Grasp advanced PowerShell 7.1 functionalities for effective automation of your environmentKey FeaturesAutomate complex tasks, manipulate data, and secure your environmentWork with dual code for PowerShell 7 and Windows PowerShell to maintain compatibility with older versionsSee PowerShell in action, from learning the fundamentals to creating classes, scripts, and modulesBook DescriptionPowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, although working effectively with these scripts can be challenging. Mastering PowerShell Scripting helps you to navigate through PowerShell's capabilities. This extensively revised edition includes new chapters on debugging and troubleshooting and creating GUIs (online chapter). Learn the new features of PowerShell 7.1 by working with parameters, objects, and .NET classes from within PowerShell 7.1. This comprehensive guide starts with the basics before moving on to advanced topics, including asynchronous processing, desired state configuration, using more complex scripts and filters, debugging issues, and error-handling techniques. Explore how to efficiently manage substantial amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell 7.1. This book will help you to make the most of PowerShell's automation features, using different methods to parse data, manipulate regular expressions, and work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).What you will learnOptimize code with functions, switches, and looping structuresTest and debug your scripts as well as raising and catching errorsWork with objects and operators to test and manipulate dataParse and manipulate different data typesUse jobs, runspaces, and runspace pools to run code asynchronouslyWrite .NET classes with ease within PowerShellCreate and implement regular expressions in PowerShell scriptsMake use of advanced techniques to define and restrict the behavior of parametersWho this book is forThis book is for system administrators who want to automate and speed up their processes using PowerShell and Windows PowerShell. Some familiarity with operating systems would be useful, but not essential.