Mastering PowerShell from Beginner to Advanced Level

Mastering PowerShell from Beginner to Advanced Level course will help you learn PowerShell Scripting and use the power of automation.

PowerShell is now the de facto management tool for every Major Platform, including cloud providers like Azure, AWS, Google, VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft Products.

Now, to manage them, we may either learn a single, powerful tool called "PowerShell" or we must learn the specific command line tool for each platform.

The implication is that PowerShell is a skill that perfectly matches the adage "Learn once, apply everywhere, throughout your lifetime."

Mastering PowerShell from Beginner to Advanced Level Course Overview

In this course, you get a detailed learning about PowerShell that includes (but not limited to) -

PowerShell Overview, Evolution & Background

• What is PowerShell & Why Its Popularity growing day by day
• Brief About Version History & Difference Between Windows PowerShell & Core
• Installation of PowerShell Core
• Know PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment)
• How to Install & Use Visual Studio (VS) Code
• Why it is very critical to master PowerShell Help Center to master PowerShell, different commands & parameters, and how to master Help Center

PowerShell Variables Deep Dive

• What are PowerShell Variables, their Characteristics & best practices to use them in the Best way?
• Data Types, why sometimes necessary to declare data types explicitly
• Different types of Variable Scopes & ways to override default behaviors to make awesome scripts
• Set of Commands that can be used to handle Variables
• Use cases to understand Variable uses in real-world scripting

Working With Custom Input & Output

• Interactive Input, Uses, benefits & Best practices
• Know the commands used for accepting Custom Input or Output like Read-Host, Write-Host, etc.
• Ways of writing other output like error, debug, Warning, Verbose, etc.

PowerShell Operators in Depth

• Understanding PowerShell Operators and their characteristics
• A detailed discussion about Arithmetic Operators, Assignment Operator, Equality Operators, Matching Operators, Containment Operators, replacement Operators, Type Operators, Logical Operators, redirection Operators, Split Operator, Join Operator, Unary Operator, Grouping Operator, Subexpression Operator, Call Operator, Cast Operator, Comma Operator Range Operator & Member Access Operator
• Creating complex Conditions & evaluation criteria using different types of Operators

Working With PowerShell Pipelines

• What are PowerShell Pipelines & their Characteristics
• What are the right places for using PowerShell Pipelines
• Using pipeline in typical conditional like with commands that do not generate output on the console by default
• Understanding the inside workings of Pipelines to make troubleshooting easy

PowerShell Arrays Deep Dive

• What exactly PowerShell arrays are and how we can easily create or initialize them using different approaches based on the form of available input
• Understanding the working of Array indexing and its usage in accessing elements of an Array
• Usage of different methods of PowerShell Arrays like Clear, Foreach & Where to perform different actions like Clearing elements, Iterating an action against elements of an array, or filtering Contents of an Array
• Adding or removing the element of an Array

PowerShell Hashtable

• Understanding Hashtables & different approaches for creating them
• Understanding Ordered Hashtable, their benefits, and creation method
• Access and modification (Add/remove) of Keys and values of Hashtable using different Approaches
• Making efficient conditions & logic using hashtable
• Sorting, filtering, and other operations on key-value pair of Hashtable using enumeration
• Creating different types of Custom Tables using PSCustomObject

Loops & Conditions

• For Loop, Do Loop, While Loop, Foreach Loop, If-Else Statement, their syntaxes, Workflows, and their use cases in real

Error Handling

• Thoroughly understanding and working with error variables and creating custom error message
• Try-Catch-Finally to deal with Terminating & non Terminating errors

Working with Background Jobs

• Background Jobs, Uses & Best Practices for them
• Decide between Synchronous &. Asynchronous jobs
• Creating a local, WMI, or Remote job
• Dealing Job results
• Using of Child Jobs
• Working with Commands, used for Managing & Scheduling Jobs

PowerShell Functions Deep Dive

• PowerShell Functions, benefits, Scope, Best Practices & Syntax
• What exactly Advanced functions are & how do they differ from Simple functions & the best benefits of using them
• Creating parameters & defining their different attributes like if the parameter is mandatory, does it accepts Pipelined Input, Should it accepts single value or multiple values, whether Is it positional or not, etc.
• Writing Comment help a function to make it user-friendly
• Maintaining Compliance and uniformity by using a validated set of Possible Values.

Exploring Regular Expressions (Regex)

• Regex quick start & resources
• Finding ways to regex patterns with Commands like Select-String
• Using regex with Operators like Match, replace, Split
• Regex with conditional statements like SWITCH
• Using regex for Validating a parameter value pattern

Using Powershell To Work Remotely on Computers (Powershell Remoting)

• What is Powershell Remoting & What are its Usage
• What are Different Approaches To Work Remotely On Computers Using Powershell
• Understanding Different Components of Powershell Remoting for Enabling & Troubleshooting Purposes
• How we can Enable Powershell Remoting in the Domain Environment and Workgroup Environment
• How we can create One-One or One-Many Powershell Sessions for Remote Work
• How we can use Local resources (Present on Local Clients) like Variable, Functions, or Script on remote Computers
• Understanding and working with Persistent Sessions

You will be very proficient and assured in utilizing PowerShell in your day-to-day professional life after completing this course.

Using the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of several platforms like Windows Client & Server, Office 365, Azure, Amazon, VMware, Citrix, etc., you will be able to automate everything you presently do.

Please don't wait for someone else to push you to pick up this skill.

Try to determine what today's needs and wants are, and seize the chance to master this new skill to keep up with the latest technologies.

After finishing this course, I have no doubt that you will be an automation expert utilizing PowerShell scripting.