Putting Windows PowerShell to Work
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.
What you'll learn
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.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Objects in PowerShell 6m
- PowerShell Object Cmdlets 1m
- Demonstration: Object Basics 6m
- Demonstration: Select-object 5m
- Demonstration: Sort-object 4m
- Demonstration: Group-object 3m
- Demonstration: Filtering Objects 10m
- Demonstration: Measure-object 4m
- Demonstration: Practical Examples 10m
- Module Summary 1m
- Pipeline Principals 2m
- Using ForEach-object 3m
- Advanced ForEach-object 3m
- The ForEach Enumerator 2m
- Demonstration: ForEach-object 8m
- Demonstration: ForEach Enumerator 3m
- Out Options 1m
- Demonstration: The out Cmdlets 9m
- Demonstration: Practical Examples 3m
- Demonstration: Using Tee-object 3m
- Module Summary 1m
- The Formatting Process 3m
- Formatting Cmdlets 2m
- Demonstration: Formatting Basics 5m
- Demonstration: Format-table 5m
- Demonstration: Format-table Better Output 2m
- Demonstration: Format-table Views 5m
- Demonstration: Formatting Gotchas 4m
- Demonstration: Format-list 5m
- Demonstration: Format-wide 4m
- Demonstration: Format-custom 6m
- Module Summary 1m
About the author
Jeffery Hicks is a veteran IT Pro with 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher, and consultant. He has been creating Pluralsight content for over 10 years. Jeff has written for numerous online sites and print publications, and speaks frequently at technology confer... more