PowerShell® Notes for Professionals book

What people are saying about this PowerShell® Notes for Professionals book This is outstanding! filling in lots of gaps in my knowledge Whoa, this is a treasure trove! Thanks As a guy who writes all of his code in PowerShell, I love this. Chuck Norris Thumbs Up Grabbed a handful. The powershell one is neat, judging by a quick squizz. 200 Pages, very short but plenty of examples, rules and hints. Love it. This book is almost entire syntax. I really like it! Fantastic for folks that are coming from another language that just need to know how to use existing concepts. This is wonderful! Thanks a ton! The PowerShell® Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA. See credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. 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All trademarks belong to their respective company owners 184 pages, published on May 2019 Content list About Chapter 1: Getting started with PowerShell Section 1.1: Allow scripts stored on your machine to run un-signed Section 1.2: Aliases & Similar Functions Section 1.3: The Pipeline - Using Output from a PowerShell cmdlet Section 1.4: Calling .Net Library Methods Section 1.5: Installation or Setup Section 1.6: Commenting Section 1.7: Creating Objects Chapter 2: Variables in PowerShell Section 2.1: Simple variable Section 2.2: Arrays Section 2.3: List Assignment of Multiple Variables Section 2.4: Scope Section 2.5: Removing a variable Chapter 3: Operators Section 3.1: Comparison Operators Section 3.2: Arithmetic Operators Section 3.3: Assignment Operators Section 3.4: Redirection Operators Section 3.5: Mixing operand types, the type of the left operand dictates the behavior Section 3.6: Logical Operators Section 3.7: String Manipulation Operators Chapter 4: Special Operators Section 4.1: Array Expression Operator Section 4.2: Call Operation Section 4.3: Dot sourcing operator Chapter 5: Basic Set Operations Section 5.1: Filtering: Where-Object / where / ? Section 5.2: Ordering: Sort-Object / sort Section 5.3: Grouping: Group-Object / group Section 5.4: Projecting: Select-Object / select Chapter 6: Conditional logic Section 6.1: if, else and else if Section 6.2: Negation Section 6.3: If conditional shorthand Chapter 7: Loops Section 7.1: Foreach Section 7.2: For Section 7.3: ForEach() Method Section 7.4: ForEach-Object Section 7.5: Continue Section 7.6: Break Section 7.7: While Section 7.8: Do Chapter 8: Switch statement Section 8.1: Simple Switch Section 8.2: Switch Statement with CaseSensitive Parameter Section 8.3: Switch Statement with Wildcard Parameter Section 8.4: Switch Statement with File Parameter Section 8.5: Simple Switch with Default Condition Section 8.6: Switch Statement with Regex Parameter Section 8.7: Simple Switch With Break Section 8.8: Switch Statement with Exact Parameter Section 8.9: Switch Statement with Expressions Chapter 9: Strings Section 9.1: Multiline string Section 9.2: Here-string Section 9.3: Concatenating strings Section 9.4: Special characters Section 9.5: Creating a basic string Section 9.6: Format string Chapter 10: HashTables Section 10.1: Access a hash table value by key Section 10.2: Creating a Hash Table Section 10.3: Add a key value pair to an existing hash table Section 10.4: Remove a key value pair from an existing hash table Section 10.5: Enumerating through keys and Key-Value Pairs Section 10.6: Looping over a hash table Chapter 11: Working with Objects Section 11.1: Examining an object Section 11.2: Updating Objects Section 11.3: Creating a new object Section 11.4: Creating Instances of Generic Classes Chapter 12: PowerShell Functions Section 12.1: Basic Parameters Section 12.2: Advanced Function Section 12.3: Mandatory Parameters Section 12.4: Parameter Validation Section 12.5: Simple Function with No Parameters Chapter 13: PowerShell Classes Section 13.1: Listing available constructors for a class Section 13.2: Methods and properties Section 13.3: Constructor overloading Section 13.4: Get All Members of an Instance Section 13.5: Basic Class Template Section 13.6: Inheritance from Parent Class to Child Class Chapter 14: PowerShell Modules Section 14.1: Create a Module Manifest Section 14.2: Simple Module Example Section 14.3: Exporting a Variable from a Module Section 14.4: Structuring PowerShell Modules Section 14.5: Location of Modules Section 14.6: Module Member Visibility Chapter 15: PowerShell profiles Section 15.1: Create an basic profile Chapter 16: Calculated Properties Section 16.1: Display file size in KB - Calculated Properties Chapter 17: Using existing static classes Section 17.1: Adding types Section 17.2: Using the .Net Math Class Section 17.3: Creating new GUID instantly Chapter 18: Built-in variables Section 18.1: $PSScriptRoot Section 18.2: $Args Section 18.3: $PSItem Section 18.4: $? Section 18.5: $error Chapter 19: Automatic Variables Section 19.1: $OFS Section 19.2: $? Section 19.3: $null Section 19.4: $error Section 19.5: $pid Section 19.6: Boolean values Section 19.7: $_ / $PSItem Section 19.8: $PSVersionTable Chapter 20: Environment Variables Section 20.1: Windows environment variables are visible as a PS drive called Env: Section 20.2: Instant call of Environment Variables with $env: Chapter 21: Splatting Section 21.1: Piping and Splatting Section 21.2: Passing a Switch parameter using Splatting Section 21.3: Splatting From Top Level Function to a Series of Inner Function Section 21.4: Splatting parameters Chapter 22: PowerShell "Streams"; Debug, Verbose, Warning, Error, Output and Information Section 22.1: Write-Output Section 22.2: Write Preferences Chapter 23: Sending Email Section 23.1: Send-MailMessage with predefined parameters Section 23.2: Simple Send-MailMessage Section 23.3: SMTPClient - Mail with .txt file in body message Chapter 24: PowerShell Remoting Section 24.1: Connecting to a Remote Server via PowerShell Section 24.2: Run commands on a Remote Computer Section 24.3: Enabling PowerShell Remoting Section 24.4: A best practise for automatically cleaning-up PSSessions Chapter 25: Working with the PowerShell pipeline Section 25.1: Writing Functions with Advanced Lifecycle Section 25.2: Basic Pipeline Support in Functions Section 25.3: Working concept of pipeline Chapter 26: PowerShell Background Jobs Section 26.1: Basic job creation Section 26.2: Basic job management Chapter 27: Return behavior in PowerShell Section 27.1: Early exit Section 27.2: Gotcha! Return in the pipeline Section 27.3: Return with a value Section 27.4: How to work with functions returns Section 27.5: Gotcha! Ignoring unwanted output Chapter 28: CSV parsing Section 28.1: Basic usage of Import-Csv Section 28.2: Import from CSV and cast properties to correct type Chapter 29: Working with XML Files Section 29.1: Accessing an XML File Section 29.2: Creating an XML Document using XmlWriter() Section 29.3: Adding snippets of XML to current XMLDocument Chapter 30: Communicating with RESTful APIs Section 30.1: Post Message to hipChat Section 30.2: Using REST with PowerShell Objects to GET and POST many items Section 30.3: Use Slack.com Incoming Webhooks Section 30.4: Using REST with PowerShell Objects to Get and Put individual data Section 30.5: Using REST with PowerShell to Delete items Chapter 31: PowerShell SQL queries Section 31.1: SQLExample Section 31.2: SQLQuery Chapter 32: Regular Expressions Section 32.1: Single match Section 32.2: Replace Section 32.3: Replace text with dynamic value using a MatchEvalutor Section 32.4: Escape special characters Section 32.5: Multiple matches Chapter 33: Aliases Section 33.1: Get-Alias Section 33.2: Set-Alias Chapter 34: Using the progress bar Section 34.1: Simple use of progress bar Section 34.2: Usage of inner progress bar Chapter 35: PowerShell.exe Command-Line Section 35.1: Executing a command Section 35.2: Executing a script file Chapter 36: Cmdlet Naming Section 36.1: Verbs Section 36.2: Nouns Chapter 37: Running Executables Section 37.1: GUI Applications Section 37.2: Console Streams Section 37.3: Exit Codes Chapter 38: Enforcing script prerequisites Section 38.1: Enforce minimum version of PowerShell host Section 38.2: Enforce running the script as administrator Chapter 39: Using the Help System Section 39.1: Updating the Help System Section 39.2: Using Get-Help Section 39.3: Viewing online version of a help topic Section 39.4: Viewing Examples Section 39.5: Viewing the Full Help Page Section 39.6: Viewing help for a specific parameter Chapter 40: Modules, Scripts and Functions Section 40.1: Function Section 40.2: Script Section 40.3: Module Section 40.4: Advanced Functions Chapter 41: Naming Conventions Section 41.1: Functions Chapter 42: Common parameters Section 42.1: ErrorAction parameter Chapter 43: Parameter sets Section 43.1: Parameter set to enforce the use of a parameter when a other is selected Section 43.2: Parameter set to limit the combination of parameters Chapter 44: PowerShell Dynamic Parameters Section 44.1: "Simple" dynamic parameter Chapter 45: GUI in PowerShell Section 45.1: WPF GUI for Get-Service cmdlet Chapter 46: URL Encode/Decode Section 46.1: Encode Query String with `[System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode()` Section 46.2: Quick Start: Encoding Section 46.3: Quick Start: Decoding Section 46.4: Encode Query String with `[uri]::EscapeDataString()` Section 46.5: Decode URL with `[uri]::UnescapeDataString()` Section 46.6: Decode URL with `[System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode()` Chapter 47: Error handling Section 47.1: Error Types Chapter 48: Package management Section 48.1: Create the default PowerShell Module Repository Section 48.2: Find a module by name Section 48.3: Install a Module by name Section 48.4: Uninstall a module my name and version Section 48.5: Update a module by name Section 48.6: Find a PowerShell module using a pattern Chapter 49: TCP Communication with PowerShell Section 49.1: TCP listener Section 49.2: TCP Sender Chapter 50: PowerShell Workflows Section 50.1: Workflow with Input Parameters Section 50.2: Simple Workflow Example Section 50.3: Run Workflow as a Background Job Section 50.4: Add a Parallel Block to a Workflow Chapter 51: Embedding Managed Code (C# | VB) Section 51.1: C# Example Section 51.2: VB.NET Example Chapter 52: How to download latest artifact from Artifactory using PowerShell script (v2.0 or below)? Section 52.1: PowerShell Script for downloading the latest artifact Chapter 53: Comment-based help Section 53.1: Function comment-based help Section 53.2: Script comment-based help Chapter 54: Archive Module Section 54.1: Compress-Archive with wildcard Section 54.2: Update existing ZIP with Compress-Archive Section 54.3: Extract a Zip with Expand-Archive Chapter 55: Infrastructure Automation Section 55.1: Simple script for black-box integration test of console applications Chapter 56: PSScriptAnalyzer - PowerShell Script Analyzer Section 56.1: Analyzing scripts with the built-in preset rulesets Section 56.2: Analyzing scripts against every built-in rule Section 56.3: List all built-in rules Chapter 57: Desired State Configuration Section 57.1: Simple example - Enabling WindowsFeature Section 57.2: Starting DSC (mof) on remote machine Section 57.3: Importing psd1 (data file) into local variable Section 57.4: List available DSC Resources Section 57.5: Importing resources for use in DSC Chapter 58: Using ShouldProcess Section 58.1: Full Usage Example Section 58.2: Adding -WhatIf and -Confirm support to your cmdlet Section 58.3: Using ShouldProcess() with one argument Chapter 59: Scheduled tasks module Section 59.1: Run PowerShell Script in Scheduled Task Chapter 60: ISE module Section 60.1: Test Scripts Chapter 61: Creating DSC Class-Based Resources Section 61.1: Create a DSC Resource Skeleton Class Section 61.2: DSC Resource Skeleton with Key Property Section 61.3: DSC Resource with Mandatory Property Section 61.4: DSC Resource with Required Methods Chapter 62: WMI and CIM Section 62.1: Querying objects Section 62.2: Classes and namespaces Chapter 63: ActiveDirectory module Section 63.1: Users Section 63.2: Module Section 63.3: Groups Section 63.4: Computers Section 63.5: Objects Chapter 64: SharePoint Module Section 64.1: Loading SharePoint Snap-In Section 64.2: Iterating over all lists of a site collection Section 64.3: Get all installed features on a site collection Chapter 65: Introduction to Psake Section 65.1: Basic outline Section 65.2: FormatTaskName example Section 65.3: Run Task conditionally Section 65.4: ContinueOnError Chapter 66: Introduction to Pester Section 66.1: Getting Started with Pester Chapter 67: Handling Secrets and Credentials Section 67.1: Accessing the Plaintext Password Section 67.2: Prompting for Credentials Section 67.3: Working with Stored Credentials Section 67.4: Storing the credentials in Encrypted form and Passing it as parameter when Required Chapter 68: Security and Cryptography Section 68.1: Calculating a string's hash codes via .Net Cryptography Chapter 69: Signing Scripts Section 69.1: Signing a script Section 69.2: Bypassing execution policy for a single script Section 69.3: Changing the execution policy using Set-ExecutionPolicy Section 69.4: Get the current execution policy Section 69.5: Getting the signature from a signed script Section 69.6: Creating a self-signed code signing certificate for testing Chapter 70: Anonymize IP (v4 and v6) in text file with PowerShell Section 70.1: Anonymize IP address in text file Chapter 71: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Rekognition Section 71.1: Detect Image Labels with AWS Rekognition Section 71.2: Compare Facial Similarity with AWS Rekognition Chapter 72: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) Section 72.1: Create a new S3 Bucket Section 72.2: Upload a Local File Into an S3 Bucket Section 72.3: Delete a S3 Bucket Credits You may also like