PowerShell Scripting

Audience:
Students attending this course are responsible for implementing, configuring, and administering Networks.

Prerequisites:
 

• Required: HH9108 Active Directory Administration
• Recommended: HH9208 Implementing, Managing and Troubleshooting Windows Servers and Infrastructure
• Enterprise Administration Experience Including:
• • SMS
  • Exchange 2007
  • Active Directory

Course Outline:
 

Module 1 Introduction to Interface TT

Module 2 Introducing PowerShell and the IDE
 

• Welcome To The Gang
• The Basics
• What Is PowerShell
• Installation
• Starting PowerShell
• PowerShell Commands
• Cmdlets
• Shell Function Commands
• Script Commands
• Native Commands
• Enhancing Aliased Commands From Cmd.exe To Allow For All Switches
• PowerShell Snap-ins
• Exchange 2007
• SCOM
• Navigating in PowerShell
• Drives
• PowerShell Drives
• File System
• Registry
• HKLM and HKCU
• Get-psdrive
• Set-location
• Push-location
• Pop-location
• Aliases, Functions
• Create your own
• Disabling Aliases
• Parameters
• Ubiquitous Parameters
• Positional Parameters
• Help
• Variables
• Built-in
• Create your own
• Using with Aliases
• Profiles
• Four built in Profiles
• Customizing Profiles
• LAB
• Explore the Help Environment
• Use Cmdlets
• Create Custom Profile
• Work With Registry Data

Module 3 Introducing the .NET Framework.
 

• Overview of the .NET Framework
• What it is.
• What it does.
• How it works with PowerShell
• The .NET Class Library
• The Common Language Runtime
• MSIL Language
• Versions
• Object – based vs. Object Oriented
• Strongly Typing
• Custom Data Types
• Overview Of The PowerShell Related NameSpaces and Their Members
• System.Management.Automation
• System.Management.Automation.Provider
• Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
• System.Management.Automation.Host
• System.Management.Automation.Internal
• CmdletMetadataAttribute class
• CmdletAttribute class
• System.Management.Automation.Runspaces
• .NET Objects
• Properties
• Methods
• Inheritance
• LAB (Running commandlets to retrieve specific information about the .NET namespaces and members. Writing a script to determine the version of the .NET framework installed on the machine. Upgrading the version of the .NET Framework)

Module 4 Basic Programming Syntax with PowerShell
 

• Curly Braces
• Variables
• Parenthesis
• Foreach syntax
• While syntax
• Case syntax
• Collection syntax
• Write-Host
• Read-Host
• Classes
• Lists<T>
• Tab based object browsing
• Exploring the Pipeline
• Verb-Noun Syntax
• LAB (trying it all out)
• Declare A Person Class
• Write Script to Gather Information
• Add Folks To List
• Loop Through List
• Display List Of Folks

Module 5 The Command Line
 

• Getting Down Without The IDE
• Grouping Commanlets
• Customizing The PowerShell Command Window
• Customizing The PowerShell Profile
• Gathering Data About The Machine
• WMI Calls
• Storing in Variables
• Get-Set Properties On System Objects
• Adjusting Attributes
• LAB
• Using PowerShell Command Window Customize Look and Feel
• Create a Profile
• Gather System Information and Get and Set Properities

Module 6 Commandlets
 

• Overview of Commandlets
• Built In Commandlets
• Aliases
• Creating Custom Aliases
• Under Neath The Covers
• Custom Commandlets
• LAB
• Utilizing built in Commandlets Create and Configure and Activate DHCP
• Set TCP/IP Properties
• Create Custom Commandlets

Module 7 Object Based Scripting
 

• Planning
• Use Cases
• Algorithms
• Properties and Methods
• Classes
• Creating Custom Classes
• PowerShell Providers
• Creating Custom Providers
• Creating Windows PowerShell Hosting Applications
• LAB
• Create a Custom PowerShell Hosting Application to Deploy to machines to gather User Information.

Module 8 Syntax, Special Characters, Operators, Regular Expressions, I/O , XML and HTML
 

• Quotes
• Redirecting Output
• Command Continuation
• Special Characters
• Operator Precedence
• Operators Galore
• System.IO
• System.Text
• System.String
• Regular Expressions 101
• Pattern Matching
• XML 101
• Writing to XML
• Reading From XML
• Formatting XML
• Importing CSV and Converting To XML
• HTML
• OutPutting To HTML
• LAB (Working with all of the above)
• Write Script To Get Results
• Parse Results
• Find Matches of Result Set and CSV File
• Output To XML File
• OutPut To HTML File

Module 9 Collections
 

• Overview of Collections
• Arrays, Hashes, Generic Lists
• Collection Commands
• Collection of Objects
• WMI
• Collection of Phrases
• Count Property
• Filtering Collections
• LAB (Assemble a Collection of Data from various sources, parse it and put it into a series of logfiles.)

Module 10 Looping
 

• Parsing Data In Collections
• Where
• While
• ForEach
• Switch
• If
• LAB (Parse the Log files from the previous lab)

Module 11 Functions and The PipeLine
 

• Creating Custom Functions
• The PipeLine
• Passing Data
• DeBugging
• What-if
• LAB
• Create custom functions to gather WMI Data and pass it to functions to display web pages as data changes pages refresh.

Module 12 Writing Scripts
 

• Getting Down and Dirty and Coding
• Putting It all Together
• Planning
• Testing
• Script Center
• Script Control object
• Script Property
• Running from cmd.exe
• Exit code
• LAB
• Write 20 Scripts
• Link 5 of them as application

Module 13 Security
 

• Reality Check Time
• Introduction to Security for Power Shell
• Input Validation
• Securing the Development Environment
• Managing the Command Path
• Execution Policy
• Signing Scripts
• Creating A Self – Signed Certificate
• Using a Certificate To Sign A Script
• SecureString
• Credentials
• Common Sense
• Reminder that this is not a Security Class.
• LAB (Students will create a self signed certificate and then sign a script with it.)

Module 14 Application Specific Functionality
 

• SharePoint
• Exchange 2007
• SMS
• Active Directory

LAB (Students are given 5 tasks for each product and have a choice to do any number or combination of those as a final project.)