Intro to PowerShell Syllabus

Introduction

• What is PowerShell?
• Setting up PowerShell
  • PowerShell on Windows
  • PowerShell on supported *nix environments
• The Anatomy of a PowerShell Command One-Liner
• Cmdlets
• Key Cmdlet: Get-Help
• Key Cmdlet: Get-Command
• The PowerShell Pipeline
• Key Cmdlet: Get-Member
• Aliases
• Outputting
• File Extensions
• PowerShell Profiles

Programmatic PowerShell

• Overview
  • IDEs
• Variables
  • Casting
  • Variable operations
• Logic and Loops
  • Conditionals
    • If/Else/Elseif
    • Switch Case
  • Loops
    • While
    • Do-While
    • For loop
    • ForEach loop
    • ForEach-Object
• PowerShell Structures
  • Arrays
  • HashTables
  • Custom PSObjects
• Functions
  • Arguments
  • Turning a Function into a Cmdlet
  • Advanced Function Features
  • Error Handing
• Classes
• String Gimmicks
  • String Operations
  • String Comparison
  • Regular Expressions

Administration

• Navigating the Filesystem
  • Querying/Managing Files and Directories
• User Administration
  • Managing Users and groups locally
  • Managing Users and groups in a domain context
• Process Administration
  • Querying/Managing Processes
• Registry Operations with Powershell
• Interfacing with .NET
• PowerShell Providers
• PSDrives
• PSSessions
  • Managing PSSessions
• Managing Event logs
• Working with Task Scheduler
• Closing