Notes From the Field: A PowerShell Primer

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Foreword

Preface

1. Introduction
2. How This Book Works
3. Some PowerShell Background
4. Why PowerShell?
5. Management Shells
6. Command Structure
7. Piping
8. Caveats
9. Protecting Yourself and What If
10. Command Discovery Techniques
11. PowerShell Modules and More
12. PowerShell Errors
13. PowerShell Errors and Limitations
14. Getting Help!?!1
15. Idiosyncrasies
16. What’s Next?

Chapter 1: PowerShell Basics

1. Introduction
2. Variables
3. Arrays
4. Hash Tables
5. CSV Files
6. Operators
7. Loops
8. Export-CSV
9. Functions
10. PowerShell Tools
11. ISE Plugins and Additional Tools
12. Summary

Chapter 2: Beyond the Basics

1. Formatting
2. Command Output
3. Miscellaneous Topics
4. Summary

Chapter 3: Building PowerShell Scripts

1. How to Begin
2. Scenario One - PowerShell and Change
3. Scenario Two: Exchange Online Distribution Group Cleanup
4. Scenario Three: Security and Compliance Center One Drive cleanup
5. Interesting Add On - Write Progress
6. Script Building Summary
7. Challenge Yourself!

Chapter 4: Further Enhancements

1. Introduction
2. Add and Replace
3. Arrays - A Deeper Dive
4. Connectivity Testing
5. Data Types
6. Empty Spaces
7. Error Action
8. Formatting the Shell?
9. Get-Date
10. Get-History
11. Hash Tables - A Deeper Dive
12. Managing Output Files
13. Out-GridView
14. PowerShell StopWatch
15. Read-Host
16. Role Based Access Controls (RBAC)
17. Sort-Object and Unique Values
18. Trim()
19. Summary

Chapter 5 - Reporting

1. Introduction
2. Screenshots
3. TXT Files
4. CSV Files
5. HTML Files
6. Delivery Methodologies
7. File Copy
8. Summary

Chapter 6 - Troubleshooting

1. Introduction
2. Breaking up the Script
3. Write-Host
4. Comments
5. PowerShell ISE
6. Debugging
7. ErrorAction
8. Try and Catch
9. Transcript
10. Deciphering Error Messages
11. Access Denied
12. Variables
13. Arrays
14. Measure-Command
15. Conclusion

Chapter 7 - Best Practices

1. What is a Best Practice?
2. Naming Conventions, this time for Functions and Scripts
3. Single Task Function
4. Signing Your Code
5. Filter vs. Where
6. Error Handling
7. Conclusion and Further Help
8. Visual Studio Code

Chapter 8 - Miscellaneous

1. Introduction
2. Menus
3. Aliases
4. Foreach-Object (%)
5. PowerShell Interface Customization
6. Command Logging
7. Summary