Administration and Automation with Windows PowerShell
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Getting Started with Windows PowerShell • 42min
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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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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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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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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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Course Conclusion • 1min
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- Question number five
Using the Clear-history command.
The question is from the console pane, type the command Get-history. Let's go ahead and do that. Ok now press return. And this shows all the commands that we've typed into the console. So, what we want to do is we want to use the clear-history command and only delete the first command and the last command. Ok, let's get a little help with Clear-History get-help Clear-history -showwindow. So, we want to delete the first and the last command. Ok so, we don't want to delete all the commands yet, the command deletes all commands from the session. History example to delete commands by using history IDs. Ok, let's go ahead and scroll up. Here's our history IDs, so, that sounds like that's what we want to do. Let's go ahead and try it. So, go ahead and type Clear-History space -ID. And we want 1 and a comma space, and our last command is, in this case, is 45. Go ahead and put in 45 and now hit return. Type get-history again. And you can see that number 1 and number 45 are gone. Ok, so that worked. Now the second part of the question says now clear all the commands.
Ok, so we want to just type in clear-history and press return. Now go ahead and type get-history and see what's there and as you can see that cleared all the commands from our history.
- Now question number 6.
We're going to be using get-Alias.
The question is using this command, how can you figure out the alias of get-service? Ok, so, we want to do is get some help on get-alias type get-help ok, now type get-alias type -showwindow and return. Now using this command how can you figure out the alias for get-service. So, let's look down through here. Example 1 get all of the aliases, no we don't want that get aliases by name. Ok, let's try that one, because we want the alias for get-service so, we could use a wildcard here so, let's try get-alias -name G asterisk. Type get-alias and -name and there it is there and g, for get-service and asterisk now press return and here we go. Great, let's go ahead and close this there is the alias GSV for get-service.
- Question number 7
How would you start and stop the BITS service and see the result. You won't find the answer in the examples. So how would you find the command? Let's use some wildcards. We know that to get-command would display every cmdlet on the computer and we also, know that BITS is a service that runs on the computer.
Let's go ahead and type get-command, and we'll use a wildcard, asterisk we know we're going to use service. Look at all the commands that have the word service in it. And let's take a look id there anything here that we want.
The question was we want to start and stop the BITS service. Start-service, stop-service. All right so, let's go ahead and try that first let's go ahead and type get-service. Take a look at BITS, and we've seen this before and there's BITS, Background intelligent transfer service, but we can see that it's currently stopped. So, go ahead and type start-service We want to type BITS. Hit return it looks like it did something but nothing was displayed.
Ok so, here's one thing I haven't we haven't talked about yet. That is the parameter -passthru. The -passthru parameter let you request output from cmdlet's that return no output by default. Let's go ahead and try that again, and this time we'll type -passthru. Return and press return again. And there is our output. And now we can see the status of BITS is now running. Ok so, let's go ahead and stop that service this time. Ok, and we want to go back and type stop this time and press return. Ok. And now you can see the status of BITS is stopped.
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