PowerShell from Zero: Learning Guide

Name: PowerShell from Zero: Learning Guide
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Categories: Automation, Classroom

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12 months of access. Your one-time payment gives you access to this course for 12 months from the day you are enrolled. It does not renew automatically. Want the whole catalogue? All-access membership is coming soon.

How this course works

12 months of access from the day you enrol
Self-paced lessons, hands-on labs and resources
Certificate of completion when you finish
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The written learning guide as a PDF you keep. Good if you only want the reading material.

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Classroom course (this page)

The guide plus structured lessons, labs, progress tracking, quizzes and a certificate, with 12 months of access and updates.

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The full PowerShell from Zero learning guide by Williams Okoro, now inside the classroom. It takes you from your first command to scripts that audit and secure Windows systems: foundations, scripting, real automation, and security and administration.

Every snippet is explained line by line. Each part ends with exercises and a mini-project, and the answers are in the appendices. Keep it open beside you in every module: the PowerShell module on Saturday 3 builds on Parts 1 and 2.

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Use scripts at your own risk. The PowerShell scripts and commands in this course are provided for educational purposes only, “as is” and without warranty of any kind. Always review and test them in a non-production environment before use. You are solely responsible for any script or command you run in a production environment and for any resulting data loss, service interruption or other damage. Okowil Solutions Inc. accepts no liability for the use of this material. Read the full terms.

Course Content

Getting started

About this guide: copyright and terms
How to use this guide
Setting up

Part 1: Foundations

1.1 Commands: the Verb-Noun pattern
1.2 The help system
1.3 Parameters and aliases
1.4 The pipeline
1.5 Objects: the big idea
1.6 Variables and data types
1.7 Working with text
1.8 Operators
1.9 Arrays and hashtables
1.10 Displaying and saving output
Part 1 exercises

Part 2: Scripting

Part 3: Real automation

3.1 Calculated properties and splatting
3.2 Dates and times
3.3 Pattern matching with regular expressions
3.4 Talking to the web
3.5 Logging
3.6 Building reports
3.7 Scheduling scripts to run on their own
3.8 Modules and your profile
3.9 Running commands on other computers
3.10 Project: a website health checker
Part 3 exercises

Part 4: Security and administration

4.1 Ground rules
4.2 Users and groups
4.3 Services, processes and start-up items
4.4 Event logs
4.5 File permissions and integrity
4.6 Network checks
4.7 Handling credentials safely
4.8 Securing PowerShell itself
4.9 Patch and hardening checks
4.10 Project: a security audit report
Part 4 exercises

Appendices

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How this course works

Ebook edition

Classroom course (this page)

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Getting started

About this guide: copyright and terms

How to use this guide

Setting up

Part 1: Foundations

1.1 Commands: the Verb-Noun pattern

1.2 The help system

1.3 Parameters and aliases

1.4 The pipeline

1.5 Objects: the big idea

1.6 Variables and data types

1.7 Working with text

1.8 Operators

1.9 Arrays and hashtables

1.10 Displaying and saving output

Part 1 exercises

Part 2: Scripting

2.1 Your first script

2.2 Making decisions: if and switch

2.3 Loops: repeating work

2.4 Functions

2.5 Handling errors

2.6 Files and folders

2.7 Structured data: CSV and JSON

2.8 A complete script, explained

Part 2 exercises

Part 3: Real automation

3.1 Calculated properties and splatting

3.2 Dates and times

3.3 Pattern matching with regular expressions

3.4 Talking to the web

3.5 Logging

3.6 Building reports

3.7 Scheduling scripts to run on their own

3.8 Modules and your profile

3.9 Running commands on other computers

3.10 Project: a website health checker

Part 3 exercises

Part 4: Security and administration

4.1 Ground rules

4.2 Users and groups

4.3 Services, processes and start-up items

4.4 Event logs

4.5 File permissions and integrity

4.6 Network checks

4.7 Handling credentials safely

4.8 Securing PowerShell itself

4.9 Patch and hardening checks

4.10 Project: a security audit report

Part 4 exercises

Appendices

Appendix A. Cheat sheet

Appendix B. Reading errors

Appendix C. Glossary

Appendix D. Answers to the exercises

Appendix E. Eight-week study plan

Appendix F. Where to go next

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