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Powershell Essential Training on Automation and Scripting

Name: Powershell Essential Training on Automation and Scripting
Rating: 4.5 (961 reviews)

Learn powershell from scratch and become a geek in powershell Automation and Powershell scripting. FREE TOOL DOWNLOAD

Created byPowershell Academy

Last updated 12/2025

English

What you'll learn

Automation means "the creation and application of technology to monitor and control the production and delivery of products and services".
FREE TOOL !!!!! Download a free tool in the BONUS SECTION for managing 9 remote server functionalities.
In this course you will learn on 'How to automate daily admin task using PowerShell !!!
Learn powershell by setting up a domain based LAB yourself.

Course content

11 sections • 57 lectures • 6h 54m total length

About me : A very very short Intro !!!1:13
What this course is about ?3:43
A brief introduction on the topics that we are going to cover in the entire course.
Why Powershell and NOT Command Prompt5:13
This lecture will help you understand how Powershell stands different from Command Prompt.

Download VMWare Player - Steps0:16
Please find the download link to VMWare player in the article.
Install VMWare Player in your Workstation4:23
Create Virtual Machine VM1 using VMWare Player16:00
This video helps you familiarize yourself with building a Virtual Machine using VMWare player and Windows binaries.
Install VMVare Tools for enhancement of the Virtual Machine features3:03
Create VM2 and CENTRAL SERVER9:59
This Lecture explains on the installation of servers named VM2 and CENTRAL SERVER using VMWare Workstation Player. CENTRAL SERVER is going to be the domain controller server too for spinning up the domain for the servers VM1 and VM2.
Domain and Domain Controller Set Up7:38
This lecture explains how to convert a server to a domain controller and set up a domain with it. Once the domain controller is set up, we will discuss on joining the other servers to the domain just built.
Joining the Servers to the domain 'LAB'11:43
This is the last lecture of the first section to set up a lab for your automation purpose.
In this lecture, it explains
- how to set up the static IP for the servers and join the servers to the domain.
- how to create a domain user having access to all the servers in domain.
(Optional)Set up Virtual Machine (VM1) using VMWare Workstation Pro8:19
This lecture is an optional one. This will just show how to create a VM using the VMWare workstation Pro software. We have already built VM1 using VMWare Player. However, for demo part , i destroyed the VM and recreating it using the VMWare Workstation Pro.
Enjoy...
Internet connectivity Issues - VMWARE Virtual machines2:34
This video shows you how to fix internet connectivity issues in VMware Workstation virtual machines with a static IP.
License Extension - Windows Server Evaluation Edition1:56

Know Powershell ISE - The IDE for powershell6:26
Variables and Datatypes in Powershell7:38
This lecture talks about : -
Working of Variables in Powershell
How data types are assigned to the variables.
Explanation with demo.
Arrays4:35
Looping - for loop9:04
Looping - foreach5:49
Conditional Operators (if, else, if-else)6:04
Comparison Operators (-eq, -ne, -gt , -le , -and , -or , not ,-in,-match)16:01
Looping - while & do-while9:28
Get-Content Cmdlet4:23
This will give an idea about the Get-Content Cmdlet which is used to get the content of a text file.
Get-Services Commandlet3:51
Get the details of the services running in your system.
Get-Child Item Commandlet0:53
Why you need Get-ChildItem commandlet?
Demo - Get-ChildItem6:37
Detailed demo on the commandlet Get-ChildItem which will let you understand the application of this commandlet while going through your scripting process.
functions6:02
Modules in Powershell15:27
Error Handling (try, catch, finally)10:19
Secure Your credentias in Powershell10:02
What If switch in Powershell3:36
Whatif switch is great for the commands that do not display any output when executed, or if you are unsure of the overall impact of your command.

Requirements

ABSOLUTELY NO!!! Just creativity and enthusiasm are the only requirements for taking up this course. The course will take you through from BASICS of PowerShell.
Eagerness to learn Powershell

Description

This course will ensure that each one taking it up gets an opportunity to fulfill their own dream for automation. Starting from the PowerShell basics, this course will help you to understand what PowerShell is and how it can be used to develop your own applications that will automate Windows day-to-day admin tasks. You also get a chance to know how to set up your own lab and can experience the practicals usings the demo scripts.

So Don't MISS this!!!

Main topics covered in this course :-

1 Intro : Automation Using Powershell

2 Powershell Vs Commandline

3 Easy Set up a Lab for your automation

4 Install VMWare Player

5 Create Virtual Machine VM1 using VMWare Player

6 Install VMWareTools

7 Create VM2 and Central Server

8 Domain and Domain controller Set Up

9 Joining servers to a domain

10 Get-ChildItem Commandlet

11 Get-Service Commandlet

12 Get-content Commandlet

13 Get-Process Commandlet

14 Arrays

15 Conditional Operators

16 Comparison Operators

17 for loop

18 while - do while

19 Variables and Datatypes

20 Error Handling (try catch)

21 File Handling using text files

22 File Handling uisng Csv files

23 File Handling using XML Files

24 Saving output to text file (Out-File Cmdlet)

25 Displaying output to gridview

26 Displaying output to HTML

27 Saving output as CSV file

28 Execution Policy and Run your first script

29 Windows drive space analysis using powershell

30 Sending Mails using powershell : Send-MailMessage

31 Automate your script through Windows Task Scheduler

32 Automate your script thorugh the Jenkins (a widely usedfree Devops Tool)

33 Automate your scripts through SQL Server Agent

Who this course is for:

Anybody who is interested in Automating Admin tasks in LINUX and WINDOWS can checkout this video. You can play around using the commands and scripts to create your own Application.
Become competent by learning powershell automation and stand different in the CROWD.

Powershell Essential Training on Automation and Scripting

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Course content

Introduction about the Course and Instructer3 lectures • 10min

Slides of the course1 lecture • 1min

Easy Set up a Lab : An Infrastructure set up.10 lectures • 1hr 6min

Powershell Essentials for Automation17 lectures • 2hr 6min

File Handling in Powershell4 lectures • 42min

Output Display Options with Powershell4 lectures • 28min

Scripting using Powershell5 lectures • 41min

Automation with Powershell5 lectures • 53min

Desired State Configuration Powershell5 lectures • 41min

Ad hoc scripts1 lecture • 1min

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