
  • Using some cmdlets
  • SharePoint Online
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 16: Working with SCCM and SQL Server
  • System Center Configuration Manager
  • Logging
  • PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit
  • SQL Server
  • Working with the SqlServer module
  • The SQL Provider
  • Connecting to SQL instances
  • Running manual queries
  • Working with availability groups
  • Masterkeys, encryption, and credentials
  • Working with the dbatools module
  • Discovering SQL instances.
  • Connecting to SQL instances - the SqlInstance parameter
  • Running manual queries
  • PowerShell to SQL
  • Navigating the module
  • Backup, restore, and test
  • Deploying maintenance insight tools
  • Migrations made easy
  • Working with the Reporting Services module
  • Connecting to the Reporting Services server
  • Administrating the service
  • Managing the data in the service
  • Working with content
  • Navigating the structure
  • Exporting content
  • Importing content
  • Configuring SSRS servers
  • Working with the dbachecks module
  • Configuration
  • Feel the power
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Chapter 17: PowerShell Deep Dives
  • Creating XAML GUIs with PSGUI
  • Scalable DSC configuration
  • The problem
  • The setup
  • Configuration data
  • Configurations
  • Build
  • ConvertFrom-String
  • LINQ
  • OpenFileDialog
  • Username to Security Identifier (SID)
  • SHiPS
  • PSDefaultParameterValues and PSBoundParameters
  • PSDefaultParameterValues
  • PSBoundParameters
  • ConvertTo-Breakpoint
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
  • Appendix A: PowerShell ISE Hotkeys
  • Keyboard shortcuts for editing text
  • Keyboard shortcuts for running scripts
  • Keyboard shortcuts for customizing the view
  • Keyboard shortcuts for debugging scripts
  • Keyboard shortcuts for Windows PowerShell tabs
  • Keyboard shortcuts for starting and exiting
  • References
  • VSCode Hotkeys
  • Default keyboard shortcuts
  • Basic editing
  • Rich languages editing
  • Navigation
  • Editor/Window management
  • File management
  • Display
  • Search
  • Preferences
  • Debug
  • Tasks
  • Extensions
  • References
  • Assessments
  • Other Books You May Enjoy
  • Index.

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