PowerShell Scripting & Automation: The Complete Hands-On

Discovering Windows Powershell: Console Orientation

Differences Between Windows PowerShell Versions

Windows Powershell vs Powershell 7

Download PowerShell 7 Package For Your Platforms

Installing PowerShell 7 On Windows

Installing PowerShell 7 On Linux & MacOS

Customizing PowerShell for Your comfort

Discovering Windows Powershell Integrated Script Environment

Windows Powershell Commands Formulation

Pssnapin And Modules Commands

Discovering The Different Pssnapin Commands

Discovering The Different Modules Commands

Adds Modules To The Current Session: Import-Module

Find The Right Command To Accomplish A Task

Powershell Module Path Environment Variable

Aliases: Linux Commands Into Powershell

Outline Of Finding and Discovering Commands

Introduction to Powershell Help

Updating Your Most Important Resource: Help

Exploring The Help Of Any Command

Understanding Cmdlet Syntax And Symbols

Getting Some Real Syntax Examples Of The Commands

Positions, Required And No-Required Parameters

Running The First Command With Different Parameters By Using The Help

Getting The Right Syntax By Using Integrated Script Environment

Introduction to Powershell Commands: Applied Section

Finding And Running The Command Of Getting Process

Understanding the String, the Int32 and Using A Shortcut

Customizing The Error Message

Working With The Multi Values

Finding And Running Commands About Aliases

Running Some External Commands

Introduction To Providers And Drives

Understanding Providers And Drives

Working With Providers: Get-Itemproperty

Working With Providers: Set-Itemproperty

Working With The File System Provider: Registry Provider

Before Starting This Section

Introduction To Variables Strings

Different Kinds Of Variables

Discovering Windows PowerShell Arrays

Discovering PowerShell Hash Tables (Associative Arrays)

Introduction To Regular Expression Basics

Understanding The Regular Expression Basics

Identify String Patterns: The Matches

Analysing And Creating A Full Pattern

Example of Using This Regular Expression (Pattern Expression)

Making Your Pattern Expression Confidential

Introduction To Powershell Transaction

Discover The Cmdlets Of The Transaction

Start A New Transaction

Get Information About The Active Transaction

Rollback Preference Of The Transaction

Commit The Transaction

Independent Transaction

Conclusion Of The Transaction

Introduction To The Environmental Variable Provider - Env:

How To Read And Set Environmental Variables

Setting Variables Of Other PSDrives

Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable Method

Introduction To The Powershell Variable Provider - Variable:

Using Cmdlets Of The Powershell Variable

Using The Dollar Sign With Powershell Variable

Casting Values In Powershell

Introduction To Parameter Validation

Easy Validating Parameter Input: Validateset and Validatescript

Parsing, Variable Expansion, and Quoting

(compulsory arguments) order to process components

The PowerShell Variable Scope

The Powershell Scope Hierarchy

Introduction To Logical Operators

PowerShell Comparison Operators

String Literal Comparison

PowerShell -Like Comparator

Like vs. Match: Battle of the Powershell operators

PowerShell Join Operator

PowerShell Split Operator

Split Syntax: Delimiter And Max-Substrings

Split Operator Options

Split By ScriptBlock

The Boolean Type Operators

Converts The Input To The Format

Range And Dot Sourcing Operators

Real Example Using All Operators 1

Real Example Using All Operators 2

Formats Strings by Using The Format Operator

All About Operators supported by PowerShell

Troubleshooting a Script with Variables, Operators, and Environment Settings in PowerShell

Conclusion And Your First Mission

Bonus Lecture