The quick start guide for an advanced enterprise PowerShell framework
About This Book
- Introduces industry-proven techniques that improve script efficiency and reliability
- Example-rich guide based on real-world scenarios
- Facilitates building a script that can fully scan a Windows server and identify components
Who This Book Is For
This book is for IT professionals and Windows administrators who would like to gain intensive, hands-on knowledge and skills on PowerShell without spending hours and hours in learning. If you have been struggling to find the time to gain proficiency and confidence with PowerShell and everyday scripting tasks
What You Will Learn
- Create an advanced PowerShell scripting template that provides repeatable code to jumpstart all of your scripting projects
- Learn how to securely encrypt and store usernames, passwords, and other sensitive data in PowerShell scripts and answer files
- Understand how to optimize the performance of scripts to help process large datasets quickly and avoid time-consuming mistakes
- Develop a script to scan for non-standard Windows Server configurations and identify service accounts used on Windows Servers
- Gather a large list of data from a Windows server without locally or remotely logging in interactively
In Detail
Enterprise PowerShell Scripting Bootcamp explains how to create your own repeatable PowerShell scripting framework. This framework contains script logging methodologies, answer file interactions, and string encryption and decryption strategies.
This book focuses on evaluating individual components to identify the system's function, role, and unique characteristics. To do this, you will leverage built-in CMDlets and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to explore Windows services, Windows processes, Windows features, scheduled tasks, and disk statistics. You will also create custom functions to perform a deep search for specific strings in files and evaluate installed software through executable properties.
We will then discuss different scripting techniques to improve the efficiency of scripts. By leveraging several small changes to your code, you can increase the execution performance by over 130%.
By the end of this book, you will be able to tie all of the concepts together in a PowerShell-based Windows server scanning script. This discovery script will be able to scan a Windows server to identify a multitude of components.
Style and approach
This book is all about fast and intensive learning. This means, we don't waste time in helping readers get started. The new content is about leveraging highly-effective examples to build new things, help solving problems in newer and unseen ways, and providing an enterprise-ready platform to create PowerShell Scripts.
Brenton J.W. Blawat
Brenton J.W. Blawat is an entrepreneur, strategic technical advisor, author, and enterprise architect, who has a passion for the procurement of technology in profit-based organizations. He is business-centric and technology-minded. Brenton has many years of experience in bridging the gap between technical staff and decision-makers in several organizations. He takes pride in his ability to effectively communicate with a diverse audience and provide strategic direction for large and small organizations alike. In 2013, Brenton authored his first book, PowerShell 3.0 WMI Starter, Packt Publishing. In March 2015, he authored his second book Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting, Packt Publishing. Brenton currently works at CDW as an Enterprise Architect in strategic solutions and services. CDW is a leading multibrand technology solutions provider in the fields of business, government, education, and healthcare. A Fortune 500 company, it was founded in 1984 and employs approximately 7,200 coworkers. In 2016, the company generated net sales of more than $13.0 billion. As the author of this book, Brenton always extends himself to the PowerShell community. You can follow Brenton on Twitter at @brentblawat or his blog. The author is always open for discussions on the book and will provide feedback to readers, as time allows. If you are an academic institution, Brenton engages with multiple colleges for guest speaking. You can contact Brenton on Twitter for more information. Happy coding!
