The PowerShell Conference Book


Michael T Lombardi and Mark Kraus
Forty subject matter experts have teamed up to bring you the ultimate collection of
PowerShell topics that are designed to be like a conference in a book. This book not only delivers top-notch content that rivals any book on the market, but all royalties are donated to the OnRamp scholarship program which bootstraps others into the industry.
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About the Book
$64.99
Foreword
Contributors
How to Use This Book
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
Part I: Systems Management
Automate Patching With PoshWSUS and
PowerShell Scheduled Jobs
Building SQL Servers with Desired State
Configuration
PowerShell and PKI
Ansible for the Windows Admin
Ansible in Practice, for the PowerShell Aficionado
Getting Started With PowerShell and IoT
Creating Labs With Hyper-V and PowerShell
A Case for PowerCLI on Core
Part II: PowerShell Tips & Tricks
Cross Platform PowerShell: Notes from the Field
PowerShell Development on Containers (PowerShell Core)
Update PowerShell Types to Type Less PowerShell
Tools and Methodologies for PowerShell Class Developers
Composite Formatting
Tricks To Remoting
Using Show-Command to Visualize Complex
Cmdlets
Part III: PowerShell Internals
Writing Your First Compiled PowerShell Cmdlet
PowerShell’s Tokenizer
Consuming REST APIs with PowerShell
PowerShell Casting
Working with Dates
PowerShell, Windows Management Instrumentation, Common Information Model, and Me
PSRemoting: From 0 to Lockdown
Part IV: Handling Data
Keeping Your Users in the Loop with Toast Notifications
ReportCardPS – Create Custom HTML Reports with VMware’s Clarity UI Styling
Measure All the Things with Influx, Grafana and PowerShell
Logging Like a Baus
Read and Write to an Encrypted File
Visualize Your Environment With PSGraph
Working with Windows Events in New Ways
Part V: Cloud Operations
Using Azure Log for PowerShell Custom Logs
Azure Functions with PowerShell
Getting Started With Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell
Building Cloud-Native Modern Application with PowerShell on AWS
Web Mining for Enums
Part VI: Culture
Where PowerShell Has Taken Work
Your First Public Speaking Talk
Chasing the Rabbit – Helping Others to Navigate the Rabbit Hole of Automation
On the Road to DevOps, Don’t Forget the Soft Skills
The Evolution of Your Code
Hands to Head to Heart: Be More Human At Work
Afterword
Notes