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Windows PowerShell: Scripting and Toolmaking

  • Number of Courses15 courses
  • Duration39 hours

With a solid foundation in PowerShell essentials, you’ll be able to move immediately into this path which covers the more advanced PowerShell topics of scripting and toolmaking. Through these courses, you’ll learn and gain mastery of some of PowerShell’s more advanced uses. They go beyond the everyday tasks that PowerShell solves, letting you take your first steps towards a truly advanced skillset. By the end of these courses, you’ll have elevated your PowerShell skills to the next level and taken the next step towards PowerShell mastery.

Courses in this path

Beginner

These courses cover the fundamentals and best practices for PowerShell scripting and toolmaking.

Windows PowerShell 4 Toolmaking Fundamentals

  • by Adam Bertram
  • 3h 55m Duration
  •  (175)

Building Advanced Windows PowerShell 4 Functions and Modules

  • by Adam Bertram
  • 4h 4s Duration
  •  (103)

Windows PowerShell Best Practices and Patterns

  • by Don Jones
  • 2h 55m Duration
  •  (249)

Intermediate

These courses begin branching out into more advanced PowerShell topics including reporting with PowerShell HTML, debugging PowerShell in VS Code, remoting fundamentals, and accessing SQL Server databases from PowerShell.

Reporting with Windows PowerShell HTML and Enhanced HTML

  • by Vlad Catrinescu
  • 1h 18m Duration
  •  (52)

Debugging Windows PowerShell in VS Code

  • by Josh Duffney
  • 1h 28m Duration
  •  (73)

Windows PowerShell Remoting Fundamentals

  • by Jeff Hicks
  • 4h 1m Duration
  •  (73)

Accessing SQL Server Databases from Windows PowerShell

  • by Vlad Catrinescu
  • 55m Duration
  •  (59)

Advanced

These courses finish off the path by offering you advanced uses and integrations for PowerShell. This will include crossover courses featuring WPF and Pester.

Building Windows PowerShell GUIs in WPF for Free

  • by Jeff Adkin
  • 2h 21m Duration
  •  (66)

Testing Windows PowerShell with Pester

  • by Robert Cain
  • 4h 11m Duration
  •  (47)

Infrastructure Testing with Pester 3

  • by Adam Bertram
  • 2h 52m Duration
  •  (24)

Windows Workflows with Windows PowerShell

  • by Thomas Lee
  • 2h 31m Duration
  •  (28)

Working with CSV Data in Windows PowerShell

  • by Vlad Catrinescu
  • 51m Duration
  •  (53)

Working with XML Data in Windows PowerShell

  • by Vlad Catrinescu
  • 1h 8m Duration
  •  (32)

Windows PowerShell and Regular Expressions

  • by Jeff Hicks
  • 2h 13m Duration
  •  (25)

Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration

  • by Jeff Hicks
  • 4h 23m Duration

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Adam Bertram
Adam Bertram
Adam Bertram is an independent consultant, technical writer, trainer, and presenter. Adam specializes in consulting and evangelizing all things IT automation, mainly focused around Windows PowerShell. Adam is a Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, 2015 powershell.org PowerShell hero, and has numerous Microsoft IT pro certifications. He authors IT pro course content for Pluralsight, is a regular contributor to numerous print, and online publications and presents at various user groups and conference... more
Don Jones
Don Jones
Don Jones' broad IT experience comes from 20 years in the business, with a strong focus on Microsoft server technologies. He's the author of more than 45 technology books, including titles on administration and software development, and writes monthly columns for the industry's leading periodicals. He's an in-demand speaker at technical conferences and symposia worldwide, and is widely recognized as one of the top trainers in the Microsoft sector.
Vlad Catrinescu
Vlad Catrinescu
Vlad is an Office 365 consultant helping organizations get the most out their Microsoft 365 Digital Workplace. IT Professional at heart, Vlad focuses on helping administrators deploy, manage, automate, and configure governance across services such as SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. As an author, Microsoft Certified Trainer and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped over a million IT Professionals and end-users across the globe to better understand and to ge... more
Josh Duffney
Josh Duffney
Josh Duffney is an IT Professional turned PowerShell Developer who is fascinated by all things DevOps and automation. He is a Pluralsight author, speaker, blogger, technical writer, and an automation engineer.
Jeff Hicks
Jeff Hicks
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
Jeff Adkin
Jeff Adkin
Jeff previously worked at Microsoft for over 8 years in MSIT going through multiple release cycles of SharePoint, Exchange, Groove, Office and Lync. As an avid fan of education, he graduated with his Bachelor of Education and began working between his 2 loves of teaching and technology. He has taught at multiple Fortune 500 companies and government agencies and spoke at numerous tech events.
Robert Cain
Robert Cain
Robert C. Cain (http://arcanecode.com) is a Microsoft MVP, MCTS Certified in BI, and is the owner of Arcane Training and Consulting, LLC. He is a course author for Pluralsight, team member at Linchpin People, and co-author of 4 books. A popular speaker, Robert has presented at events such as the SQL PASS Summit, TechEd, CodeStock, and numerous SQL Saturdays. Robert has over 25 years' experience in the IT industry, working in a variety of fields including manufacturing, insurance, teleco... more
Thomas Lee
Thomas Lee
Thomas is an IT Industry veteran of over 40 years. He has been involved in Microsoft products since the very beginning of the IBM PC and DOS. Thomas provides consultancy and training around a range of Microsoft products, concentrating recently on PowerShell and Lync Server. Thomas has been a Microsoft MVP for 17 of the past 18 years and runs PowerShell training courses around the world. He has also been heavily involved in LCS/OCS/OCSR2 and Lync training across EMEA and around the world. He has ... more

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