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Introduction to PowerShell

By Robert Cain
PowerShell is Microsoft's full featured scripting language. Built on the .Net Framework, it is extensible, powerful, and easy to work with
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(1409)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Sep 7, 2011
Duration
2h 41m
Table of contents
Beginning PowerShell
Introduction 3m Basics of PowerShell 2m Customizing the PowerShell interfaces 4m How aliases make PowerShell easy to learn and use. 8m Basic PowerShell commands. 9m PowerShell Providers 7m dotNet in PowerShell, Summary 1m
PowerShell Variables
Introduction 7m Cmdlets 4m Strings 11m Arrays. 4m Hash Tables. 5m Built in PowerShell variables 3m Summary 1m
PowerShell programming
Introduction and Branching 7m PowerShell Looping 15m Script Blocks 15m Variable Scope. 7m Summary 1m
PowerShell Advanced Programming
Introduction and Functions 11m Custom help 3m Handling errors 7m Working with files 12m Putting it all together. 15m Summary 1m
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Duration
2h 41m
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PowerShell is Microsoft's full featured scripting language. Built on the .Net Framework, it is extensible, powerful, and easy to work with. In this course you'll begin your path to PowerShell mastery by learning the basics, including: how to customize the User Interfaces; basic PowerShell commands; variables; loops; branching; script blocks; working with files; processing user input; creating and extending functions.

About the author
Robert Cain
About the author

Robert C. Cain (arcanecode.com) is a Microsoft MVP, MCTS Certified in BI, and is the owner of Arcane Training and Consulting, LLC. He is also a course author for Pluralsight, team member at Linchpin People, and co-author of 4 books.

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Sep 7, 2011
Duration
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