Windows Classroom Series – 23/Sept/2020

What this course is

• This course enables you to automate deployments on Windows Servers
• Using From Powershell Terminal

What this course is not about is

• Windows Server Administration
• Windows Desktop Administration
• Understanding GUI

Powershell

• Powershell
  1. Terminal Which is shipped along with windows
  2. Powershell is made available to mac & Linux OS via Powershell Core
• Any shell will have commands, Powershell commands come in different flavors
  • Cmdlets:
    1. Built-in commands provided by microsoft are cmdlets.
  • Functions
    1. Commands written in powershell for reusability.
  • Aliases
  • External Scripts
• Powershell Command Scheme Verb-Noun. Most commonly available verbs are Get, Set, Update, Remove etc… Some of the popular nouns Process, Services etc

Get-Command

• Cmdlets take parameters
• Lets Experiment today

Get-Command -Verb Get
Get-Command -Verb Get -Noun Process
Get-Command -Noun Process

• Lets Find Command lets to Start a Process (notepad)

Noun = Process

Lab Environment

1. Windows 10 Laptop or VM
2. Visual Studio Code (For Developing Powershell Scripts)
3. One Cloud Account (Free Cloud Account)

Basic Powershell Concepts

• Variable:

  • variables are prefixed with $ symbol

  • Two types of variables

    • User Defined Variables
    • Automatic Variables:
      • To view all the variables Get-Variable

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