Part 1 of 3 in the PowerShell v3/v4 Essentials series is designed for the IT Pro with little to no previous PowerShell experience. The goal of the course is to provide enough training in PowerShell fundamentals, language and syntax so that you can be productive and effective in a very short time. The course has many live demonstrations of PowerShell in action from using WMI to query remote machines for management information, running long running tasks as background jobs, creating pipelined expressions and creating simple PowerShell scripts and functions.
Author Name: Jeff Hicks
Author Description:
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

Table of Contents

• Introduction and Welcome
  9mins
• The PowerShell Paradigm
  26mins
• Requirements and Installations
  15mins
• Using PowerShell Help
  35mins
• The PowerShell ISE
  18mins
• PowerShell Providers
  35mins
• Extending PowerShell
  18mins
• Understanding the PowerShell Pipeline
  60mins
• PowerShell Operators
  39mins