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Hello everyone,

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and welcome to my Pluralsight course on Installing and Running PowerShell.

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My name is Jeff Hicks,

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and I'm a longtime Pluralsight author, PowerShell advocate, and teacher.

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You've probably seen some of my other PowerShell‑related classes in the library,

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but this course is based on PowerShell 7,

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which, as you'll see, it's a bit different than the

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PowerShell you may have been used to in the past.

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This module assumes that you are new to PowerShell or

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wondering what all the fuss is about.

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So let's dive into this so that you can appreciate what

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PowerShell is and why it should matter to you.

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PowerShell is, at its most essential, a command‑line driven management shell.

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You type a command to get information or to get things done.

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Don't worry if you don't understand what you see here on the slide.

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If you stick with learning PowerShell,

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this will all make sense, and you'll realize how easy it really is.

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Even though the _____ I'm typing here looks complicated,

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it's getting me the install operating system from three

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servers and then showing me how long they have been

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running. And none of this is scripting.

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This is PowerShell in action.

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In fact, today's PowerShell version 7 also runs cross‑platform.

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I can even remotely connect using SSH and either run commands or

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enter an interactive, remote PowerShell session.

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In this example, wilma is an Ubuntu‑based machine. This is most definitely not the PowerShell you may have grown up with.