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
Text | 2 min
PowerShell Arrays and Variables • 28min
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PowerShell Variables
Video | 9 min
PowerShell Arrays
Video | 12 min
PowerShell Variables Challenge
Video | 2 min
PowerShell Variables Solution
Video | 5 min
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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Video | 14 min
Uninstalling Windows Features with DSC
Video | 9 min
Lab: Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Lab | 60 min
Course Conclusion • 1min
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- What is PowerShell? Look at the word POWER-SHELL. You may ask what is a shell?
A shell is a user interface that gives you access to the operating system.
- What can I use PowerShell for? PowerShell allows you to write scripts and use commands to automate repetitive tasks. For example:
You could check the security logs on one or a number of server’s, save that log file to a server as an HTML file and the Admins that work for you could check the log file every morning anywhere in the world to verify that your servers are not being attacked by hackers.
You can work with Active Directory, registry, WMI, backup your server, run tasks in the background while you perform other tasks.
3. PowerShell is built into many products. Microsoft IT products, VMware, Citrix.
4. Do you have a Linux, Unix or strictly Windows client background? You may ask, what commands from those O/S will PowerShell recognize?
PowerShell recognizes many windows native commands. Let’s check it out.
Open the ISE version of Powershell in Administrator mode
Type Explorer – Yep that works
Type Ipconfig /all
CHKDSK
CLS
Dir
MKDIR C:\ps2
Cmdlets are PowerShell specific commands. So how do we get a list of CMDlets?
Type get-command
Here we see a list of aliases -we’ll get to those later
And Functions – Functions are written in PowerShell’s own scripting language. You can create your own Functions in PowerShell.
CMDlets are native PowerShell commands that are written in a .net language
BTW you can get-help on any of these aliases, functions or cmdlets.
Let’s grab a command and get some help
And there’s your help for the Get-variable cmdlet
What about UNIX or Linux commands
Type LS – Displays the contents of a specified location.
PWD – Returns the current working directory name.
MAN - Gives help on the get-service command.
CAT -path c:\sec.txt
and there is our security log that we saved from a previous lecture
Q: Is there a command that I can type to give me a list of aliases which is another name for a command that points to the real command that PowerShell recognizes?
A: get-alias
Checkout the list of aliases, I am sure you will see some that you recognize. Take a little time to experiment with familiar commands.
Q: Why would Microsoft developers include commands from these other operating systems.
A: So, people from the Unix/Linux world would be able to sit down open up PowerShell and find commands that they are familiar with. Granted there are differences between the various tools, but I think this encourages others to dig in and hopefully discover the power of PowerShell.
- In this course we will concentrate mainly on using PowerShell with Windows 10 and Windows server 2016.
- You may say, well Robert you really haven’t convinced me yet - why would I want to go to the trouble to learn PowerShell?
Let me ask you this:
If you were the hiring manager in charge of hiring all your system admins, who would you rather have on your team. A person that manually performs his everyday tasks using the basic tools. Or an Admin that takes seconds to perform the same tasks in an automated fashion. The answer is obvious. So welcome to PowerShell this is the future for administrators.
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