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If you want to Master PowerShell Scripting and use the power of automation, then this course is for you.
Now a days every Leading Platform using PowerShell as its Management Tool, whether it is Microsoft Products, VMware, Citrix, cloud Providers like Azure, AWS, or Google etc.
Now either we need to learn each Platform's own command line Tool to manage them or we can Learn a Single Powerful Tool that is "PowerShell" to manage them All.
Means PowerShell is a Skill, that perfectly fit into framework of "Learn Once, Apply everywhere, throughout your career"
If you want to Master PowerShell Scripting and use the power of automation, then this course is for you.
Now a days every Leading Platform using PowerShell as its Management Tool, whether it is Microsoft Products, VMware, Citrix, cloud Providers like Azure, AWS, or Google etc.
Now either we need to learn each Platform's own command line Tool to manage them or we can Learn a Single Powerful Tool that is "PowerShell" to manage them All.
Means PowerShell is a Skill, that perfectly fit into framework of "Learn Once, Apply everywhere, throughout your career"
In this Course we start from scratch, So absolute Beginners are also most welcome .
Data Types, why sometimes necessary to declare data types explicitly
Different types of Variable Scopes & way to override default behaviors to make awesome scripts
Set of Commands that can be used to handle Variables
Use cases to understand Variable uses in real world scripting
Working With Custom Input & Output
Interactive Input, Uses, benefits & Best practices
Know the commands used for accepting Custom Input or Output like Read-Host, Write-Host etc.
Ways of writing other output like error, debug, Warning, Verbose etc.
PowerShell Operators in Depth
Understanding PowerShell Operators & their characteristics
A detailed discussion about Arithmetic Operators ,Assignment Operator, Equality Operators, Matching Operators, Containment Operators, replacement Operators, Type Operators, Logical Operators, redirection Operators, Split Operator, Join Operator, Unary Operator, Grouping Operator, Subexpression Operator, Call Operator, Cast Operator, Comma Operator Range Operator & Member Access Operator
Creating complex Conditions & evaluation criteria using different type of Operators
Working With PowerShell Pipelines
What are PowerShell Pipelines & their Characteristics
What are the right places for using PowerShell Pipelines
Using pipeline in typical conditional like with commands that does not generate output on console by default
Understanding inside working of Pipelines to make troubleshooting easy
PowerShell Arrays Deep Dive
What exactly PowerShell arrays are and how we can easily create or initialize them using different approaches based on form of available input
Understanding the working of Array indexing and its usage in accessing elements of an Array
Usage of different methods of PowerShell Arrays like Clear, Foreach & Where to perform different actions like Clearing elements, Iterating an action again elements of an array or filtering Contents of an Array
Adding or removing element of an Array
PowerShell Hashtable
Understanding Hashtables & different approaches for creating them
Understanding Ordered Hashtable, their benefits, and creation method
Access & Modification (Add/remove) of Keys & Values of Hashtable using different Approaches
Making efficient Conditions & Logics Using Hashtable
Sorting, filtering and other operations on key value pair of Hashtable using enumeration
Creating different type of Custom Table using PSCustomObject
Loops & Conditions
For Loop, Do Loop, While Loop, Foreach Loop, If-Else Statement, their syntaxes, Workflows and their use cases in real
Error Handling
Thoroughly understanding and working with error variable and creating custom error message
Try-Catch-Finally to deal with Terminating & non Terminating errors
Working with Background Jobs
Background Jobs, Uses & Best Practices for them
Decide between Synchronous &. Asynchronous jobs
Creating a local, WMI or Remote job
Dealing Job results
Making use of Child Jobs
Working with Commands, used for Managing & Scheduling Jobs
PowerShell Functions Deep Dive
PowerShell Functions, benefits, Scope, Best Practices & Syntax
What exactly Advanced functions are & how they differ from Simple functions & the best benefits of using them
Creating parameters & defining their different attributes like if parameter is mandatory, does it accept Pipelined Input, Should it accept single value or multiple values, Is it positional or not etc.
Writing Comment based help for a function to make it user friendly
Maintaining Compliance & Uniformity by using validated set of Possible Values.
Exploring Regular Expressions (Regex)
Regex quick start & resources
Finding ways regex patterns with Commands like Select-String
Using regex with Operators like Match, replace, Split
Regex with conditional statements like SWITCH
Using regex for Validating a parameter value pattern
Using Powershell To Work Remotely on Computers (Powershell Remoting)
What is Powershell Remoting & What are it's Usage
What are Different Approaches To Work Remotely On Computers Using Powershell
Understanding Different Components of Powershell Remoting for Enabling & Troubleshooting Purpose
How we can Enable Powershell Remoting in Domain Environment and Workgroup Environment
How we can create One-One or One-Many Powershell Sessions for Remote Work
How we can use Local resources (Present on Local Client) like Variable, Functions or Script on remote Computers
Understanding and working with Persistent Sessions
After completing this course -
You will find yourself very efficient and confident in using PowerShell Skill in your daily professional life.
You will be able to automate all the stuff that you are doing currently using Graphical User Interface (GUI) of various platforms like Windows Client & Server, Officer 365, Azure, AWS, VMware, Citrix etc.
Please don't wait that others should encourage you to learn this Skill.
Try to identify the need and demand of Today's time, and Grab this opportunity to Learn this new Skill to match pace with Trending Time and Technologies.
I am sure, As soon as you complete this course, You will be very efficient in automation using PowerShell Scripting.
All the best :)
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