Getting started with PowerShell

PowerShell is a powerful and very flexible language that is relatively easy to understand.
PowerShell allows you as a system administrator to create scripts that help you automate certain tasks in a simple and very practical way.

Table of contents

• Getting started with PowerShell
• Installation or configuration
• Allow scripts stored on your machine to run without signing
• Aliases and similar functions
• The Pipeline - Using the output of a PowerShell cmdlet
• Call .Net library methods
• Basic use of Import-Csv
• Import from CSV and convert properties to correct type
• Anonymize IP addresses (v4 and v6) in a text file with Powershell
• Application of script prerequisites
• Apply a minimal version of the powershell host
• Run the script as administrator
• Automation of infrastructure
• Simple script for testing black box integration of console applications
• curls
• PowerShell Classes
• Inherit from parent class to child class
• Naming Cmdlet
• How to download the latest artifact from Artifactory using the script
• Powershell script to download the latest artifact
• Communication with RESTful APIs
• TCP communication with PowerShell
• Behavior back in PowerShell
• How to work with functions returns
• Desired state configuration
• Importing psd1 (data file) into a local variable
• List of available DSC resources
• Naming conventions
• Using variables in a string
• Change statement with the Regex parameter
• Change statement with expressions
• Mail sending
• Simple sending message
• Send-MailMessage with predefined parameters
• SMTPClient - Mail with a .txt file in the body message
• Executables running
• Replace the text with a dynamic value by a MatchEvalutor
• Escape special characters
• Several connections
• Using Select-String
• Simple function without parameters
• Basic parameters
• Packet management
• Uninstall a module my name and version
• Update a module by name
• Secrets and credentials management
• GUI in Powershell
• Access a hash value by key.
• Introduction to Pester
• Simple parameter sets
• Parameterset to force the use of a parameter when another is selected.
• Parameter defined to limit the combination of parameters
• Error management
• Redirection operators
• Mix the types of operands: the type of the left operand determines the behavior.
• Use parameters and arguments
• Conditional logic
• Compress archives with a joker
• Update the existing ZIP with Compress-Archive
• Extract a zip with Expand-Archive
• Get all the features installed on a site collection
• Powershell modules
• Dynamic parameter "simple"
• PowerShell workstations
• PowerShell "Streams"; Debug, Verbose, Warning, Error, Output and Information
• Remote Serialization Warning
• Using arguments
• Good practice for automatically cleaning sessions PSSession
• View file size in KB - Calculated properties
• PowerShell Script Parser
• Changing the Execution Policy Using Set-ExecutionPolicy
• Bypassing the Execution Policy for a Single Script
• Other enforcement policies:
• Get the current execution policy
• Security and cryptography
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Create a new S3 bucket
• Download a local file in an S3 bucket