As per Harvard Business Review, a way to effectively learn is to cycle between information feasting and information fasting. Given that we have familiarised ourselves (and perhaps a little overwhelmed by the volume of the last chapter), we will take a lighter approach to our first steps to administration using PowerShell.

So far, we have seen how to run cmdlets, what their parameters are, how to set and use aliases, etc. In this chapter, we would learn how to use some basic utilities, work with processes, and call applications.

Also, even though the title of the book says Linux, most of the recipes in the book should work on Windows as well (especially PowerShell 6.0 on Windows); minor modifications may be required, such as using the backslash in paths.