PowerShell: A Getting Started Guide for IT Admins
What you'll learn
- Course Goal: To familiarize the student with Powershell and give you the tools to create time-saving scripts and automation techniques
- Objective: How to setup Powershell from scratch
- Objective: Learn the core components of Powershell to give you enough understanding of language so you know what to look for when running into a problem
- Objective: How to create your first script and leverage it's usefulness to your own environment
Requirements
- A PC running Windows 7 or greater
- Preferably, a PC in an enterprise environment to follow along with the remote PC management topics
- A basic understanding of scripting or software development will be helpful but not required
Description
Automation techniques and scripting skills are no longer optional for a systems administrator; they are a necessity! Powershell is the scripting language that’s behind this requirement. Since Microsoft has released the Powershell language it only continues to pick up steam and be implemented across dozens of platforms. Powershell is now not only a scripting language like VBscript it’s a fully featured management framework that you can’t afford not to utilize.
This course will take your position to the next level if you’re a:
- Sharepoint Administrator
- Active Directory Administrator
- PC Technician
- Helpdesk Operator
- SAN Administrator
- VMware Administrator
- Amazon AWS Administrator
- ..and many more IT positions!
Don’t get looked over for that promotion or new job. Learn Powershell today to keep up with the ever-changing IT culture and to help make your job so much easier through automation.
Who this course is for:
- Microsoft Systems Administrators
- Helpdesk Technicians
- Vmware/Hyper-V Administrators
- SAN Administrators
- Anyone that is still using batch files, VBScript, Kix or another legacy scripting language to get things done
Course content
- Preview01:33
- 01:16What to Expect
- 00:34Prerequisite Knowledge
- 00:49What You're Going to Get From This Course
Instructor
![Adam Bertram](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Adam Bertram is a Senior Automation Engineer, independent consultant, technical writer, trainer, and presenter. Adam specializes in consulting and evangelizing all things IT automation mainly focused around PowerShell. Adam is a Microsoft Windows Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP and has authored various training courses, is a regular contributor to numerous print and online publications and presents at various user groups and conferences.