Windows Server with Powershell: Preparing for Scripting

You already run PowerShell commands, and this short course turns them into scripts you can reuse. You learn the rules scripts need, the security that protects you, and then take one command all the way to a function. What the lectures coverBesides the main topics, you also work through: Understand the security goals of PowerShell; Parameterise the values that change in a command; Turn a command into a script in a lab, then compare it with the answers; Get an introduction to WMI and CIM.

How the course worksThe course follows the path from a single command to a reusable tool. First you learn the rules for variables and operators, then the security that decides whether a script may run, then you turn a changing value into a parameter. A lab with answers lets you practise the whole path yourself.

Inside the courseThe course is organised into these sections: Preparing for Scripting; Moving from Command to Script; Moving from Script to Function to Module. Lectures you will find include: Math Operators and Quotation Marks. The course runs about 1.

2 hours in 14 lectures. It is a focused, short bridge from commands to scripts. It does not cover advanced scripting, error handling or building complete modules.

Once you finish, you can take on a longer scripting course with a solid foundation.