pwshop (The Course)
Course Info
This course includes 1 attempt.
pwshop is a PowerShell workshop aimed at complete beginners to the language. It is designed to be self-paced and self-study with an optional instructor or facilitator. Over the course of this workshop you will learn:
- How PowerShell commands are structured and how to use them
- How to discover commands and find documentation for using them
- How to interact with objects
- How to use the pipeline
- How to filter objects
- How to use variables and operators
- How to use PowerShell's providers to manage files, certificates, and registry keys
- How to remotely manage systems with PowerShell
- How to find commands and modules on the PowerShell Gallery and pull them down for use
- How to write scripts using conditionals, loops, and multiple output streams, and how to handle errors.
This course will be continually updated and revised to reflect PowerShell fundamentals over time.
Course Material
- Introduction
- Setup
- Prerequisites:
- Steps
- Controlling the Environment
- Commands & Discoverability
- Anatomy of a Command
- Exercise 01: Get-Verb
- Get-Command
- Exercise 02: Using Parameters
- Get-Help
- Exercise 03: Getting Help
- Objects, Properties, & Methods
- Properties
- Exercise 04: Service Properties
- Methods
- Exercise 05: File Methods
- Output Views
- Exercise 06: Formats and Views
- The Pipeline
- Exercise 07: Pipeline Chaining
- Filtering & Where-Object
- Comparison Operators
- Exercise 08: Equality Operators
- Exercise 09: Matching Operators
- Exercise 10: Containment Operators
- Where-Object and FilterScript
- Exercise 11: FilterScript
- Variables & Operators
- Operators
- Exercise 12: Arithmetic Operators
- Assignment Operators
- Unary Operators
- PowerShell Providers
- Exercise 13: Files and Folders
- Exercise 14: Registry Keys
- Exercise 15: Certificates
- Other Providers
- Remoting
- Interactive Remoting
- Invoke-Command
- Persistent Sessions
- Multiple Sessions
- Exercise 16: Running Remote Commands
- Modules & the PSGallery
- Exercise 17: Modules
- Note on Getting Started With the PowerShell Gallery
- Writing Scripts
- Conditionals: If, ElseIf, & Else
- Conditionals: Switches
- Exercise 18: Conditionals
- Loops: ForEach
- Loops: For
- Loops: While
- Loops: Do-While, Do-Until
- Exercise 19: Loops
- Output Streams
- Error Handling
- Exercise 20: Error Handling
- What’s Next?
- Postscript:
Instructors
Mikey Lombardi spends his working hours documenting, mentoring, and working to continuously improve processes and tooling.
When not busy with day job or technical community commitments, Mikey writes and works in game design, primarily focused on narrative wargames and adventures. You can find his work here on LeanPub and wherever quality games are sold.
Chris is a voice-over artist and telecommunications analyst from North Carolina, with a rapidly-growing interest in technological accessibility.
Community
This course has a private forum for learners who are taking this course.
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