Putting Windows PowerShell to Work

By Jeff Hicks
Once you have a grasp on PowerShell fundamentals and some basic terminology under your belt, you'll need those skills to put PowerShell to work. This course is aimed to providing the context you need to put PowerShell to work from the PS prompt.
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(66)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Aug 29, 2017
Duration
4h 5m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Introduction
Introduction and Meet Your Instructor 2m Lab Setup 7m Related Material 1m Module Summary 1m Course Scenario 1m Course Objectives and Expectations 2m
Extending the Shell
Understanding PowerShell Snapins 2m Where Do Commands Come From? 2m Demonstration: Using PowerShell Snapins 3m Demonstration: Using PowerShellGet 7m Module Summary 1m Demonstration: Using PowerShell Modules 5m Understanding PowerShell Modules 2m
Understanding Objects
Demonstration: Practical Examples 10m Demonstration: Filtering Objects 10m Introduction 1m Demonstration: Group-object 3m Objects in PowerShell 6m Demonstration: Measure-object 4m Module Summary 1m Demonstration: Select-object 5m Demonstration: Object Basics 6m Demonstration: Sort-object 4m PowerShell Object Cmdlets 1m
Objects and the Pipeline
Demonstration: Using Tee-object 3m Demonstration: ForEach-object 8m The ForEach Enumerator 2m Demonstration: The out Cmdlets 9m Module Summary 1m Advanced ForEach-object 3m Pipeline Principals 2m Demonstration: Practical Examples 3m Out Options 1m Demonstration: ForEach Enumerator 3m Using ForEach-object 3m
The Pipeline in Depth
Module Summary 1m Creating Custom Properties 3m Demonstration: Practical Examples 6m Demonstration: Custom Properties 7m PowerShell Parameter Binding 4m Demonstration: Expanding Properties 6m Expanding Object Properties 1m Demonstration: Parameter Binding 7m
PowerShell Formatting
Demonstration: Format-table 5m Demonstration: Format-table Better Output 2m Demonstration: Formatting Basics 5m Demonstration: Format-list 5m The Formatting Process 3m Formatting Cmdlets 2m Demonstration: Formatting Gotchas 4m Module Summary 1m Demonstration: Format-table Views 5m Demonstration: Format-custom 6m Demonstration: Format-wide 4m
PowerShell Background Jobs
Demonstration: Managing Jobs 3m Demonstration: WMI Jobs 3m Demonstration: Creating Background Jobs 6m Demonstration: Working with Job Results 6m Background Job Fundamentals 4m Demonstration: Waiting and Clearing Jobs 4m Demonstration: Invoke-command with Jobs 4m Module Summary 2m
What's Next?
Your Next Steps with PowerShell 4m Putting PowerShell to Work 2m Module Summary 4m
Description
Course info
Rating
(66)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Aug 29, 2017
Duration
4h 5m
Description

So, you've been reading blog posts, searching the Internet, and running commands in PowerShell, although you really don't understand what you are running or why it works the way it does. In this course, Putting Windows PowerShell to Work, you'll learn how to build your skills to be a more efficient PowerShell user. First, you'll discover how to use PowerShell effectively from a command prompt. Next, you'll explore how objects work in the pipeline with cmdlets. Finally, you'll gain an understanding of how PowerShell’s formatting system works, and why. By the end of this course, you'll have the necessary knowledge to begin making PowerShell work effectively for you. Software required: Windows 10 system.

About the author
Jeff Hicks
About the author

Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell and an IT veteran with many years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency.

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Course Overview
[Autogenerated] Hi, everyone. My name is Jeff Fix, and I want to welcome you to my new plural site. Training course putting power shelled work. This course is the next in my series on power Shell Fundamentals in it. I want to get you working with power shell and get power shell toe work for you. The focus is on using power show effectively from the command prompt. Now, this is a critical part of your partial education. If you don't understand this material, you'll never be able to be a good power shelf Scripter. This means you need to understand how the power cell pipeline works and how to use it to your advantage. We need to understand how object behave in the pipeline. You need to know how to leverage parameter binding. You need to know how to use partials for mapping system. I'll even show you how to work with power cell background jobs. I'll cover all of these topics and much, much more. You'll find my course as most of them are full of live demo, with plenty of samples to get you going often with real world and practical examples. Hope you're ready to put power shelter work. Let me show you how with my latest courts from plural site putting power shell toe work

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