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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Using PS Drive
In this lecture we will learn how to use PSDrive. The PSDrive cmdlet allows you to view, create and remove PowerShell drives. A PSDrive is considered a data store location that can represent the file system, a registry hive and network share, among other things as well.
If you want to follow along, download the lesson that came with this lecture. You'll find all the commands that we're going to use in the lesson.
- Go ahead and open PowerShell as the current user. We will use the cmdlet New-PSDrive to create a temporary or persistent drive that is mapped to or associated with a location in a data store.
To see the syntax of PSDrive type Get-Help New-PSdrive, press return.
- We will be using the command New-PS Drive and the parameters Name, PSProvider and Root.
- In our example, daily on a machine, you need to check a particular registry key. You have to open the registry editor, and drill down to that specific registry hive. In this case HKLM, and find the registry key.
I'm going to show you how to use New-PS drive to map that registry location to a name. And make it assessable like any file system drive.
- Now go ahead and copy and paste the first command into PowerShell.
Command #1
New-PSDrive -Name PSReg -PSProvider Registry -Root HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\3\
Now what are the following parameters used for? -Name specifies a name for the new drive -PSProvider this shows that the drive is associated with the registry. -Root specifies the data store location to which a PowerShell drive is mapped. And HKLM is the target registry hive. Now press return.
To access the newly created PSDrive Type cd space psreg: don't forget the colon just after the psreg: name, otherwise you will get an error. And press return.
Now type dir, and press return. And there is our registry entries.
- Additional PSDrive cmdlets. Get-PSDrive. This command that gets the drive in the current session. New-PSDrive creates a PowerShell drive that's mapped to a location in a data store, such as a network drive, a directory on the local computer, or a registry key.
Remove-PSDrive. This cmdlet deletes our PowerShell drives that were created by using the New-PSDrive cmdlet.
Now we'll create a PSDrive and map it to a local folder. Now will copy and paste the second command into PowerShell.
Command #2
New-PSDrive -Name "Win" -PSProvider "FileSystem" -Root “C:\windows\media”
Now for parameters, -Name specifies the name for the new drive. In this case it will be win. The -PSprovider parameter, it'll be file system and the -root will be the folder C:\ windows\ media. Now go ahead and press return.
To access your new PSDrive, type CD space win: then type dir.
- One important point to note here is that all your PSdrives are non-persistent and that means they'll disappear as soon as your session is closed.
To make your PSDrive persistent and last even if your session is closed, you can map the PSDrive to appear in Windows Explorer using the switch -persist.
- Now copy and paste the third command into PowerShell.
Command #3
New-PSDrive -Name 'L' -PSProvider FileSystem -Root '\\127.0.0.1\C$\Recycler -persist
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