Putting PowerShell to Work
This course will teach you how to get the most from running commands interactively at a PowerShell prompt.
What you'll learn
PowerShell is different. It is a management engine that you can interface with directly at a console prompt. Once you know a few key commands, you can discover what you need to know to put PowerShell to work. In this course, Putting PowerShell to Work, you’ll learn how to get the most from your work at a PowerShell prompt. First, you’ll explore how to run discover and run native PowerShell commands. Next, you’ll discover how PowerShell uses objects in the pipeline. Finally, you’ll learn how to filter with PowerShell so that you only get the results you need. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the PowerShell skills and knowledge to run effective PowerShell commands in a pipelined expression.
Table of contents
- Version Check 0m
- Course Preparation 2m
- Understanding PowerShell Commands 5m
- Running PowerShell Commands 5m
- PowerShell History 1m
- Demo: Discovering PowerShell Commands 3m
- Demo: Working with Aliases 2m
- Demo: Running PowerShell Commands 7m
- Demo: Using Command History 2m
- Demo: Using PSReadline 5m
- Understanding the PowerShell Host 8m
- The Power of the Pipeline 2m
- Sorting and Grouping Objects 2m
- Selecting and Measuring Objects 2m
- Demo: Group Object 3m
- Demo: Sort Object 6m
- Demo: Select Object 4m
- Demo: Measure Object 2m
- Demo: Working with Objects 5m
- Working with Individual Objects 4m
- Demo: ForEach Object 16m
- Demo: ForEach Object Parallel 4m
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