Creating PowerShell Modules
This course demonstrates how to create, deploy and document PowerShell modules.
What you'll learn
PowerShell modules allow scripts, cmdlets and other assets to be integrated into PowerShell in order to extend its functionality. This course starts with an overview of PowerShell module fundamentals, and then proceeds to explore and explain script modules, binary and manifest modules, as well as dynamic modules. The course concludes with a look at how integrated help documentation for PowerShell scripts and modules can be created, deployed and updated.
Table of contents
- Introducing Binary and Manifest Modules 3m
- Simple Binary Modules with Demo 4m
- Binary Modules with No Footprint with Demo 4m
- What is a Manifest Module? 8m
- Manifest Cmdlets with Demo 3m
- Manifest Hash Table Keys - Details 5m
- Using Manifest Keys 3m
- Loading a Manifest with Demo 2m
- Module Versioning 2m
- Manifest Module Best Practices and Module Summary 3m
About the author
Thomas is an IT Industry veteran of over 40 years. He has been involved in Microsoft products since the very beginning of the IBM PC and DOS. Thomas provides consultancy and training around a range of Microsoft products, concentrating recently on PowerShell and Lync Server. Thomas has been a Microsoft MVP for 17 of the past 18 years and runs PowerShell training courses around the world. He has also been heavily involved in LCS/OCS/OCSR2 and Lync training across EMEA and around the world. He has ... more