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Putting PowerShell to Work
This course will teach you how to get the most from running commands interactively at a PowerShell prompt.
What you'll learn
PowerShell is different. It is a management engine that you can interface with directly at a console prompt. Once you know a few key commands, you can discover what you need to know to put PowerShell to work. In this course, Putting PowerShell to Work, you’ll learn how to get the most from your work at a PowerShell prompt. First, you’ll explore how to run discover and run native PowerShell commands. Next, you’ll discover how PowerShell uses objects in the pipeline. Finally, you’ll learn how to filter with PowerShell so that you only get the results you need. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the PowerShell skills and knowledge to run effective PowerShell commands in a pipelined expression.
Table of contents
- Version Check | 15s
- Course Preparation | 1m 45s
- Understanding PowerShell Commands | 4m 57s
- Running PowerShell Commands | 4m 35s
- PowerShell History | 1m 22s
- Demo: Discovering PowerShell Commands | 3m 9s
- Demo: Working with Aliases | 2m 19s
- Demo: Running PowerShell Commands | 7m 26s
- Demo: Using Command History | 2m 9s
- Demo: Using PSReadline | 5m 15s
- Understanding the PowerShell Host | 7m 37s
About the author
Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell and an IT veteran with many years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency.
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