From the course: PowerShell: Functions for Advanced Automation
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Controller scripts with HTML reports
From the course: PowerShell: Functions for Advanced Automation
Controller scripts with HTML reports
- [Instructor] Many of the PowerShell functions and scripts that you will write will be designed to gather information, accessing WMI objects, SIM instances, .NET classes and more. A constant challenge when gathering information is figuring out a way to display it. There are those that are not as comfortable with the way PowerShell displays the information. Sometimes you need to prepare your reports for them. I wrote a function for a course on automating administration. This function will pull a list of users whose passwords are expiring soon. Now let's say your management team asks you for a list of people that need to reset their password and I assume you appreciate help in encouraging users to take care of their own accounts. So let's find a way to pull this information and display it for our leadership team. In my controller script, I can import the module and then go ahead and call that function and it will run. And if I add two cmdlets, I can take that information and I can…
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