Tiny PowerShell Projects Version 4

Burns Tiny PowerShell Projects MEAP V04
Copyright
welcome
brief contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to PowerShell 7.x
	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
Chapter 2: Automating email address creation
	2.1 Project Code: Automating email address creation
		2.1.1 How to run the script
		2.1.2 What does this script do?
	2.2 What’s a string?
	2.3 Variables
	2.4 Write-Host
	2.5 Modifying Strings
		2.5.1 Trim
		2.5.2 Substring
		2.5.3 ToUpper
		2.5.4 ToLower
		2.5.5 Concatenation
	2.6 Try this too!
	2.7 Summary
Chapter 3: Create a user (the easy way)
	3.1 Project Code
		3.1.1 What does it do?
	3.2 Comments
	3.3 Input/Output
		3.3.1 Read-Host
		3.3.2 Menus
		3.3.3 Output and Pipes
		3.3.4 Pipe
		3.3.5 Write-Output
		3.3.6 Tee-Object
	3.4 Get-ADUser
		3.4.1 Active Directory Methods
	3.5 New-ADUser
		3.5.1 Where-Object
	3.6 Start-Sleep
	3.7 Putting it all together
		3.7.1 Read-Host
		3.7.2 Create a Username
		3.7.3 Create a Log File
		3.7.4 Write-Output
		3.7.5 New-ADUser
		3.7.6 Start-Sleep
		3.7.7 Get-ADUser
	3.8 Summary
Chapter 4: Bugs! (troubleshooting common script issues)
	4.1 Making Sense of the Red
	4.2 Project code
		4.2.1 Tips and Tricks
	4.3 Syntax issues
	4.4 Logical issues
		4.4.1 VSCode BreakPoints
		Add Breakpoint
		phantom variables
		Stepping through Breakpoints
	4.5 Summary
Chapter 5: The power unlock
	5.1 What Does the Script do?
	5.2 Project Code
	5.3  Arrays: a great place to keep your stuff
		Variables vs Arrays
		Calling an Array
		Referencing Array Objects
		Splits
	5.4 Loops
		For Loops
	5.5 PSObjects
	5.6 Unlock-ADAccount
	5.7 Try this too
		5.7.1 Unlock All Locked Accounts.
	5.8 Summary
Chapter 6: Manage groups like a boss
	6.1 Using Conditional Logic
		6.1.1 If
		6.1.2 If / Else
	6.2 More Active Directory Methods and Cmdlets
		6.2.1 Get-ADUser
		Memberof
		6.2.2 Add-ADGroupMember
	6.3 Putting it all together
		6.3.1 Creating a Menu
		6.3.2 Confirming with the IF/Else statement
		6.3.3 Create a variable containing the groups
		6.3.4 Loop through the list
	6.4 Summary
Chapter 7: One-click Exchange account fix
	7.1 Functions
	7.2 More Looping
		7.2.1 Foreach Loop
		7.2.2 Do-Until Loop
		The “Or” Conditional Logic
	7.3 Select-Object
		Select-Object -Property
		Select-Object -ExpandProperty
		Using this in our script
	7.4 Exchange Specific Cmdlets
		7.4.1 New-MailboxExportRequest
		7.4.2 Get-MailboxExportRequest
		7.4.3 Disable-Mailbox
		7.4.4 Enable-Mailbox
		7.4.5 New-MailboxImportRequest
		7.4.6 Get-MailboxImportRequest
	7.5 Putting it all together
		7.5.1 Create a Function
		7.5.2 Get User Information
		7.5.3 Backup User’s Mailbox
		7.5.4 Wait for Backup to Complete
		7.5.5 Disable Bad Email Box
		7.5.6 Enable New Mailbox
		7.5.7 Import Backup from Old Mailbox
		7.5.8 Wait for Import to Complete
	7.6 Summary
Chapter 8: Unified user creation
	8.1 Project Code
	8.2 Script Parameters
		8.2.1 Mandatory Parameters
		8.2.2 How we use Parameters in our Script
	8.3 PSSession
		8.3.1 New-PSSession
		8.3.2 Get-PSSession
		8.3.3 Import-PSSession
		8.3.4 Remove-PSSession
		8.3.5 How we use PSSessions in our Script
	8.4 If not
		8.4.1 How we use If Not in our Script
	8.5 Get-Credential
		8.5.1 How we use Get-Credential in our Script
	8.6 Filtering performance
		8.6.1 Measure-Command
		8.6.2 Null values
		8.6.3 Filtering Null Values
		8.6.4 How we use NULL values in our Script
	8.7 Summary