This module will introduce you to Windows PowerShell and provide an overview of the product’s functionality. The module shows you how to open and configure the shell for use and how to run commands within the shell. The module also introduces the built-in Help system in Windows PowerShell.
Lessons
Lab : Configuring Windows PowerShell
Lab : Finding and running basic commands
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module introduces you to the cmdlets commonly used for administration. While you can search for cmdlets each time you need to accomplish a task, it is more efficient to have at least a basic understanding of the cmdlets available for system administration.
Lessons
Lab : Windows Administration
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module introduces the pipeline feature of Windows PowerShell. Although the pipeline feature is included in several command-line shells such as the command prompt in the Windows operating system, the pipeline feature in Windows PowerShell provides more complex, more flexible, and more capable functionalities compared to other shells. This module provides you with the skills and knowledge that will help you use the shell more effectively and efficiently
Lessons
Lab: Using the pipeline
Lab: Filtering objects
Lab: Enumerating objects
Lab: Sending output to a file
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module shows you how Windows PowerShell passes objects from one
command to another in the pipeline. The shell provides two techniques that you
can use. Knowing how these techniques work, and which one will be used in a
given scenario, lets you construct more useful and complex command lines.
Lab: Working with pipeline parameter binding
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module introduces the PSProviders and PSDrives adapters. A PSProvider is basically a Windows PowerShell adapter that makes some form of storage resemble a disk drive. A PSDrive is an actual connection to a form of storage. You can use these two adapters to work with various forms of storage by using the same commands and techniques that you use to manage the file system
Lessons
Lab: Using PSProviders and PSDrives
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Use PSProviders.
This module introduces you to two parallel technologies: Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Common Information Model (CIM). Both these
technologies provide local and remote access to a repository of management
information including access to robust information available from the operating
system, computer hardware, and installed software.
Lessons
Lab: Working with WMI and CIM
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module provides you the skills and knowledge required to use
variables, arrays, and hash tables in Windows PowerShell.
Lab: Working with variables
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module shows you how to package a Windows PowerShell command in a
script. Scripts allow you to perform repetitive tasks and more complex tasks
than cannot be accomplished in a single command.
Lab: Basic scripting
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module introduces you to more advanced techniques that you can use
in scripts. These techniques includes gathering user input, reading input from
files, documenting scripts with help information and error handling.
Lab: Accepting data from users
Lab: Implementing functions and modules
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module introduces you to the Windows PowerShell remoting technology that enables you to connect to one or more remote computers and instruct them to run commands on your behalf.
Lessons
Lab: Using basic remoting
Lab: Using PSSessions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module provides information about the job features of Windows
PowerShell. Jobs are an extension point in Windows PowerShell, and there are
many different kinds of jobs. Each kind of job can work slightly differently,
and has different capabilities.
Lab: Using background jobs and scheduled jobs
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module covers several advanced Windows PowerShell techniques and
features. Many of these techniques and features extend functionality that you
have learned about in previous modules. Some of these techniques are new and
provide additional capabilities.
Lessons
Lab: Practicing advanced techniques
Lab: Practicing script development (optional)
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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