Putting Windows PowerShell to Work
This course will teach you how to get the most from running commands interactively at a Windows PowerShell prompt.
What you'll learn
IT pros need to know how to run commands and manage command history to make them more efficient. In this course, Putting Windows PowerShell to Work, you’ll learn how to get the most from your work at a Windows PowerShell prompt. First, you’ll explore how to discover and run native Windows PowerShell commands. Next, you’ll discover how PowerShell uses objects in the pipeline. Finally, you’ll learn how to filter with Windows PowerShell so that you only get the results you need. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the Windows PowerShell skills and knowledge to create effective commands and pipelined expressions.
Table of contents
- Course Preparation 2m
- Understanding PowerShell Commands 4m
- Running PowerShell Commands 5m
- Windows PowerShell History 1m
- Demonstration: Discovering Windows PowerShell Commands 4m
- Demonstration: Working with Aliases 3m
- Demonstration: Running Windows PowerShell Commands 8m
- Demonstration: Using Command History 5m
- Demonstration: Using PSReadline 8m
- Windows PowerShell Security 3m
- Demonstration: Windows PowerShell Security 8m
- Understanding the Windows PowerShell Host 2m
- Demonstration: The Windows PowerShell Host 5m
- Demonstration: Stream Redirection 9m
- The Power of the Pipeline 3m
- Sorting and Grouping Objects 2m
- Selecting and Measuring Objects 2m
- Demonstration: Group-Object 3m
- Demonstration: Sort-Object 6m
- Demonstration: Select-Object 4m
- Demonstration: Measure-Object 3m
- Working with Individual Objects 3m
- Demonstration: ForEach-Object Concepts 3m
- Demonstration: ForEach-Object in Practice 10m
- Demonstration: Pulling It All Together 3m
- PowerShell Output Formatting 3m
- PowerShell Output Formatting Details 3m
- Format Cmdlets 4m
- Demonstration: Format-Table 9m
- Demonstration: Format-Table Custom Properties 4m
- Demonstration: Format-List 4m
- Demonstration: Format-List Custom Properties 2m
- Demonstration: Format-Wide 3m
- Demonstration: Alternate Format Views 5m
- Demonstration: Format Right 2m
- Other Formatting and Output Options 3m
- Demonstration: Out-File 2m
- Demonstration: Out-Printer 4m
- Demonstration: Out-String 1m
- Demonstration: Out-Gridview 5m
About the author
Jeffery Hicks is a veteran IT Pro with 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher, and consultant. He has been creating Pluralsight content for over 10 years. Jeff has written for numerous online sites and print publications, and speaks frequently at technology confer... more