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PowerShell Essentials (5 day)
This 5 day course is intended for students who need to learn the essential PowerShell skills required to automate day to day management and administration tasks in a Microsoft Windows Server/Client environment. Being concise and hands-on, it is aimed at quickly getting students familiar with PowerShell terminology and concepts, and in getting productive with the powerful automation features available through this modern scripting technology. In addition to looking at all of the core components of PowerShell, the concepts introduced throughout the course are augmented with plenty of practical hands-on exercises. Although many of the skills learnt can be applied to managing local computer systems, coverage is also provided in how to remotely administer multiple Windows based servers in a network environment.
While delivery is based on a PowerShell 5 platform, almost all of the course content is relevant to both PowerShell versions 3 and 4, enabling attendees familiar with any recent Microsoft Windows operating system to leverage the considerable functionality PowerShell provides.
Students are not expected to have prior scripting or programming experience, although this might occasionally prove beneficial.
This course is fully customisable and can be tailored to include only the material required.
Students should be familiar with working in a Microsoft Windows Server/Client operating system environment, and possess previous administration skills and hands on experience. No previous knowledge of PowerShell is assumed.
Upon successful completion of the full course, students will be able to:
1. Introduction to PowerShell PowerShell – The Big Picture
Why use PowerShell
PowerShell Hosts
Customising the Hosting Environment
Navigating the PowerShell Host
Transcripts
2. Getting Help in PowerShell How to Get Help Using Help and “About” Files
Parameterising Help
3. Running Commands
Using Cmdlets
Aliases
Using Cmdlet Parameters
Basic Rules You Must Follow
4. Working with Modules What is a Module?
Using Modules
Managing Modules
5. Working with PowerShell Operators What are Operators?
Comparison Operators
Logical Operators
Arithmetic Operators
String Operators
Math Operators
Other Operators
6. Working with PowerShell Objects What are Objects in PowerShell?
Properties and Methods
Sorting Objects
Selecting Object Properties
Filtering Objects
Grouping Objects
Measuring Objects
Enumerating Objects
Working with Objects
7. Inside the PowerShell Pipeline What is the Pipeline?
Passing Objects through the Pipeline
Passing Parameters through the Pipeline
Other Pipeline Issues
8. Inputting, Outputting, and Formatting Data
Passing Data into the Shell
Outputting Data
Exporting Data
Formatting Data
9. Remoting in PowerShell What is Remoting?
Remoting Issues
Implementing Remoting
Creating Remoting Sessions
Managing Sessions
Testing Remoting
10. Running and Scheduling Jobs
Running Jobs Locally
Running Jobs with Remoting
Managing Jobs
WMI Jobs
Creating and Managing Scheduled jobs
11. Credentials
Credentials Overview
Implementing Credentials
12. Utilising Regular Expressions
Regular Expression Syntax
Working with Regular Expressions
Applied Examples
13. Working with HTML and XML Data
Reading and Manipulating an HTML Page
Converting Data to HTML
Reading and Manipulating XML Data
Exporting Data to XML
Reading XML Nodes with Select-XML
14. PowerShell Providers and PSDrives
Introducing PSProviders
Introducing PSDrives
Working with PSDrives
Refining Searches for Items
Working with Items
Working with Item Properties
15. Working with Variables and Arrays
Naming Variables
Variable Data Types
Working with Variables
Built in Variables
Working with Arrays
16. Hash Tables and Script Blocks
Working with Hash tables
Ordered Hash Tables
Implementing Hash Tables
Defining Script Blocks
17. PowerShell Security
Introducing PowerShell Security
How Security is Implemented in PowerShell
The Execution Policy
18. Advanced PowerShell Syntax
Here-Strings
Splatting
Running External Utilities
Other Techniques
19. Controlling Script Execution
PowerShell’s Scripting Language Defining conditions
Looping Through Code
Looping Through Collections of Objects
Break and Continue
Branching Constructs
20. Scripts and Functions
Creating Scripts
Passing Data to Scripts
Outputting Data from Scripts
“Filtering” Scripts
Creating Reusable Functions
21. Understanding Scope
Introducing the Concept of Scope
Dot Sourcing
Manipulating Cross Scope Elements
Private Scope and Strictness
22. Modules and Manifests
Creating and Using Script Modules
Creating and Using Module Manifests
23. Handling Errors
Concepts and Terminology
Techniques for Handling Errors
The Trap Construct
The Try...Catch...Finally Construct
24. Debugging Scripts
Using Write-Debug
Making Use of Breakpoints
Using Set-PSDebug
25. WMI and CIM
Introducing WMI
Using WMI
Introducing CIM
Using CIM
26. Working with Web Data and Services
Retrieving Data from the Web Working with Web Responses
Working with HTML Documents
Working with JSON Data
REST and SOAP Web Services
27. Windows Administration Examples
| Group discount | ||
| 1 place | £ 3750 | n/a |
| 2 places | £ 4500 | n/a |
| 3 places | £ 11250 | £ 5250 |
| 4 places | £ 15000 | £ 6000 |
| 5 places | £ 18750 | £ 6750 |
| 6 places | £ 22500 | £ 7500 |
| 7 places | £ 26250 | £ 8250 |
| 8 places | £ 30000 | £ 9000 |
