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PowerShell v3 New Features
View All CoursesSharpen your PowerShell skills and get a jumpstart on the features of version 3.0 in this advanced PowerShell training by MVP Jeff Hicks. This course will give you a thorough overview of shell, command, and remoting enhancements, as well as hands-on demos and sample commands for using PowerShell ISE. Automate more tasks and become even more efficient by learning all the impressive features in PowerShell v3.
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- Introduction
- Is This Course for You?
- Requirements
- Lab Setup
- Scenario
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- Introduction
- NET Framework 4.0
- The Windows Management Framework
- Supported Operating Systems
- What's in It for You?
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- Introduction
- Introducing Updateable Help
- Using Update-Help
- Updateable Help Limitations
- Saving Help
- Updating Help from Local Source
- Update Help – Demo
- Update Help
- Module Failures
- Save Help
- Get-Process Help Window
- Show-Command Display
- Navigating Parameter Sets
- Summary
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- Introduction
- Side By Side Engines
- Simplified Syntax
- Default Parameter Values
- Stream Redirection
- Operator Changes
- Tab Completion Enhancements
- New Accelerators
- Shell Improvement – Demo
- Summary
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- Introduction
- Auto Loading
- Module Logging
- Import-Module Enhancements
- Module Enhancements – Demo
- Auto Loading Preference Variable
- Module Information
- Turn On Logging
- Importing Modules From a Remote Computer
- Summary
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- Introduction
- Get-Command
- Get-Childitem Attributes
- New-PSDrive
- Select-Object Optimization
- Restart-Computer
- Export-CSV
- Invoke-Command
- Add-Computer
- Out-Gridview
- Summary
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- Introduction
- Job Changes
- Get-Job
- Start-Job
- Receive-Job
- Managing Jobs with a Filter
- New Job Feature – Demo
- Creating Jobs
- Receiving Jobs
- Using Begin and End Time
- Filtering
- Summary
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- Introduction
- New Job Definition
- Creating a Scheduled Job
- Modifying a Scheduled Job
- Managing a Scheduled Job
- Scheduled Jobs – Demo
- Creating a Job Trigger
- Registering a Job
- ScheduleJob Options
- Job Results
- Disabling a Job
- Unregister ScheduledJob
- Summary
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- Introduction
- New Features
- Recently Used Files
- New Command Pane
- Scripting Enhancements
- Integrated Show-Command
- PowerShell ISE – Demo
- Collapsible Regions
- Snippets
- Show-Command
- Auto Recovery
- Summary
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- Introduction
- PowerShell and the Cloud
- Invoke-WebRequest
- Invoke-RestMethod
- ConvertTo-Json
- New-WebServiceProxy
- Web Cmdlets Demo
- Invoke-WebRequest Cmdlet
- Invoke-RestMethod Cmdlet
- WebServiceProxy Cmdlet
- Summary
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- Introduction
- PowerShell Remoting
- Disconnected Sessions
- Remoting on Public Networks
- Remoting Enhancements – Demo
- Creating a New PSSession
- Disconnecting a Session
- Connecting to Remote Sessions
- Receiving a PSSession
- Summary
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- Introduction
- Constrained Remoting Configuration
- Session Configuration Commands
- Creating Session Configuration Files
- Language Mode
- New-PSSessionConfigurationFile
- Endpoints
- Removing an Endpoint
- Remote Session Configuration – Demo
- Setting Up Constrained End Points
- Summary
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- Introduction
- Infrastructure Management 2.0
- Introducing the World of CIM
- CIM Cmdlets
- CIM – Demo
- CimClass
- CimInstances Workaround
- Working With CimSessions
- Modifying Set-CimInstance
- CimMethods
- Associated Instances
- Summary
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- Introduction
- What is Workflow?
- Workflow vs Function
- Workflow Requirements
- Meet PowerShell Workflow
- Actions Not Cmdlets
- Built-In Parameters
- Workflow Variables
- Gotchas
- Summary
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- Introduction
- Workflow Design
- Parallelism
- ForEach -Parallel
- Sequence
- InlineScript
- Variables and Scope
- Workflow Syntax – Demo
- Simple Workflow
- Working With Parallel
- ForEach Workflow
- Sequence Workflow
- InlineScript Workflow
- Summary
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- Introduction
- Running a Workflow
- Workflow Jobs
- Persistence
- Suspend-Workflow
- Troubleshooting Workflow
- Running Workflow – Demo
- Using Persistence
- Checkpoint-Workflow
- Suspend Jobs
- Getting a Suspended Job From Another Session
- Workflow Tracing
- Summary
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- Introduction
- Workflow Sessions
- Invoke-AsWorkflow
- Workflow Session – Demo
- Workflow Endpoint
- Enter a Session Interactively
- Using Invoke-AsWorkflow
- Running a Cmdlet as a Workflow
- Summary
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- Introduction
- What's Next?
- PowerShell Web Access
- CDXML
- Windows 8/Windows Server 2012 Features
- More Resources
- Next Steps
Instructor
Jeff Hicks
Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies. He works today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. Jeff also writes the popular Prof. PowerShell column for MPCMag.com. His latest book is Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell 2.0: TFM 2nd Ed. (SAPIEN Press 2011). You can keep up with Jeff at http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog and twitter.com/jeffhicks.
