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In PowerShell, administrative tasks are generally performed by cmdlets, which are specialized .NET classes implementing a particular operation. These work by accessing data in different data stores, like the file system or registry, which are made available to PowerShell via providers.
The Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is a host application for Windows PowerShell. In Windows PowerShell ISE, you can run commands and write, test, and debug scripts in a single Windows-based graphic user interface with multiline editing, tab completion, syntax coloring, selective execution, context-sensitive help, and support for right-to-left languages. In addition to the PowerShell ISE, PowerShell is also well-supported in Visual Studio Code. Furthermore, the ISE is not supported with PowerShell Core, while Visual Studio Code is supported for PowerShell Core on all platforms (Windows, macOS, and Linux).
The PowerShell design integrates concepts from many different environments. Several of them are familiar to people with experience in specific shells or programming environments, but very few people will know about all of them. Looking at some of these concepts provides a useful overview of the shell.
PowerShell contains a bunch of commands that allow you to manipulate your objects using the pipeline. These cmdlets will help you to filter, sort, group, ... any object.
PowerShell provides full access to COM, WMI and .NET, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems.
A module is a set of related PowerShell functionalities, grouped together as a convenient unit (usually saved in a single directory).
By defining a set of related script files, assemblies, and related resources as a module, you can reference, load, persist, and share your code much easier than you would otherwise.
PowerShell Package Manager allows you to find, install and remove software all from within PowerShell from various repositories on the Internet and without having to search around the Internet or your network to find software installers.
PowerShell Remoting lets you run PowerShell commands or access full PowerShell sessions on remote systems.
The execution policy is part of the security strategy of PowerShell. It determines whether you can load configuration files and run scripts, and it determines which scripts, if any, must be digitally signed before they will run.
PowerShell includes a dynamically typed scripting language which can implement complex operations using cmdlets imperatively. The scripting language supports variables, functions, branching, loops, structured error/exception handling and closures/lambda expressions, as well as integration with .NET.
The goal of PowerShell is to ease your work as an administrator. In this module we will talk about basic management tasks that you need to perform and how you can accomplish this through PowerShell. Configuring network settings, implementing security on files and folders, managing Active Directory.
Jobs are long-running tasks that are executed in the background. You don't have to wait for the job to finish and can perform other tasks while the job is running. Once completed, the job output can be retrieved. Jobs can be executed on a remote system or they can be scheduled.
With the out of the box possibilities, you can easily debug your scripts before running them in production. You can set breakpoints and use standard debugging options like step over, step into, step out. To modify the default PowerShell error handling behavior, you can write a try-catch statement and run special code when errors are encountered.
DSC allows for declaratively specifying how a software environment should be configured. Upon running a configuration, DSC will ensure that the system gets the state described in the configuration. DSC configurations are idempotent. The Local Configuration Manager (LCM) periodically polls the system using the control flow described by resources to make sure that the state of a configuration is maintained.
Turn your real time management and automation scripts into useful reusable tools and cmdlets. Use PowerShell to create your own modules.
Just Enough Administration (JEA) is a security technology that enables delegated administration for anything that can be managed with PowerShell. JEA allows you to reduce the number of administrators on your machines by leveraging virtual accounts or group managed service accounts that perform privileged actions on behalf of regular users. It limits what users can do by specifying which cmdlets, functions, and external commands they can run.
PowerShell Core is an open-source cross-platform version of PowerShell, that not only runs on Windows, but runs on macOS and Linux as well. PowerShell Core packages are available for Windows 7+, Ubuntu, Redhat, Centos, macOS, Fedora, OpenSuse, and Debian. This allows system administrators to use a common administrative scripting language on all the servers they manage.
PowerShell is a powerful tool for automating tasks and managing systems across different platforms. In this course you will learn to work with objects, connect to remote systems and write scripts and cmdlets. PowerShell can be used to manage your on-prem Windows and Linux systems as well as many cloud services like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Teams.
This course will get you acquainted with all the different features of PowerShell. You will learn how to automate and script administration, configuration and deployment of on-prem servers and cloud environments with out-of-the-box cmdlets and custom scripts.
This course is intended for: