PowerShell® Notes for Professionals book

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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
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