Windows store, Conference book #3, Script logging, Type Acceleratores
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PowerShell Einsteigerworkshop 22. Oct. 2020 ONLINE
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PowerShell Preview available in the Windows Store
A milestone happened recently! You can install Powershell-Preview from the Windows Store!. Search for Powershell-Preview (dont use „Powershell“ only, as you might oversee the preview) and install. The app gets installed in
(Get-AppxPackage -Name '*power*').InstallLocation
To integrate it in your Windows Terminal profile create a new profile (dont forget to create a new guid if you copy an existing one) and start
"C:///Program Files///WindowsApps///Microsoft.PowerShellPreview_7.1.6.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe///pwsh".
PowerShell Conference Book #3 available
Get it, read it and learn from it. Agenda below.
- Foreword
- Contributors
- How to Use This Book
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- I Systems Management
- 1. Contain Yourself – Long-Running PowerShell Scripts in Containers
- 2. VMware PowerCLI and the Art of the API
- 3. Build, Test, Deploy – Software Distribution Using Intune
- II Tips & Tricks
- 4. Save Your Standards from Becoming Rarely Used Checklists; Codify Them
- 5. Spice Up Your Console Output or Prompt with ANSI
- 6. Writing Your First Visual Studio Code Extension
- 7. How to Add Voice to Your PowerShell Code or Scripts
- III DevOps
- 8. Git for Admins That Don’t Get Git
- 9. Learning new things with PowerShell
- 10. Testing SQL Code with Pester
- 11. Testing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Pester
- 12. Automate Azure Sentinel Deployment
- 13. AWS Lambda
- IV PowerShell Language Features
- 14. Exploring Experimental Features in PowerShell 7
- 15. Regale a Radical Reading of a Reflection in Remoting
- Afterword
Deep Script block logging in the EventLog
Wolfgang Sommergut explaines scriptblock logging in this blog-post. Read it and learn how you can log PS-events, to detect suspisious activities. Link
PowerShell type Accelerators
PowerShell code often includes [ThisKindOfEntry]. Learn about type accelerators, which are available and how to use them. Link