POWERSHELL SCRIPTING ADVANCED

Powershell Advance Scripting

Core Concepts of Powershell

• Powershell Help System
• Concept of Pipeline
• Powershell PSProvider
• Formatting System
• Windows management Instrumentation
• Filtering and Comparison
• Arrays and Hashtable
• Powershell Scripting

Scripting Overview

• Get Started with Scripting Overview
• Understanding the Use of Scope
• Use the If Construct to make decisions
• Use Do/While/Until to repeat the commands
• Use foreach to enumerate objects
• Use for Construct to repeat the commands
• Find help for other scripting construct

Powershell Advanced Function

• Use Powershell Advanced Functions
• Specify functions capabilities
• Specify usage for a functions
• Create a function skeleton
• Declare parameters in a function
• Test the functions parameters
• Write a main code for a function
• Add verbose output to a function
• Implement logging in function
• Test completed functions

More capabilities for advanced function

• Discover other advanced functions
• Add debugging features to a function
• Validate user input to a function
• Add support for –confirm and –whatif

Handle Errors

• Handling Errors
• Add error handling to a function

Debugging

• Debugging any errors
• Deal with typos and syntax errors
• Deal with mis-constructed constructs
• Add trace code to debug logic errors
• Debug wit psbreakpoints

Format Custom Views

• Format Custom Views
• Use default views as a starting point
• Add a type to custom output object
• Create and use the xml view file

Scripts and Manifest Modules

• Use scripts and manifest modules
• Turn script in to a script module
• Create module manifest for multiple modules
• Add a module-level setting variable

Writing Help

• Write Help
• Create Comment based help in module

Introduction to Desired state configuration

• Understanding Desired State Configuration
• Creating and deploying a DSC configuration
• Understanding Pull and Push Deployment

Practical Implementation with Active Directory, Azure

• Automating Active directory
• Automating Azure IAAS with Powershell