Instructor-led (classroom)
Advanced
5 days
English
This three- to five-day instructor-led is intended for IT professionals who are interested in furthering their skills in Windows PowerShell and administrative automation. The course assumes a basic working knowledge of PowerShell as an interactive command-line shell, and teaches students the correct patterns and practices for building reusable, tightly scoped units of automation.
Before attending this course, students must have:
This course is intended for administrators in a Microsoft-centric environment who want to build reusable units of automation, automate business processes, and enable less-technical colleagues to accomplish administrative tasks.
A 360-degree learning approach that you can adapt to your learning style
Engage and learn more with these live and highly-interactive classes alongside your peers
24/7 Teaching Assistance Keep engaged with integrated teaching
Projects provide you with sample work to show prospective employers.
Real-world projects relevant to what you’re learning throughout the program
A support team focused on helping you succeed alongside a peer community
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Tool Design
This module explains how to design tools and units of automation that comply with native PowerShell usage patterns.
Lessons
Tools do one thing
Tools are flexible
Tools look native
Lab : Designing a Tool
Design a tool
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the native shell patterns that a good tool design should exhibit
Start with a Command
This module explains how to start the scripting process by beginning in the interactive shell console.
Lessons
Why start with a command?
Discovery and experimentation
Lab : Designing a Tool
Start with a command
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the benefits of discovery and experimentation in the console
Discover and experiment with existing commands in the console
Build a Basic Function and Module
This module explains how to build a basic function and module, using commands already experimented with in the shell.
Lessons
Start with a basic function
Create a script module
Check prerequisites
Run the new command
Lab : Designing a Tool
Build a basic function and module
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Build a basic function
Create a script module
Run a command from a script module
Adding CmdletBinding and Parameterizing
This module explains how to extend the functionality of a tool, parameterize input values, and use CmdletBinding.
Lessons
About CmdletBinding and common parameters
Accepting pipeline input
Mandatory-ness
Parameter validation
Parmeter aliases
Lab : Designing a Tool
Adding CmdletBinding and Parameterizing
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of CmdletBinding and list common parameters
Parameterize a script’s input
Define parameters as mandatory
Define parameters as accepting pipeline input
Define parameter validation
Emitting Objects as Output
This module explains how to create tools that produce custom objects as output.
Lessons
Assembling information
Constructing and emitting output
Quick tests
Lab : Designing a Tool
Emitting objects as output
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of object-based output
Create and output custom objects from a function
An Interlude: Changing Your Approach
This module explains how to re-think tool design, using concrete examples of how it’s often done wrong.
Lessons
Examining a script
Critiquing a script
Revising the script
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the native patterns that a good tool design should exhibit
Redesign a script to meet business requirements and conform to native patterns
Using Verbose, Warning, and Informational Output
This module explains how to use additional output pipelines for better script behaviors.
Lessons
Knowing the six channels
Adding verbose and warning output
Doing more with verbose output
Informational output
Lab : Designing a Tool
Using Verbose, Warning, and Informational Output
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the six output channels in the shell
Write commands that use verbose, warning, and informational output
Run commands with extra output enabled
Comment-Based Help
This module explains how to add comment-based help to tools.
Lessons
Where to put your help
Getting started
Going further with comment-based help
Broken help
Lab : Designing a Tool
Comment-based help
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose and construction of comment-based help
Add comment-based help to a function
Identify causes of broken comment-based help
Handling Errors
This module explains how to create tools that deal with anticipated errors.
Lessons
Understanding errors and exceptions
Bad handling
Two reasons for exception handling
Handling exceptions in our tool
Capturing the actual exception
Handling exceptions for non-commands
Going further with exception handling
Deprecated exception handling
Lab : Designing a Tool
Handling errors
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the native patterns for handling errors in a command
Add error handling to a command
Run a command and observe error handling behaviors
Basic Debugging
This module explains how to use native PowerShell script debugging tools.
Lessons
Two kinds of bugs
The ultimate goal of debugging
Developing assumptions
Write-Debug
Set-PSBreakpoint
The PowerShell ISE
Lab : Designing a Tool
Basic debugging
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the tools used for debugging in PowerShell
Debug a broken script
Going Deeper with Parameters
This module explains how to further define parameter attributes in a PowerShell command.
Lessons
Parameter positions
Validation
Multiple parameter sets
Value from remaining arguments
Help messages
Aliases
More CmdletBinding
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of positional parameters
Describe additional parameter validation methods
Describe how to define multiple parameter sets
Describe other parameter definition options
Writing Full Help
This module explains how to create external help for a command.
Lessons
External help
Using PlatyPs
Supporting online help
“About” topics
Making your help updatable
Lab : Designing a Tool
Writing full help
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the advantages of external help
Create external help using PlatyPS and Markdown
Unit Testing Your Code
This module explains how to use Pester to perform basic unit testing.
Lessons
Sketching out the test
Making something to test
Expanding the test
Going further with Pester
Lab : Designing a Tool
Unit testing your code
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of unit testing
Write basic unit tests for PowerShell functions
Extending Output Types
This module explains how to extend objects with additional capabilities.
Lessons
Understanding types
The Extensible Type System
Extending an object
Using Update-TypeData
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of the ETS
Extend an existing object type
Analyzing Your Script
This module explains how to use Script Analyzer to support best practices and prevent common problems.
Lessons
Performing a basic analysis
Analyzing the analysis
Lab : Designing a Tool
Analyzing your script
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of Script Analyzer
Perform a basic script analysis
Publishing Your Tools
This module explains how to publish tools to public and private repositories.
Lessons
Begin with a manifest
Publishing to PowerShell Gallery
Publishing to private repositories
Lab : Designing a Tool
Publishing your tools
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the tool publishing process and requirements
Publish a tool to a repository
Basic Controllers: Automation Scripts and Menus
This module explains how to create controller scripts that put tools to use.
Lessons
Building a menu
Using UIChoice
Writing a process controller
Lab : Designing a Tool
Basic controllers
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of basic controller scripts
Write a simple controller script
Proxy Functions
This module explains how to create and use proxy functions.
Lessons
A proxy example
Creating the proxy base
Modifying the proxy
Adding or removing parameters
Lab : Designing a Tool
Proxy functions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of proxy functions
Create a simple proxy function
Working with XML Data
This module explains how to work with XML data in PowerShell.
Lessons
Simple: CliXML
Importing native XML
ConvertTo-XML
Creating native XML from scratch
Lab : Designing a Tool
Working with XML
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of XML within PowerShell
Use XML data within a PowerShell function
Working with JSON Data
This module explains how to using JSON data in PowerShell.
Lessons
Converting to JSON
Converting from JSON
Lab : Designing a Tool
Working with JSON data
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of JSON data within PowerShell
Use JSON data within a PowerShell function
Working with SQL Server Data
This module explains how to use SQL Server from within a PowerShell script.
Lessons
SQL Server terminology and facts
Connecting to the server and database
Writing a query
Running a query
Invoke-SqlCmd
Thinking about tool design patterns
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of SQL Server from within PowerShell
Write and run SQL Server queries
Design tools that use SQL Server for data storage
Final Exam
This module provides a chance for students to use everything they have learned in this course within a practical example.
Lessons
Lab problem
Break down the problem
Do the design
Test the commands
Code the tool
Lab : Final Exam
Lab one
Lab : Final Exam
Lab two
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Create PowerShell tools, using native design patterns, from business requirements.
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