PowerShell Training: Beginning PowerShell 2

PowerShell Training Objectives

After attending this course, students will:

• Understand the use of objects in PowerShell
• Understand the use of built-in PowerShell cmdlets
• Use PowerShell to get help
• Combine Cmdlets Using the Pipeline
• Modularize tasks with custom functions and scripts
• Create scripts and functions with decision making logic and looping
• Use parameters to control cmdlets, scripts and functions
• Extend PowerShell with WMI objects
• Execute PowerShell on remote computers

PowerShell Training Outline

• Introduction
• PowerShell Basics
• Confirm version
• Initializing a PowerShell Environment
• Working with Profiles
• Passing Parameters to PowerShell
• Understanding the PowerShell Cmdlet
• PowerShell Architecture and Object Nature
• Working with PowerShell Variables
• Using Get-Help and Get-Member to Explore Objects
• Documenting PowerShell Scripts with Comments
• Working with PowerShell Security
• Set-ExecutionPolicy
• -Confirm and -WhatIf parameters
• Working with PowerShell Modules and PSSnapins
• Redirecting Output to Files
• Understanding Object Scope
• Getting Started with Scripts
• Organizing Information
• Sorting
• Grouping
• Filtering
• Parameters vs. cmdlets
• Making Decisions in PowerShell Scripts
• Using if
• Using Switch
• Looping through Collections
• Using While Loops
• Using For Loops
• Using ForEach Loops
• Formatting PowerShell Output
• Using Tables
• Using Lists
• Understanding Views
• Responding to Errors and Warnings
• Working with PowerShell Sessions and Background Jobs
• Creating Reusable Functions
• Accepting Pipeline Input
• Processing the Pipeline in Functions
• Creating Parameterized Functions and Scripts
• Using WMI Objects in PowerShell
• Choosing WMI vs.PowerShell Cmdlets
• Working with Remote Computers
• Credentials
• Conclusion