Microsoft Windows PowerShell v2 For Administrators

Creating a custom profile

Optional: Reading Registry Data

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Identify the requirements for running PowerShell

Describe PowerShell cmdlets

Understand the purpose of snapins and modules

Describe the remote management capabilities of PowerShell

Reference PowerShell drives and navigate in PowerShell hosts

Understand how to customize the PowerShell environment through profiles

This module explains how to use the PowerShell pipeline at the command line and in script files. It provides information on retrieving information on the properties and methods of objects. The module closes with information on command line syntax, managing output from cmdlets, and defining script blocks.

Pipelines

Scripts

Syntax, Output and Script Blocks

Working with the PowerShell Pipeline

Using continuation characters for command line scripts

Create a command line script

Working with Operators

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Define the PowerShell pipeline.

Identify what the pipeline is used for.

Use object properties and methods.

Identify various components of statement syntax.

This module explains how to use cmdlets associated with variables. addresses how PowerShell interprets variables based on their content. It reviews the common data types and how to control variable data types. It looks into the scope of the variable itself and finishes with using arrays.

Variables and Data Types

Variable Scopes

Collections

Working with variables and data types

Working with arrays

Working with hash tables

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe how PowerShell interprets variables.

Identify common data types.

Describe the different variable scopes.

Understand how to work with collections of objects.

This module explains how identify and configure script execution policies. It includes information on securing script files through the use of certificates as well as how to capture and use alternate credentials when executing commands. The module ends with a discussion on securing remote sessions.

Script Execution

Signing Scripts

Requesting Credentials and Using Secure Strings

Securing Remote Sessions

Script Execution

Signing Scripts

Requesting Credentials

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Identify script execution policy settings.

Control script execution policy through the command line and group policy.

Request credentials before executing a script.

Describe commands available to secure information in scripts.

Identify ways to secure remote sessions.

This module explains how use the different methods of executing commands remotely. It covers the requirements for using PowerShell remoting, managing remote sessions, and running background jobs.

Configuring Remote Management

Using PowerShell Remoting

Using Jobs

Using Built-in Remoting

Configuring PowerShell Remoting

Using Persistent Sessions

Working with Background Jobs

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the different methods of remote management with PowerShell.

Identify the requirements for remote management.

Configure a system for remote management.

Work with remote sessions.

Manage background jobs.

This module explains how use the language elements of PowerShell. It covers the statements for looping, branching, and managing the behavior of those statements through the use of break and continue keywords.

Foreach and For

While / Do While / Do Until

If / Switch

Break /Continue

Working with Foreach and If

Working with SWITCH

Using Do While / Do Until

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Identify looping statements.

Describe the variations between WHILE / DO WHILE / DO UNTIL.

Describe the differences between IF and SWITCH.

Identify when you can benefit from BREAK or CONTINUE.

This module explains how use the features of PowerShell which allow you to extend its functionality through reusable code. It includes creating robust functions by leveraging parameters and introduces modules which enhance the portability of reusable code.

Functions and Filters

Scripting with Functions and Parameters

Modules

Creating Functions

Working with PowerShell Modules

Create a Script-Based Module

Optional: Updating a Script-Based Module and Using Additional Built-In Modules

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the purpose of a function.

Identify how to pass arguments into a function.

Differentiate between a function and a filter.

Describe how to use functions in a script file.

Identify types of modules.

This module explains how use the error handling environment within PowerShell. It addresses the language components which enhance managing errors. The debugging options within both the console host and the ISE are presented as tools for debugging scripts.

Error Handling

Script Debugging

Working with Errors

Adding Error Handling to Your Script

Script Debugging

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Identify the types of errors

Understand the uses of built-in variables for error handling

Configure the way errors are treated

Use language blocks for handling errors

Implement debugging options

This module explains how use the topics covered in previous modules in every day administrative tasks. It combines the command line, script files, modules and functions to automate a variety of tasks. It introduces the concepts of advanced scripting which make PowerShell an enterprise-ready scripting environment.

Manipulating files and folders

Modifying Registry Data

Working with Events

Working with Active Directory Objects

Advanced Scripting

Scripting Files and Folders

Scripting Registry Changes

Scripting Event Log Lookups

Creating Objects in Active Directory

Retrieving Information from Active Directory

Optional: Create a Simple User Interface

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Work with files and folders.

Change information in the registry.

Read information from event logs.

Understand how to work with Active Directory.

Create simple user interfaces.