Administration and Automation with Windows PowerShell
Course Introduction • 5min
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Getting Started with Windows PowerShell • 42min
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The Basics of PowerShell
Video | 7 min
Installing and Updating PowerShell
Video | 7 min
The Text Based Console Part 1- An Overview
Video | 7 min
Text Based Console Part 2 - An Overview
Video | 5 min
The ISE (Intelligent Scripting Environment) Part 1
Video | 5 min
The ISE (Intelligent Scripting Environment) Part 2
Video | 5 min
Use the OGV Command to Easily View console data!
Video | 6 min
Getting Help and Finding Commands • 39min
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Getting Help and Finding Commands Part 1
Video | 7 min
Getting Help and Finding Commands Part 2
Video | 3 min
Getting Help and Finding Commands Part 3
Video | 4 min
Help System LAB Questions
Video | 6 min
Help System Lab Answers 1-4
Video | 9 min
Help System Lab Answers 5-9
Video | 10 min
PowerShell Command Syntax • 33min
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Command Syntax Part 1
Video | 8 min
Command Syntax Part 2
Video | 8 min
Command Syntax Part 3
Video | 5 min
Command Syntax Lab Questions
Video | 4 min
Command Syntax Lab Answers
Video | 8 min
PowerShell Objects and Properties • 35min
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Objects, Properties and Methods Part 1
Video | 3 min
Objects, Properties and Methods Part 2
Video | 8 min
Objects, Properties and Methods Part 3
Video | 7 min
Questions 1-9 for Objects, Properties and Methods
Video | 2 min
Answers to Questions 1-7 O-P-M
Video | 11 min
Answers to Questions 8,9 O-P-M
Video | 4 min
The PowerShell Pipeline • 24min
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PowerShell Providers • 30min
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What are PowerShell Providers
Video | 3 min
Using PS Drive
Video | 6 min
PowerShell Provider CMDlets -1
Video | 12 min
PowerShell Providers CMDlets -2
Video | 7 min
Student Assignments
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PowerShell Arrays and Variables • 28min
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PowerShell Variables
Video | 9 min
PowerShell Arrays
Video | 12 min
PowerShell Variables Challenge
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PowerShell Variables Solution
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PowerShell Loops • 19min
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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?
Video | 2 min
Downloading and Installing VirtualBox
Video | 2 min
Downloading Windows Server 2019
Video | 3 min
Creating Your Virtual Network
Video | 2 min
Creating Your Virtual Machines
Video | 7 min
Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions
Video | 2 min
Installing Windows Server
Video | 8 min
Installing the Active Directory Domain Services Role
Video | 10 min
Basic Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell • 2hr 27min
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Configuring PowerShell Execution Policy with Group Policy
Video | 13 min
Installing Windows Server Roles and Features with Powershell
Video | 6 min
Running Powershell Scripts as Scheduled Tasks
Video | 8 min
Creating Organizational Units with Powershell
Video | 11 min
Creating and Managing Active Directory User Accounts with PowerShell
Video | 19 min
Move all AD Users in a Group to a Specific Organizational Unit
Video | 7 min
Generate a list of AD Users and their OU
Video | 5 min
PowerShell Splatting
Video | 5 min
Bulk Install Windows MSU Files Automatically with PowerShell
Video | 13 min
Lab: Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell
Lab | 60 min
Send Emails with PowerShell • 22min
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Send Emails from Gmail with PowerShell
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Create Password Expiration Notification Script
Video | 13 min
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Basics • 1hr 48min
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DSC Overview
Video | 9 min
Enabling PSRemoting with Group Policy
Video | 9 min
The DSC Resource Kit
Video | 7 min
Configuring The Local Config Manager for DSC Push
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Uninstalling Windows Features with DSC
Video | 9 min
Lab: Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Lab | 60 min
Course Conclusion • 1min
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- One of the GREATEST BENEFITS for those that are brand new to PowerShell is the help system. The Help System is where you’ll get all your answers. Why count on google, when you have something better right at your fingertips.
You might ask, why should I spend time learning about the help system?
- If you’re serious about learning PowerShell, you’ll need to be serious about spending time mastering the help system. We gonna be spending a lot of time using the help system, why? Because it’s the secret to becoming a PowerShell Expert.
- Commands vs. cmdlets vs. Functions. PowerShell has many types of commands. We ’ll refer to all these as commands. We’ll define what a cmdlet is and talk about functions later.
- CMDlets- Are unique to PowerShell. These commands allow you to get a specific task done. Cmdlet’s take the form of a VERB-NOUN. As you know a verb denotes an action. For example, Get, Add, Export, and Import.
Let’s take the command Get-Service, get is the verb and service is the noun.
Or the command Export-Csv – Export is the verb, and CSV is the noun.
The Verb-Noun format gives these commands some consistency, in other words, you’ll always know that any cmdlet will start with a verb and end with a noun.
There are Four different ways to examine the help system – examples, detailed, full and online. Lets go ahead and checkout all four. We’ll use get-help get-service as our command.
- OK go ahead and type get-help and press return, space. Get-service, okay and press return. Now press the spacebar once, press the hyphen key and type examples, ex. Then press return. OK press return again. And let's go ahead and scroll up. And as you can see we have example one, okay and scroll the whole way down. And here we have example 11. So as you can see we have 11 examples for get-service. And this really makes learning Power-Shell much easier.
·Okay now switch over to the other to my other screen. And type the same command and get-help, space get-service OK. Now this time press hyphen and type detailed. Ok, now press return now press return again. Now what you can see is again we have all 11 examples. But let's go ahead and scroll up and as you can see we have some different some different items.
- One is syntax and then we have description, and then we have parameters. Let's take a look at syntax. Basically, syntax helps us construct a command correctly. To construct a command, you follow the syntax from left to right. Okay, now description gives you a good description of the get-service cmdlet. Now let's take a look at parameters. Okay, the parameters of a command are options that determine what the command can do. Notice that parameters always start with a hyphen.
- OK, allright now let's go ahead and clear that screen. Now this time we'll type get-help, space get-service and this time type -full. All right let's take a look at that right now.
Again we have all the examples, and let's move up and see what we have that's different. Okay now here we have the name synopsis, syntax, description, and the parameters again. Notice these five items, they weren't included in the detailed help, four of these items we'll discuss in another lecture.
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