This 75-minute PowerShell crash course presentation teaches key PowerShell usage patterns using real-world tasks as examples. It covers loading extensions and modules, cmdlet and parameter names, piping, formatting output as tables, manipulating objects, comparison operators, filtering with Where-Object, using WMI, batch cmdlets like Invoke-WmiMethod, and PowerShell scripting. The slide deck is available on the company's website and they offer additional training resources.

1. 75-Minute PowerShellCrash Course Don Jones Concentrated Technology http://ConcentratedTech.com

2. This slide deck was used in one of our many conference presentations. We hope you enjoy it, and invite you to use it within your own organization however you like. For more information on our company, including information on private classes and upcoming conference appearances, please visit our Web site, www.ConcentratedTech.com. For links to newly-posted decks, follow us on Twitter:@concentrateddon or @concentratdgreg This work is copyright ©Concentrated Technology, LLC

3. Welcome! This is a demo-intensivesession I will capture a shell transcript, which will be downloadable from ConcentratedTech.com next week We will be covering key PowerShell usage patterns, using real-world tasks as our examples Learn these patterns and you can teach yourself to do anything you need to in PowerShell!

4. Loading Extensions, Learning Commands Snap-ins Get-PSSnapin –registered Add-PSSnapinname Get-Command –pssnapinname Modules Get-Module –listAvailable Import-Module name Get-Command –module name Help

5. Cmdlet and Parameter Names Verb-Noun (singular) -parameter value “quotes” or ‘quotes’ around strings (especially those with spaces) Use wildcards with Help Use –full, -example, and –online with Help Use Get-Command

6. Piping Like Dir | More only better Pipeline binding ByValue Pipeline binding ByPropertyName

7. Tables of Information Use Get-Member to see all “columns” Okay, these are really objects Column = Property Row = Object (instance) Use Format-List, Format-Wide, and Format-Table Wildcards work with –property param

8. Manipulating Objects Sorting Measuring Selecting subsets Selecting specific properties (columns)

9. Custom Property Syntax Works with –property parameter of Select-Object, Format-List, and Format-Table @{n=’col_name’;e={$_.expression}} Use this to bind ComputerNameByPropertyname

10. Two More Ways of GettingComputer Names (parentheses) with Select-Object –expand (parentheses) with Get-Content

11. Comparison Operators -eq, -ne -ge, -gt -le, -lt -list (use * as wildcard) All case-sensitive Use –ceq, -cne, etc. for case-sensitive

12. Filtering Objects Use Where-Object –filterscript {} $_ represents the current row (object) that was piped in

13. WMI Use Get-WmiObject Specify –class and –namespace (unless it’s rootIMv2) Specify –filter (WQL syntax, not PowerShell) Pipe to Sort, Select, Where, etc. Drive inventory anyone? Use WMI Explorer to locate stuff

14. Making Things Happen Batch Cmdlets Invoke-WmiMethod ForEach-Object ($_ again!)

15. Scripting Security (Get/Set-ExecutionPolicy) .PS1 filename extension Parameterizing a script Script  Function Dot-sourcing functions Creating “script modules”

16. That was a lot. There’s a ton more… Learn it all in an hour a day with Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches Companion DVD includes 99 demo videos that align with each chapter

17. Final Q&A Text DONJ to 50500 for contact info See me for add’l resources Books Workshop recordings Demo videos Etc Slide decks posted to ConcentratedTech.com by next week

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19. This slide deck was used in one of our many conference presentations. We hope you enjoy it, and invite you to use it within your own organization however you like. For more information on our company, including information on private classes and upcoming conference appearances, please visit our Web site, www.ConcentratedTech.com. For links to newly-posted decks, follow us on Twitter:@concentrateddon or @concentratdgreg This work is copyright ©Concentrated Technology, LLC