1 Introduction to PowerShell 7.x

 

This chapter covers:

  • What is PowerShell?
  • Why is it important?
  • How do I use this book?
  • Who should know PowerShell?
  • What’s the difference between PowerShell 5.x and 7.x?
  • An example of why learning PowerShell makes your job easier

If you have picked up this book, congratulations!  You have just found a resource that will not only make your life easier; it will make you more efficient and more marketable.  PowerShell is a remarkable tool for I.T Professionals.  In the industry, there is a line being drawn, those Admins who can automate tasks and those that do them the hard way.

Look at all of the systems that have come to dominate the industry.  WSUS, SCCM, Jenkins and Kubernetes just to name a few.  If you look at what these tools do, the one thing they have in common is taking things we would have previously done by hand, and instead automating them at scale.  Automation is quite simply the most important resource an I.T. Professional can learn today to make them relevant in the future; and PowerShell is one of the best ways to automate your domain. 

1.1 What is PowerShell?

1.2 Why is it important?

1.3 How do I use this book?

1.4 Who Should know Windows PowerShell?

1.5 What’s the difference between PowerShell 5.x and 7.x?

1.6 How does this make a System Admin’s life easier?

1.6.1 The traditional way includes:

1.7 The PowerShell way includes:

1.8 Summary