Learn to use the open source, cross-platform version of Windows PowerShell

Windows administrators have been expected to understand PowerShell for years. As Microsoft's standard automation tool, every administrator eventually must learn to use it.

PowerShell 7, the new cross-platform, open source version of the tool, substantially improves upon PowerShell Core and Windows PowerShell. The PowerShell community came together to address complaints many shared, developing a tool that offers greater compatibility and functionality than ever before. Microsoft has embraced PowerShell 7 as the future of PowerShell.

PowerShell 7 for IT Professionals teaches you how to navigate PowerShell 7 and use it for a range of common IT tasks. In this book, you learn to use PowerShell 7 to manage networking, use AD/DNS/DHCP, work with Azure, and plenty more. Author Thomas Lee is an active member of the PowerShell community who has leveraged his own professional experience and expertise to ensure that readers thoroughly understand this essential topic. He uses real-world examples to illustrate the concepts described in the book and provides sample code so you can follow along. This book shows you everything PowerShell 7 has to offer. More importantly, you see how to use PowerShell 7 to your benefit, making PowerShell 7 for IT Professionals an essential guide for all Windows administrators today.

• Familiarize yourself with PowerShell 7's administrative environment
• Learn how the new environment affects how you handle reporting
• Understand how to automate a range of tasks with PowerShell 7
• Learn how to take advantage of PowerShell 7 through real world examples and sample code

Take advantage of everything Microsoft’s new PowerShell 7 has to offer

PowerShell 7 for IT Pros is your guide to using PowerShell 7, the open source, cross-platform version of Windows PowerShell. Windows IT professionals can begin setting up automation in PowerShell 7, which features many improvements over the early version of PowerShell Core and Windows PowerShell. PowerShell 7 users can enjoy the high level of compatibility with the Windows PowerShell modules they rely on today. This book shows IT professionals—especially Windows administrators and developers—how to use PowerShell7 to engage in their most important tasks, such as managing networking, using AD/DNS/DHCP, leveraging Azure, and more.

To make it easy to learn everything PowerShell 7 has to offer, this book includes robust examples, each containing sample code so readers can follow along. Scripts are based on PowerShell 7 running on Windows 10 19H1 or later and Windows Server 2019.

• Learn to navigate the PowerShell 7 administrative environment

• Use PowerShell 7 to automate networking, Active Directory, Windows storage, shared data, and more

• Run Windows Update, IIS, Hyper-V, and WMI and CIM cmdlets within PowerShell 7

• Understand how to handle reporting in the new PowerShell 7 environment

PowerShell 7 for IT Pros provides exclusive coverage of using PowerShell with both cloud-based systems and virtualized environments (Hyper V and Azure). Written by PowerShell veteran Thomas Lee, this is the only book you’ll need to get started with PowerShell 7.