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Course Introduction • 5min
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Course Introduction
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PowerShell System Requirements
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Getting Started with Windows PowerShell • 56min
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The Basics of PowerShell
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Installing and Updating PowerShell
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The Text Based Console Part 1- An Overview
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Text Based Console Part 2 - An Overview
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The ISE (Intelligent Scripting Environment) Part 1
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The ISE (Intelligent Scripting Environment) Part 2
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Setting up Visual Studio Code for PowerShell
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Use the OGV Command to Easily View console data!
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Getting Help and Finding Commands • 39min
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Getting Help and Finding Commands Part 1
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Getting Help and Finding Commands Part 2
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Getting Help and Finding Commands Part 3
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Help System LAB Questions
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Help System Lab Answers 1-4
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Help System Lab Answers 5-9
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PowerShell Command Syntax • 33min
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Command Syntax Part 1
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Command Syntax Part 2
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Command Syntax Part 3
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Command Syntax Lab Questions
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Command Syntax Lab Answers
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PowerShell Objects and Properties • 35min
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Objects, Properties and Methods Part 1
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Objects, Properties and Methods Part 2
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Objects, Properties and Methods Part 3
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Questions 1-9 for Objects, Properties and Methods
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Answers to Questions 1-7 O-P-M
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Answers to Questions 8,9 O-P-M
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The PowerShell Pipeline • 24min
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The Pipeline Part 1
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The Pipeline Part 2
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PowerShell Providers • 30min
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What are PowerShell Providers
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Using PS Drive
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PowerShell Provider CMDlets -1
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PowerShell Providers CMDlets -2
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Student Assignments
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PowerShell Arrays and Variables • 28min
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PowerShell Variables
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PowerShell Arrays
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PowerShell Variables Challenge
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PowerShell Variables Solution
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PowerShell Loops • 19min
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For Loops
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While Loops
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For Each Loop
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PowerShell Conditional Statements • 11min
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On Premises Lab Setup • 36min
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Should You Watch This Section?
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Downloading and Installing VirtualBox
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Downloading Windows Server 2019
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Creating Your Virtual Network
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Creating Your Virtual Machines
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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions
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Installing Windows Server
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Installing the Active Directory Domain Services Role
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Basic Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell • 2hr 27min
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Configuring PowerShell Execution Policy with Group Policy
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Installing Windows Server Roles and Features with Powershell
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Running Powershell Scripts as Scheduled Tasks
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Creating Organizational Units with Powershell
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Creating and Managing Active Directory User Accounts with PowerShell
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Move all AD Users in a Group to a Specific Organizational Unit
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Generate a list of AD Users and their OU
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PowerShell Splatting
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Bulk Install Windows MSU Files Automatically with PowerShell
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Lab: Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell
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Send Emails with PowerShell • 22min
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Send Emails from Gmail with PowerShell
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Create Password Expiration Notification Script
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PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Basics • 1hr 48min
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DSC Overview
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Enabling PSRemoting with Group Policy
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The DSC Resource Kit
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Configuring The Local Config Manager for DSC Push
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Uninstalling Windows Features with DSC
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Lab: Desired State Configuration (DSC)
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PowerShell Modules • 58min
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Finding and installing PowerShell modules
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Creating a Custom PowerShell Module: Files and Folders
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Writing the New-Greeting Function
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Writing the Get-GreetingMessage Function
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Creating the PSM1 PowerShell Module File
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Creating a PowerShell Module Manifest and Importing our Custom Module
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Writing automated module tests with Pester
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Powershell Challenges • 1hr 55min
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Section Overview
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The Trusted Hosts List Challenge
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The Trusted Hosts List Answer
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Starting a Remote Session Challenge
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Starting a Remote Session Answer
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Rename a Computer Challenge
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Rename a Computer Answer
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Change a Password on a Remote Computer Challenge
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Change a Password on a Remote Computer Answer
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How to Copy Files To-From a Remote Machine Challenge
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How to Copy Files To-From a Remote Machine using VSC Answer
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How to Export Logs to a CSV File Challenge
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How to Export Logs to a CSV File Answer
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How to Create Multiple Folders on the Host Machine using Powershell
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How to Create Multiple Folders on the Host Machine using Powershell Answer
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Who Rebooted the Server ID1074 Challenge
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Who Rebooted the Server
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How can you get Info on all your Hard Drives Challenge
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How can you get Info on all your Hard Drives Answer
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How can I get a list of CPU's and Installed Printers, Last Boot-up Time Challenge
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How can I get a List of CPU's and Installed Printers, Last Boot-up Time Answer
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How can I Automate Tasks with Task Scheduler Challenge
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How can I Automate Tasks with the Task Scheduler Answer
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About your instructors

Paul Hill
Expert IT Instructor
Paul is an IT Professional with over 14 years of experience currently working as a Network Administrator in contract support of various Federal Agencies in the United States.
He has been teaching online courses for the past 5 years and taught over 250k students in 195 countries.

Robert Hill
Expert IT Instructor
Robert has worked in the IT field for more than 30 years primarily in support of the US Government. Robert's experience ranges from Windows Server, various server hardware and networking. Robert is an MCSA, MCP and CNE Novell Netware certified.
What skills will I learn in this course?
- Understand the Powershell command line
- Install and Update Windows PowerShell
- How to write Powershell scripts to automate redundant tasks
- Learn the Basics of Windows PowerShell 5.1
- Introduction to the Text Based Console and Intelligent Scripting Environment (ISE)
- Understand the PowerShell Pipeline
- Create and Delete Organizational Units with PowerShell
- Utilize the PowerShell Help System
- Understand Objects, Properties and Methods
- Create and Manage Active Directory Users with PowerShell
Hi! I’m Robert, and I’d like to welcome you to PowerShell for Beginners and Administrators.
Imagine! This course will forever improve how you manage your IT environment.
If you’ve ever sat down in front of your computer opened PowerShell typed a few commands, got confused or frustrated this course is for you.
You don’t have to feel intimidated, at a loss or confused by all the commands and syntax. Because I’m going to show you exactly:
How to find the right commands and examples using the awesome PowerShell built-in help system.
- I’ll give you enough examples that you’ll understand the command syntax.
- Take a look at the text based console, demonstrate TAB completion.
- Then we’ll setup the console and choose options, fonts, font size and colors
- Then we will work with the ISE, demonstrate Intellisense.
- Learn how to Expand the power of PowerShell by adding modules and cmdlets
- How to explore the pipeline, talk about the ways to get commands through the pipeline
- Create output to a file, printer, HTML or csv file
- Talk about providers
- Then we’ll take a look at objects & variables, Arrays and Hash tables
- We’ll Talk about script security
- How to Pull information using WMI and CIM
- Then we’ll write scripts, and one liners
- Finally, we’ll show you how to remote into 1 or a hundred servers or computers and much, much more.
Best of all I’m going to show you where to go when you need more help.
After I finish laying a solid foundation, roll up your sleeves because Instructor Paul will teach the second half of the course. In no time at all you will be creating scripts to automate your Windows server environment like you never thought possible.
No other PowerShell course offers this much!
We’ve taught thousands of students and many corporations use our courses to educate their employees.
I know you are anxious to get started, so let’s begin learning PowerShell.
Not sure if you’re already working on this–or maybe I’m simply doing it wrong–but whenever you open a course that you’ve already started, it always takes you to the first lesson. Once the first lesson starts, then you have to select “BACK TO COURSE” to find the lesson that you left off at. If this is something that you’re still working on figuring out, then you could at least make it so that clicking on the desired course from the Courses page will take you to that specific course’s menu instead of the first lesson.
Nope it definitely shouldn’t be working like this. Here are a couple of points:
It worked differently when I accessed today. From the Course menu it did take me to where I left off.
Thanks for getting back to us on your issue
Matthew Stricker
If you have any other issues with the platform let us know to follow up.
Ricardo
I have lost all my work that I have done on Power Shell when it was under the older looking format. How do I get my progress back? Can I still use the old viewing format? I will get use to the new one 🙂 But lost my progress 🙁
Hi
John K Mitchell ,
We are looking into it and syncing your progress.
Ricardo
Hi
John K Mitchell
We were looking at your progress and see just 25% completion. What was the progress you had on the older looking format?
Ricardo
Hi Paul,
I’m getting the 404 error, web page not found, for the following course videos:
PowerShell Variables Challenge & Solutions
PowerShell Loops – For Lops – While Loops – For Each Loop
PowerShell Conditional Statements
Any chance you guys can fix this please?
Hey Jason, thanks for reporting this! We have fixed this issue.. If you still get a 404 please log in / out. If it still isn’t working send us an email at support@serveracademy.com