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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568457
Length 674 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise 5. Exploring .NET 6. Managing Active Directory 7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise 8. Implementing Enterprise Security 9. Managing Storage 10. Managing Shared Data 11. Managing Printing 12. Managing Hyper-V 13. Managing Azure 14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell 15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Installing PowerShell 7

PowerShell 7 is not installed in Windows by default, at least not at the time of writing. The PowerShell team has made PowerShell 7.1 available from the Microsoft Store, which is useful to install PowerShell 7.1 or later on Windows 10 systems. As the Microsoft Store is not overly relevant to Windows Server installations, you can install PowerShell by using a script, Install-PowerShell.ps1, which you download from the internet, as shown in this recipe. You can also use this recipe on Windows 10 hosts.

Getting ready

This recipe uses SRV1, a Windows Server workgroup host. There are no features of applications loaded on this server (yet).

How to do it...

  1. Setting an execution policy for Windows PowerShell (in a new Windows PowerShell console)
    Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force
    
  2. Installing the latest versions of NuGet and PowerShellGet
    Install-PackageProvider...
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