Mastering PowerShell: Beginner to Efficient Level (Udemy.com)

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 !!

COURSE OVERVIEW

In this course, you get a detailed learning about PowerShell that includes (but not limited to) -

PowerShell Overview, Evolution & Background

• What is PowerShell & Why Its Popularity growing day by day

• Brief About Version History & Difference Between Windows PowerShell & Core

• Installation of PowerShell Core

• Know PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment)

• How to Install & Use Visual Studio (VS) Code

• Why it is very critical to master PowerShell Help Center to master PowerShell, different commands & parameters and how to master Help Center

PowerShell Variables Deep Dive

• What are PowerShell Variables, their Characteristics & best practice to use them in the Best way.

• 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