Powershell Essential With Labs

Hands-on course full of practice exercises - just to start developing your own PowerShell scripts shortly!

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4

- How to work with PowerShell
- How to use native PowerShell console and Integrated Script Editor
- Thinking in PowerShell (everything is an object)

What you'll learn

How to work with PowerShell

How to use native PowerShell console and Integrated Script Editor

Thinking in PowerShell (everything is an object)

Some basic commands (cmdlets)

The help system

Variables and lists

Controlling the program flow (if

switch

while

for

foreach)

Working with pipeline and pipeline specialized commands (Sort

Where

Measure

Select)

Formatting output

* Requirements

* General knowledge about administation
* General knowledge about programming
* Access to Windows computer (at least Windows 7) with administrative privileges
* PowerShell installed (it is by default) at least version 3

Description

This course id designed for all those, who would like quickly to get some essential knowledge regarding PowerShell and want to put hands on job.

The topics covered within that course will help you to understand the logic or way of thinking in PowerShell, while we don’t concentrate on sophisticated topics related to some specific windows settings.

In the course you will find only video materials, no PDF-s to read or web pages to go through. But what is great is that for every lesson there is a short QUIZ that allows you to quickly check if you understand the topic. There are also EXERCISES for you. You should be able to solve them on your own, but if you have problems – no worries, there are SOLUTIONS available as well!

Regarding the technical requirements, all you need is just a computer with Windows and PowerShell in at least version 3 installed and administrator privileges.

If you don’t know PowerShell at all or just only a little, this course is for you. Maybe you have already downloaded a script from Internet, maybe you have modified it – that’s great! But if you had problems with understanding why the code is written is such and not another way, this tutorial should help you.

We start with basic information on how to start PowerShell console, how to execute commands, how to use help and step by step we come to more advanced topics. PowerShell is a programming language, so you need to know how to work with variables, how to build the if statement, how to execute a loop, format output, work with pipeline...

So if you work with windows, you need or want to learn powershell quickly – I recommend you this course.

Thank you and have fun!

Who this course is for:

Windows administrators wishing to start practicing PowerShell
Windows power users, who want to automate daily tasks

Course content

8 sections • 94 lectures

Introduction 1 lectures

Introduction Preview 01:46

Basic PowerShell commands 20 lectures

Working with PowerShell console - VIDEO Preview 10:03

How to start powershell console
Useful keyboard shortcuts
A couple of useful commands, known as cmd-let and how they are built
How to understand a common error regarding missing permissions and how to avoid it

Working with PowerShell console - QUIZ

Working with PowerShell console - LAB Preview 00:33

Working with PowerShell console - ANSWERS Preview 00:22

Integrated Script Editor - VIDEO Preview 05:57

What is Integrated Script Editor?
How to work with ISE?
Useful keyboard shortcuts

Integrated Script Editor - QUIZ

Integrated Script Editor - LAB Preview 00:29

Integrated Script Editor - ANSWERS Preview 00:24

Aliases - VIDEO Preview 03:36

Discovering predefined aliases in PowerShell
Creating new aliases

Aliases - QUIZ

Aliases - LAB Preview 00:11

Aliases - ANSWERS Preview 00:09

Getting help about commands - VIDEO Preview 06:43

How to use Get-Help command
How to find the correct command using Get-Command

Getting help about commands - QUIZ

Getting help about commands - LAB Preview 00:17

Getting help about commands - ANSWERS Preview 00:06

The help system - VIDEO Preview 09:28

Detailed information regarding Get-Help, Get-Command i Show-Command
How to pass parameters by name and by position
How to update help
Accessing the about file

The Help System - QUIZ

The help system - LAB Preview 00:27

The help system - ANSWERS Preview 00:35

Passing Parameters to Commands 8 lectures

Passing parameters to commands - VIDEO Preview 05:16

Common parameters and their names
How to pass a parameter by list, table, file or variable

Passing Parameters to commands - QUIZ

Passing parameters to commands - LAB Preview 00:34

Passing parameters to commands - ANSWERS Preview 00:13

WhatIf and Confirm Parameters - VIDEO Preview 04:59

How to test results of a command before that command will be indeed executed
How to force a command to ask additional question allowing to proceed
When the value of variable $ConfirmPreference should be changed

WhatIf and Confirm Parameters - QUIZ

WhatIf and Confirm Parameters - LAB Preview 01:00

WhatIf and Confirm Parameters - ANSWERS Preview 00:20

Working with pipeline 32 lectures

Working with pipeline - VIDEO Preview 07:11

What is a pipeline?
How to write data to a file?
How to view data in GridView?
How pipeline works?
When Get-Member should be used?

Working with pipeline - QUIZ

Working with pipeline - LAB Preview 00:48

Working with pipeline - ANSWERS Preview 00:17

Sort-object - VIDEO Preview 04:34

How to use Sort-Object in the pipeline
How to sort by multiple properties
Sorting in reverse order

Sort-Object - QUIZ

Sort-Object - LAB Preview 00:20

Sort-Object - ANSWERS Preview 00:07

Measure-Object - VIDEO Preview 04:11

How to count the number of objects
How to callulate other measures of objects like sum, minimum, maximum or average
How to calculate value basing on a selected property of an object