PowerShell tutorial for professionals

Download free PowerShell tutorial course in PDF, training file in 72 chapters and 184 pages. Free unaffiliated ebook created from Stack OverFlow contributor.

Table of contents

• About
• Getting started with PowerShell
• Allow scripts stored on your machine to run un-signed
• Aliases & Similar Functions
• The Pipeline - Using Output from a PowerShell cmdlet
• Calling Net Library Methods
• Installation or Setup
• Commenting
• Creating Objects
• Variables in PowerShell
• Simple variable
• Arrays
• List Assignment of Multiple Variables
• Scope
• Removing a variable
• Operators
• Comparison Operators
• Arithmetic Operators
• Assignment Operators
• Redirection Operators
• Mixing operand types, the type of the left operand dictates the behavior
• Logical Operators
• String Manipulation Operators
• Special Operators
• Array Expression Operator
• Call Operation
• Dot sourcing operator
• Basic Set Operations
• Filtering: Where-Object / where / ?
• Ordering: Sort-Object / sort
• Grouping: Group-Object / group
• Projecting: Select-Object / select
• Conditional logic
• if, else and else if
• Negation
• If conditional shorthand
• Loops
• Foreach
• For
• ForEach() Method
• ForEach-Object
• Continue
• Break
• While
• Do
• Switch statement
• Variables in PowerShell
• Special Operators
• Conditional logic
• Switch statement
• HashTables
• PowerShell Functions
• PowerShell Modules
• Calculated Properties
• Built-in variables
• Environment Variables
• PowerShell "Streams"; Debug, Verbose, Warning, Error, Output and Information
• PowerShell Remoting
• PowerShell Background Jobs
• CSV parsing
• Communicating with RESTful APIs
• Regular Expressions
• Using the progress bar
• Cmdlet Naming
• Enforcing script prerequisites
• Modules, Scripts and Functions
• Common parameters
• PowerShell Dynamic Parameters
• URL Encode/Decode
• Package management
• PowerShell Workflows
• How to download latest artifact from Artifactory using PowerShell script (v2.0 or below)?
• Archive Module
• PSScriptAnalyzer - PowerShell Script Analyzer
• Using ShouldProcess
• ISE module
• WMI and CIM
• ActiveDirectory module
• SharePoint Module
• Introduction to Psake
• Introduction to Pester
• Handling Secrets and Credentials
• Security and Cryptography
• Signing Scripts
• Anonymize IP (v4 and v6) in text file with PowerShell
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Rekognition
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3)

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