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PowerShell Scripting

15 Courses
13 Labs
64 Hours
Skill IQ

Transform your administrative capabilities from manual workflows to scalable, code-driven automation with the PowerShell Scripting learning path. You will move from executing basic commands to building sophisticated tools and automated reporting systems that manage hundreds of servers simultaneously. After this path, you’ll be able to jump to more advanced tasks and concepts with different tools throughout the IT industry.

Note that this path covers PowerShell 7 and not Windows PowerShell. We have other existing content to cover Windows PowerShell. For this path, Windows is the demonstrated operating system, but PowerShell 7 is supported on Linux as well as macOS.

Content in this path
Getting Started with PowerShell Scripting

Additional Learning

This section goes into additional PowerShell topics and are beyond the scope of the main path and not covered within the Skill IQ.

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What You'll Learn
  • Leveraging PowerShell background jobs
  • Managing Computers with CIM cmdlets
  • Formatting PowerShell Output
  • Working with Data in PowerShell
  • Getting Data from the Internet
  • Scripting with PowerShell
  • Extending PowerShell
  • Manipulating Common Object Types
Prerequisites
  • The target audience member for the courses in this path is an IT Pro with little to no scripting experience or prior PowerShell knowledge. We're assuming they are coming from a Windows background. Even though PowerShell 7 runs cross-platform, this course is assuming the viewer is using a Windows platform. We're also assuming some experience with Windows servers and/or desktops along with basic networking knowledge.
Related topics
  • Scripting
  • Automation
  • Windows PowerShell
  • Microsoft
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Windows Server
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