PowerShell Training: Beginning PowerShell 2

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Course Number: 690
Duration: 2 days
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PowerShell Training Overview

Accelebrate's Beginning PowerShell training course teaches attendees to use Microsoft's PowerShell scripting environment for Windows and server administration. This course guides students through the essentials of what PowerShell is, how it works, and how to use it to make everyday administrative tasks faster, easier, and more consistent.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/microsoft.htm.

PowerShell Training Prerequisites

All attendees should have 1-2 years (or more) of Windows operating system administration experience. Prior familiarity with Active Directory is helpful but not required.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This PowerShell training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

PowerShell Training Materials

All attendees receive comprehensive courseware and a related textbook.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

This PowerShell training course requires

Windows XP SP3 or later with at least 1GB RAM; or Windows Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, or later with at least 2GB RAM and the latest service packs installed
Windows PowerShell 2.0, available from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929. On this page, scroll about 55% of the way down until you get to the subhead that says "Windows Management Framework Core (WinRM 2.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0)" Please install the version for your OS and bitness (32-bit versus 64-bit)
CD-ROM drive (the course lab files come on CD-ROM)
Either or both of two editors:

PowerGUI (a free tool) http://www.powergui.org/downloads.jspa
PrimalScript 45-day trial from http://www.primaltools.com/products/info.asp?p=PrimalScript

PowerShell Training Objectives

After attending this course, students will:

Learn the PowerShell architecture and how to use PowerShell to control your Windows systems
Master the PowerShell pipeline for grouping, sorting, and filtering
Use Windows Management Instrumentation
Learn to modularize PowerShell with scripts
Work with PowerShell Sessions and Background Jobs

PowerShell Training Outline

Windows PowerShell Overview

Running Commands and Using the Pipeline

Commands in Detail and Using Online Help

Importing and Exporting Data

Core Cmdlets: Sorting, Grouping, Comparing, and More

Comparison Operators and Pipeline Filtering

Formatting and OutputUnderstanding and Using Windows Management Instrumentation

Administering Active Directory (in 2003, 2008, and 2008R2+)

Building Graphical Scripts using Windows Forms

Understanding PowerShell Sessions and Configuring WinRM

Working with Background Jobs

Conclusion