Working with CSV Data in Windows PowerShell
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Description
PowerShell is an awesome tool, and as an IT pro you will want to use its powerful automation potential to automate your own tasks. To efficiently automate processes, you will need to use input files, because it's not really automation if you need to give it a manual input for every single process you want to run. In this course, Working with CSV Data in Windows PowerShell, you will learn how to work with CSV files in your PowerShell scripts. First, you will learn what CSV files are, and why/when you should use them. Next, you'll learn how to get information with PowerShell and output it to a CSV file. Finally, you'll learn how to use CSV files as input files for your PowerShell scripts. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of PowerShell needed to work with CSV data in PowerShell.
About the author
Vlad is an Office 365 consultant helping organizations get the most out their Microsoft 365 Digital Workplace. IT Professional at heart, Vlad focuses on helping administrators deploy, manage, automate, and configure governance across services such as SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. As an author, Microsoft Certified Trainer and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped over a million IT Professionals and end-users across the globe to better understand and to get the most out of Office 365 and the greater Microsoft 365 platform. Vlad is the author of three SharePoint books published by Apress and over 25 courses on Pluralsight covering Microsoft 365, Azure, and the Power Platform.
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[Autogenerated] Hello, everyone. My name is glad cache UNESCO and welcome to my course, working with CSV data in PowerShell. I'm a Microsoft Envy p and independent consultant from Montreal, Canada. When automating tasks with PowerShell, you need to use input files because, well, it's not really automating if you need to give it information for every small task. One of the popular input files for PowerShell is CSV short for comma separated values. In this course, we're going to learn how to both use CSV files as input for partial scripts, as well as how to output information to CSV files by using PowerShell. Some of the major topics that we will cover include an introduction to the CSV file format, how to export information from partial to CSV. And lastly, how do you CSV files as input for PowerShell scripts? By the end of the course, you will know how to work with CSV files from your PowerShell scripts. Before beginning this course, you should be familiar with the basics of PowerShell. I hope you will join me on this journey to learn PowerShell with working with CSV data in PowerShell course at Pluralsight