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    The Complete Powershell Training for Beginners
    The Complete Powershell Training for Beginners
    The Complete Powershell Training for Beginners
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    The Complete Powershell Training for Beginners

    By Abdelfattah Benammi

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    Interested in learning how to quickly automate basic administrative functions?

    Windows PowerShell is rapidly becoming the solution that Operators turn to with its powerful combination of a scripting language, command line speed, and GUI tools (Graphical User Interface).

    This Book is an introduction to Windows PowerShell Version 5 where you'll have an opportunity to learn how to replace manual, repetitive, and time-consuming operations with an automated solution.

    In this book, you'll be introduced to the Windows PowerShell console and the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) as the main command line interfaces you'll use to work with PowerShell commands.

    Learn the importance of the Windows PowerShell Help system as the quickest way to discover the commands and associated syntax you need for the particular task you want to accomplish.

    Take advantage of the ISE's Intellisense features to learn PowerShell through syntax completion and sorting and filtering commands with the Show Command add-on.

    This book will let you be able to understand the thinking way of the Windows PowerShell and work with it as a servant person that will Execute your commands.

    Every section will be going to let you create a successful habit and a good strategy to easily find the right command, the right syntax of this command, and then running it to get the required result. Also, learn how Providers and Drives work with disparate data sources, such as registry keys, certificates, files, folders, and more

    What You Will Learn

    The book is designed to teach you:

    - Basic concepts of Windows PowerShell
    - How to navigate the Windows PowerShell Help system effectively
    - Find and Discover Any PowerShell Commands
    - Interpret and understand how to read the Help of any Commands
    - Formalization of the Right Syntax and Running the commands
    - Working with Providers and Drives
    - Understand the Variables Strings, Hash tables, Core Operators and Regular Expression Basics...

    By the end of this book, you should be well on your way to creating scripts that save you time, accomplish tasks with greater efficiency, and allow you to be even more productive on the job.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbdelfattah Benammi
    Release dateFeb 19, 2020
    ISBN9780463017999
    The Complete Powershell Training for Beginners
    Author

    Abdelfattah Benammi

    Hi, it's Benammi I'm a system and network administrator, I graduated from the Institute of Applied Technology in 2008 . My Principal function is to Ensuring the safety and the integrity of the system Computer and network devices for the team's work, for that and from time to time I use windows Powershell to manager computers, fix problems and setup devices like Cisco Asa, Router .... In 2015 I created a successful video training course about Windows Powershell. Marked up as a Best Selling Udemy course, so I decide to create a Kindle/Paper version of the course to help more students learning this powerful tool of Microsoft "the windows powershell"

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      The Complete Powershell Training for Beginners - Abdelfattah Benammi

      The Complete Powershell Training for Beginners

      Start from Absolute Zero, and Learn to Use the Windows Powershell as it was meant to be used

      By Abdelfattah Benammi

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2020 by Abdelfattah Benammi All rights reserved

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      First Printing: 2017

      ISBN 978-1-67810-461-0

      For permission requests, write to the publisher, at Attention: Permissions Coordinator, at the address below.

      Abdelfattah.ben@gmail.com

      Dedication,

      To my lovely students who enrolled in my Video training course and enjoyed it by leaving high number of positive reviews and who encouraged me to create this book version of the course

      1.    Before we Start

      1.1.                      What to expect from this book?

      Welcome to the course! This training is suited for you either if you work with both Windows or Linux, it will allow you to perform maintenance tasks on local and remote systems (including network devices). We will cover not only the basics of the PowerShell language (variables, strings, hash-tables, operators, providers and drivers) but also give you advices on the best way to think on solving problems with a consistent strategy for programming.  When more advanced you will be able to understand and code with the basic functionality of regular expressions.

      To introduce myself a little bit, I’m a system and network administrator graduated on 2008 at the Institute of Applied Technology and started using this amazing programming language back in 2009, since then I’ve been learning and improving on this knowledge.

      1.2.                      Introduction to PowerShell

      In order to access the Microsoft Windows Commandline we can go to Start -> Execute -> CMD. We can see that it was the first implementation of a Commandline interface, since then they are improving so the commands can be better remembered. Almost all tasks that we do in the windows graphic interface can as well be done in the Commandline interface. Just to give an example we will create a shared folder on the graphical interface and show how it would be mapped as a drive letter on the Commandline interface. Let’s go to Windows Explorer -> C: -> Create a New folder ->Right Click it -> On Sharing Tab click on Share button -> Choose Everyone -> Add -> Share Button. Now this folder is shared on the local network. It can be accessed locally on this URL: \\127.0.0.1\New Folder.

      In order to create a folder mapping it to a drive letter on the command line we can use this command: net use z: \\127.0.0.1 New Folder. Bear in mind that the drive letter you chose must have been available. Now the shared folder is mapped as driver. We can see that we need to have that command and its syntax in mind before doing this operation, from this simple example we can start to see how the old CMD was not so intuitive (logical). The new Microsoft PowerShell try to overcome this difficulty creating commands that are both logical and easy to remember as we will see in the next sections.

      2.    Orientation and Requirements: Getting Ready for PowerShell

      2.1.                      Discovering Windows PowerShell: Console Orientation

      Even being an advanced PowerShell user, we advise you read this section because here we present some fundamental knowledge to build on. PowerShell comes on 2 different choices: Console and ISE. In our last example we showed how to access the old Windows Command Line Interface (CMD), in order to access the new PowerShell, we need just to hit Start -> Type: PowerShell and the different options will be presented:

      Figure 1: Example different PowerShell options available.

      On this example it appears the two different versions twice because the computer is for architecture x64, hence, allowing to choose from x86 versions for specific purposes. As we open the PowerShell we can see how different the native console interface is different from the CMD.

      Figure 2: Side-by-side difference from PowerShell (left) and native CMD (right).

      Note that on the PowerShell Command line the prompt has a PS before the name of the folder we’re at, this not happens on the CMD console. We can also star PowerShell inside the CMD Console, in order to this, simply type: PowerShell -> ENTER. We can see that the color of the console doesn’t change but it shows the PS before the current folder just as if you

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