Mastering Windows PowerShell

Course ILT-PSH-MST • 5 days

Description
Learn to use Microsoft’s new environment for Windows and server administration: Windows PowerShell! This course assumes no prior experience, and guides you through the essentials of what PowerShell is, how it works, why you can’t afford to live without it, and—most importantly—how to use it to make everyday administrative tasks faster, easier, and more consistent. This course also covers intermediate topics such as error handling, debugging, regular expressions, advanced modularization techniques, advanced object manipulation, and much more. You’ll be a more refined and efficient administrator by leveraging more of PowerShell’s flexible and powerful capabilities. Finally, dig deep into PowerShell’s advanced capabilities, and begin extending and customizing the shell in ways you never thought possible. Learn to work with the data stored in databases, create graphical dialog boxes, define custom formatting views and type extensions, work with XML-based data, and much more. Includes a complete half-day, hands-on practical where you’ll use PowerShell to create a complex administrative utility from scratch.

Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should have 1-2 years (or more) of Windows operating system administration, and should be familiar with Active Directory and other server administrative tasks.

Course Outline

Day 1

Architecture and Overview
Navigating Your System
Key Cmdlets for Windows Administration
The PowerShell Pipeline
Objects in the Pipeline: Grouping, Sorting, and More
Security Features
WMI Overview and Use

Day 2

Basic Pipeline Filtering & Comparison Operators
AD Overview and Use
More Key Cmdlets
Scripting Overview
Objects, Variables, Arrays, Escapes
Working with Scope in PowerShell
Advanced Operators
Scripting Constructs: PowerShell’s Scripting Language
Modularization: Creating PowerShell Scripts, Scriptblocks, and Functions

Day 3

Advanced Filtering and Cmdlet Techniques
Variables and Literals are Objects; Exploring Data Types
Error Trapping and Handling
Debugging Techniques
Regular Expressions
Advanced Modularization – Filtering Functions and Custom Objects
Saving and Exporting Objects

Day 4

Working with Databases
Custom Format Views
Custom Type Extensions
Introduction to Windows Forms
Working with Windows Forms

Day 5

Working with XML Data
Retrieving data from the Web
Working with Runspaces
Leveraging the .NET Framework in PowerShell
Advanced PowerShell Practical

Student kits include the full book, Windows PowerShell™: TFM™ by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks!

STUDENT KIT contents

• Course book including slides, lab guide, and lab solutions
• Course disc including samples, resources, links, and supplemental self-paced training
• Full copy of Windows PowerShell: TFM book by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks

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