Overview
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Get up and running with the latest version of PowerShell. Learn how to use modules, script and automate tasks, and use remote management to control thousands of machines.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Why PowerShell? Why now?
- Installing the Windows Management Framework 5
- Launching PowerShell as an administrator
- Customizing PowerShell for comfort
- Running commands (cmdlets)
- Updating your most important resource: Help
- Discovering commands
- Exploring help options
- Understanding cmdlet syntax
- Understanding and resolving terse commands
- Working with PowerShell snap-ins
- Finding and using local modules
- Installing modules and packages from a repository
- Understanding the purpose of the pipeline
- Working with files and printers
- Working with CSVs
- Working with XML
- Storing data as a webpage
- Understanding the importance of objects
- Selecting the information you want
- Sorting the information
- Customizing your own properties
- Filtering specific data
- Working with methods
- Exploring PowerShell automation security
- Creating your first script
- Using variables for storage
- Using the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)
- Creating a parameterized script
- Using parameter attributes
- Using comment-based help
- Introducing PowerShell remoting
- Enabling PowerShell remoting
- Managing one-to-one operations
- Scaling out with one-to-many operations
- Exploring practical application of remote management
- Increasing capabilities with implicit remoting
- Next steps
