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?
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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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Text Based Console Part 2 – An Overview
Let go ahead and fire up PowerShell, right click, click properties.
In the last lecture I demonstrated Command History and Quick edit mode. As you can see by default all these options have been checked, I won’t go over each option. If you want to know more checkout the documentation, I have descriptions for each option.
Font
- Font size – As you can see whenever I make changes in the Font size these changes are reflected in the preview windows.
So why is it important to choose the right Font size? PowerShell could display your information to the right or to the bottom of your desktop. If you choose the wrong font size PowerShell could display your information past the desktop and you may not see that information.
I chose a font size of 16, and I like Lucida Console font and I also choose bold fonts, which is better for presentation purposes. You can choose whatever font you like, it’s your choice.
Layout – Allows you to choose the screen buffer size, windows size and window position.
- Screen Buffer Size (changes memory allocated to desktop)
Width (should match Width on the Windows size
Height – Set to about 3000. Which is compatible with most monitors.
Colors - Here you can choose your text and background colors (We chose the default values)
- The easiest way to configure color is to first choose a category. Here you can see that we have selected “Screen Background”. You can select your color Values
Or you can come down here to the color bar, then choose whatever you like. You can see that this will be reflected in the preview windows.
Demonstrate Tab completion
- Type get-Pro, then press the Tab key. As you can see, TAB completion completed the command.
- Type get-Even, then press the TAB key.
PowerShell cycles through commands.
Pressing the Tab moves through the commands forward and shift-tab cycles the commands backwards.
- Let’s try another command.
Type get-ser, press the Tab key,
TAB completion fills in the word service.
Press Return – What is displayed is all the services that are running on this Windows 10 machine.
Now let’s highlight the service BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service)
Press Return, then click the up arrow. Click the space bar then click hyphen then press the TAB key, -name (name is a parameter) Now we want the name of the service which is BITS. Press the spacebar then type BI, then press the TAB key, press return.
As you can see the status of this service is stopped.
- How would you think we would start this service?
Type start-service, (space), type hyphen, then press the TAB key
-name (space) type BI, press the TAB key, now press return
Now type get-service (space) type hyphen press TAB key, press space bar, type BI, press the TAB key. Press enter. As you can see the status says that the BITS service is running.
That was just a quick demo of TAB completion and the Text based console.
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