New Horizons Computer Learning Center
410-597-9722

Windows PowerShell - Automate Server Administration

Course Length: 3 Days

Overview:
This hands-on session will introduce administrators to PowerShell, the new Windows command-line shell. PowerShell offers both a command-line interface as well as a scripting environment.

Prerequisites:
Familiarity with Windows operating systems. Scripting experience is preferred.

Course Content

Lesson 1: PowerShell Overview

• Installation & Requirements
• The PowerShell Command Line
• CLI (Command Line Interface) Navigation
• Intro to Scripts, Cmdlets and Snapins
• Navigating in PowerShell
• Drives
• Listing Directories
• Aliases
• Parameters
• Help

Lesson 2: Scripts

• Saving & Running
• Security settings & Certificates
• PowerShell Profiles
• Advanced Example - Where We're Headed

Lesson 3: PowerShell Cmdlets & Snap-Ins

• Available CmdLets
• Help
• Pipelines
• Objects, Properties and Methods
• Sorting objects

Lesson 4: Syntax, Special Characters and Operators

• Quotes
• Redirecting Output
• Command Continuation
• Special Characters
• Operator Precedence
• Operators Galore

Lesson 5: Variables, Variable Scopes

• Data Types
• Environment Variables
• Get-Variable
• Set-Variable
• New-Variable
• Clear-Variable
• Remove-Variable
• Arrays

Lesson 6: Script Flow Control Statements

• Foreach
• For
• While
• Do While
• Do Until
• Branching
• IF
• Switch
• Break /Continue

Lesson 7: Formatting

• Format- cmdlets
• Format-List (FL)
• Format-Table
• Format-Wide
• Format-Custom
• Session Colors
• GroupBy
• Sort-Object, Where-Object

Lesson 8: Regular Expressions

• Syntax
• Uses/Filtering With Regular Expressions

Lesson 9: Exporting Results to Files

• CSV
• HTML
• XML
• Custom & Filtered Output

Lesson 10: Functions, Filters and Arguments

• Functions
• Filters
• Managing Functions

Lesson 11: Error Handling

• Terminating & NonTerminating Errors
• Error Actions
• Trapping Errors
• Throwing Errors

Lesson 12: WMI

• Win32_LogicalDisk
• Win32_OperatingSystem
• Win32_Share
• Other classes
• Remote Computers and WMI

Lesson 13: Active Directory/ADSI

• Accessing Active Directory
• Adding & Removing Users
• Groups
• Updating User Properties

Lesson 14: Exchange

• Enabling Mailboxes
• Filtering & Manipulating Quotas, etc.

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