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Learning Task Automation using Windows PowerShell

Name: Learning Task Automation using Windows PowerShell
Rating: 4.3 (526 reviews)

PowerShell guide to introduce you with PowerShell scripting and use PowerShell ISE, PowerShell cmdlets for automations

Created byTechSckool By Vijay, Pooja Kataria

Last updated 6/2024

English

What you'll learn

Full of hands-on instructions, interesting and illustrative examples, clear explanations
Learn an important and mandatory skill for Windows Server Administration
Learn Windows PowerShell scripting
Understanding of the power of Windows PowerShell
Fundamentals of Programming -Variables,Arrays,loops
File Operations, Task Scheduler, Windows Processes & Services
How to form statements using PowerShell Cmdlets
Write your Automation scripts

Course content

7 sections • 40 lectures • 3h 2m total length

Introduction2:56
In this lecture, we will get introduced to the course on Windows PowerShell and understand how PowerShell can help us to automate our tasks.
What is PowerShell and Why PowerShell6:22
In this lecture we will discuss the definition of power shell and see why makes powershell an essential skill for system administrators & IT professionals.
Frequently Asked Questions0:23
Getting PowerShell1:45
Microsoft website WMF (PowerShell) download URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50395
Your Voice Matters2:46
Your voice matters in learning PowerShell task automation; leave reviews and ratings to guide the instructor, help future students, and improve course content.
PowerShell Console & ISE3:25
Explore the PowerShell console and ISE, learn to open, customize appearance, and write scripts in a single gui. See command discovery with Get-Service on localhost.
Few basic commands for Navigation in console3:06
In this lecture, we will discuss some basic CMD or batch commands and their corresponding powershell commands to be able to comfortable traverse in powershell terminal.
Session1 Refresher Quiz

PsversionTable & Introduction to Objects5:23
In this lecture, we will get introduced to PowerShell Version, Objects, and how objects makes PowerShell extremely powerful with the help of PowerShell pipeline.
PowerShell Help4:42
While working in PowerShell , how to get relevant commands and detailed help with examples for those PowerShell commandlets.
Update-Help and Save-Help1:54
While working in PowerShell, how can we get the latest help and how to save the help to the file system.
Getting PowerShell Concept based help0:10
How to get the PowerShell's concept based help
PowerShell Intellisense1:16
In this lecture, we will get introduced to PowerShell IntelliSense which helps developers by intelligently auto-suggesting appropriate PowerShell commandlets.
PowerShell Aliases3:42
In this lecture, we will get introduced to PowerShell Aliases and see how we can create a short name for long PowerShell commandlets.
Session 2 Refresher Quiz

Variable & constants5:32
In this lecture, we will get introduced to basic concepts of scripting with PowerShell variables and variable data types.
Write-Host & Write-Output3:31
In this lecture, we will get introduced to how to write our output on console as well compare the different commandlets and understand which one is better out of these powershell commandlets.
Comparison Operators1:35
In this lecture, we will explore how to compare 2 values in powershell scripting.
If, If-Else Condition3:22
In this lecture, we will get introduced to decision-making using help of the if-else loop with the help of powershell comparison operator.
Error Handling - Try & Catch5:01
In this lecture, we will explore Error Handling - Try & Catch.
Arrays4:58
In this lecture, we will explore PowerShell Arrays and understand how to store values in Array as well as how to access the values from an array.
Iterations (While Loop & For Loop)6:32
In this lecture, we will explore Iterations (While Loop & For Loop)
Session 3 Refresher Quiz
Some Basic Programming Practice

Check a file's existence and read4:10
In this lecture, we will explore how to check a file's existence with Test-Path and read the content of the file into PowerShell with Get-Content.
Mini Exercise1:55
In this lecture, we will demonstrate a working PowerShell script.
CSV File Handling with PowerShell20:27
Learn to handle CSV data with PowerShell by reading, filtering, adding and removing columns, and exporting results back to CSV as custom objects.
XML File Handling4:57
In this lecture, we will explore XML File Handling with PowerShell.
Create a new file and write content2:26
In this lecture, we will explore how to create a new file with PowerShell and write our text using PowerShell commandlet.
Create a structured Log File3:47
In this lecture, we will explore how to create a formatted log file with timestamps.
File Operation and data manipulation
Prepare Employee benefit's eligibility status

What is a windows process4:44
In this lecture, we will get introduced to Windows Process.
What is a windows service2:17
In this lecture, we will get introduced to Windows Service.
Get-Process9:01
In this lecture, we will get introduced to managing Windows Process with the help of PowerShell.
Get-Services5:09
In this lecture, we will get introduced to managing Windows Service with the help of PowerShell.
What exactly is PowerShell Pipeline1:56
In this lecture, we will get introduced to PowerShell Pipeline.
Format-List, Format-Table and ConvertTo cmdlets4:56
In this lecture, we will get introduced to PowerShell Pipeline.
Practice of Get-Process, Get-Service and ConvertTo cmdlets
Logical Thinking(Theory based)
System Administartion

What is a task Scheduler4:08
In this lecture, we will get introduced to Windows Task Scheduler.
Automation 1 : File Purging -Draft15:35
In this lecture, we will get develop a PowerShell Automation script for your production environment.
Purge Automation Enhancements6:24
In this lecture, we will get develop a PowerShell Automation script for your production environment.
Automation 2 Scheduled Services Restart (Production Ready)12:35
In this lecture, we will get develop a PowerShell Automation script for your production environment.
Mini Project : Arrange My Music Library
Thinking Ability
End Course Test(Unsolved)2:12

What we have learnt4:32
Explore PowerShell basics from definition to installation, ISE features, and GUI scripting. Master Get-Help and Get-Command, control flow, file handling, formatting, and Task Scheduler automation for Windows administration.
What is Next2:53
Discover how to gain hands-on PowerShell experience by automating simple tasks, evaluating script efficiency, and advancing toward professional, advanced task automation with Windows PowerShell.
Bonus Lecture0:13

Requirements

Desire to Automate manual tasks
PC/Laptop installed with Windows OS. You should be able to use PC/laptop comfortably.
Some basic understanding of command line (Win CMD/Unix Shell) will help quickly picking up

Description

THIS COURSE IS FREQUENTLY UPDATED. LAST UPDATED IN OCTOBER 2022

*** This Course purchase includes video lectures, practice files, quizzes, & assignments, 1-on-1 instructor support, LIFETIME access and a 100%MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE***

Please note that this course will be continuously getting updated with more videos to keep you up to date on Windows PowerShell. You may see here a lot of production ready automation scripts very soon. Please encourage by enrolling and providing your honest reviews & ratings. You can also demand a lecture on a specific topic of PowerShell which comes under scope of this course.

The course is designed to help IT Professionals in starting with Windows PowerShell scripting. You might not find an extremely advanced PowerShell topic in the lectures. Here, prime focus is on the IT professionals who want to learn PowerShell scripting but are hesitating due to less or no knowledge of programming. Topics which may not be Windows PowerShell concepts but are important for developing PowerShell understanding are included which comes as bonus.

The course is intend to make people think in terms of automating small daily tasks using PowerShell and improve work efficiency and then gradually move towards complex logical tasks. Once you have completed this course, you will be should be able to fully control even the modules which are not part of our discussion.

Important Content:

PowerShell Automation Solution for File Purging

PowerShell Automation for Scheduled Service restarts

Windows Task Scheduler and scheduling PowerShell scripts to run

PowerShell Basic Fundamentals

PowerShell Programming basics for Absolute Beginners

File Handling in PowerShell Scripting

PowerShell for Daily life Automation

All of the basic concepts of PowerShell have been explained in simple terminology. You will start falling for PowerShell, that is a promise. so Lets start this scripting journey :)

Who this course is for:

Students/IT Professionals who desire to automate their or team's day to day life manual work
System Administrator (Beginners )
Aspirants seeking carrier in IT Automation
Anyone who want to get basic understanding of coding/scripting

Learning Task Automation using Windows PowerShell

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Course content

Overview7 lectures • 21min

Starting with PowerShell6 lectures • 17min

Programming Basics7 lectures • 31min

File Operations6 lectures • 38min

System Administration6 lectures • 28min

Automation for production environment5 lectures • 41min

Conclusion3 lectures • 8min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: