Fundamentals of PowerShell

Beef up your resume and become a power user by learning PowerShell.

4.15 (73 reviews)

Udemy

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What you will learn

Understand the PowerShell console and IDE

Be able to navigate the help system

Understand the basics of running PowerShell commands

Understand object oriented design of PowerShell

Understand what the PSProvider is and how to navigate it

Why take this course?

When Microsoft first released PowerShell many simply saw it as an updated version of VBScript. However, Microsoft loaded it with power, and made the decision that it would be the technology to be used to administer all of their products. Over time modules came out for Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory, and other environments. Other companies who sold software to run on Windows servers saw the advantages of PowerShell for administration of their software, and many have started to release PowerShell modules too.

Now if you look at listings of skills companies are looking for when searching for new employees PowerShell is showing up as one of the prominent required or strongly desired skills. Knowledge of PowerShell could be the deciding factor on if you land that next job, or the promotion to a better position in your current company.

This course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of the PowerShell environment. It will lay the groundwork and foundation for more advanced PowerShell skills. You will learn what a PowerShell cmdlet is, and how much power you will have at your fingertips. You will learn about the object oriented nature of PowerShell and how to leverage that to be a true power user or power administrator.

Content

Setting up a lab environment

Introduction

Install virtual Windows workstation environment

Installing a virtual learning lab

Introduction to PowerShell

Introduction to PowerShell environment

The power in PowerShell

Choosing the PowerShell environment

PowerShell new direction for Microsoft

Learning the help system

Updating help and finding commands

Interpreting the help system

Interpreting the Get-Help output

Finding commands using the help system

The PowerShell help system quiz

PowerShell About Helpfiles

Running commands

Running PowerShell Commands

PowerShell Aliases

PowerShell commands and aliases

Notes on Running PowerShell commands

Reformatting output

Using Format-List

Using Format-Table

Writing to a file and the pipeline at the same time

Using Where-Object to filter results

PowerShell providers

PowerShell PSProviders - The File System

PowerShell PSProviders - The Registry

Getting file listing on a remote computer

Installing remote support for Active Directory

The pipeline and the advantage of object oriented design of PowerShell

What is an object and object oriented design?

Exploring objects and properties

Sorting objects

Selecting objects

Selecting objects quiz

Process flow through the pipeline

Using Where-Object to filter results

Introduction to Variables

What is a variable?

Using the THIS variable

Introduction to managing Active Directory

Using Get-ADUser

Using Get-ADGroup and Get-ADGroupMember

Bonus Material: Quick Reference Guides

Punctuation Quick Reference

PowerShell Operators Quick Reference

Using PowerShell for renaming batches of files

Building Windows server on AWS

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Reviews

Kevin

February 9, 2020

I am a new student in a Microsoft System Server program. This material is wonderful. I wish could have started viewing it completely through before I started my program. However, it will help me from this point forward. Thanks for making this training tutorial. You are a great presenter of the materials. -Kevin

Jeffrey

October 10, 2018

The course is very good for those beginning in Powershell, however I feel a lot of basics were left out that could have been included. That said, the instructor is very knowledgeable on the content and presents it clearly to the user. This would certainly be a 5 star course if it contained more content including real world examples.

Amanda

December 27, 2017

It'd have been nice if we write a few example programs to apply do/for/while loop and logic on different operators. A few examples on how to connect to various databases would make this course perfect. The first section of creating a virtual environment is also unnecessary and it ate up all of the memory on my laptop I ended up with the blue screen of death.

Joshua

November 13, 2017

I don't want to rate this course as actually bad - it's not. It's just hard to tell, when beginning to learn a new skill, which Udemy courses may be effective for your overall skill level, and learning style. If you do not have any background in programming, scripting, or command line at all? Get this course. This is exactly where you need to start, it would be fantastic for introducing you to new overall ideas and concepts that you may not be familiar with. The instructor explains things very well, he's easy to understand, he doesn't go too fast or get too far ahead, and it's just generally an informative and helpful course. If that's your background. Otherwise, look elsewhere. I've dabbled in programming/scripting/batch files (though never learned a language fluently), and I've used command line going all the way back to MS-DOS 3.3. With that background, far too much of this material was extraneous. It DOES give a decent introduction to some Powershell commands and syntaxes and concepts. But for someone with a background as described, the information could have been packed into fewer videos without losing anything. Great course for true beginner. If that's you, get this course now. It's what you need. I'm not marking it 3 stars because it's a bad course. I did so because I feel like the description led me to (incorrectly) believe it was of a background skill level more on par with my own.

Paul

November 3, 2017

Great information, easy to listen to. The information is clearly explained and easy to retain. If I have a complaint, it might be the speed of some of the things that are run. but that's what pause is for.

Lilia

July 13, 2017

Reading the last text about renaming files I realised that it is the first cource among others that really EXPLAINS things and not only shows naked facts as most of other cources do.