Powershell For It Professionals

Practical course for Windows Sysadmins learn everything from basics to scripting PowerShell

What you'll learn

How to use Widows PowerShell Console

PowerShell Scripting

PowerShell pipeline

Rest API

WMI

File management

Terminal

Scripting

Requirements

Course has been designed for Windows Sysadmins who never coded before

Windows 10 or 11

Couple of optional lessons require access to a Windows Server to configure Active Directory and PowerShell Remoting

Description

Hi and welcome to the PowerShell for IT Professional course!The course is aimed at IT Professionals/system administrators that never coded before and managed Windows workloads.How does the course work?Every lesson is explained by me and you see exactly what I type on the screen.You're encouraged to follow along with me.In addition, lessons contain exercises so that you can practice each topic.What do I need for the course?You can accomplish most of the lessons with a single VM/Computer.I strongly recommend Windows Server 2016 or newer for your main machine.You can also use Windows 10 or newer, but you might not be able to accomplish all the lessonsThis could be a Virtual Machine or a physical machine used specifically for learningThere are two optional lessons which require a secondary machine: Setting up Active Directory with PowerShell - one machine here is configured as a Domain Controller, and the other joins the domain as a member.Remoting - we use one machine to control another oneI have never coded before, is the PowerShell course for me?I created the course for Windows Administrators who have never coded before!What am I going to learn in the PowerShell course?You will start from basics like working in the console, using help, and using the PowerShell pipeline. Gradually you will advance to more advanced topics like PowerShell remoting and scripting.

Overview

Section 1: Help

Lecture 1 Using Help

Lecture 2 Understanding Help

Lecture 3 Exercises

Section 2: Running Commands

Lecture 4 Running Commands

Lecture 5 Exercises

Section 3: Pipeline

Lecture 6 Pipeline

Lecture 7 Exercises

Section 4: Providers

Lecture 8 Providers

Lecture 9 Exercises

Section 5: Filtering output

Lecture 10 Filtering output

Lecture 11 Exercises

Section 6: Formatting Output

Lecture 12 Formatting Output

Lecture 13 Exercises

Section 7: Modules - Add new commands and Manage everything with PowerShell

Lecture 14 Modules

Lecture 15 Exercises

Section 8: Setting up Active Directory with PowerShell

Lecture 16 Setting up Active Directory

Lecture 17 Exercises

Section 9: PowerShell remoting

Lecture 18 Remoting

Lecture 19 Exercises

Section 10: Variables

Lecture 20 Variables

Lecture 21 Exercises

Section 11: WMI

Lecture 22 WMI

Lecture 23 Exercises

Section 12: Is PowerShell Secure?

Lecture 24 Is PowerShell Secure?

Section 13: Scripting

Lecture 25 Getting ready to write your first script - Part 1

Lecture 26 Reporting Tool - Part 2

Lecture 27 Enhancing Reporting Tool - Part 3

Lecture 28 Making the script more PowerShell-like - Part 4

Lecture 29 Exercises

Section 14: Working with text

Lecture 30 Working with Text

Section 15: Web requests and Rest API

Lecture 31 Web requests and REST API

Section 16: Next steps with PowerShell

Lecture 32 Next steps with PowerShell

Section 17: Additional lessons

Lecture 33 Debugging PowerShell Scripts with VS Code

Windows Sysadmins who never coded before.,IT Professionals,Helpdesk operators,Security analysts