Hello everyone,
and welcome to my Pluralsight course on Installing and Running PowerShell.
My name is Jeff Hicks,
and I'm a longtime Pluralsight author, PowerShell advocate, and teacher.
You've probably seen some of my other PowerShell‑related classes in the library,
but this course is based on PowerShell 7,
which, as you'll see, it's a bit different than the
PowerShell you may have been used to in the past.
This module assumes that you are new to PowerShell or
wondering what all the fuss is about.
So let's dive into this so that you can appreciate what
PowerShell is and why it should matter to you.
PowerShell is, at its most essential, a command‑line driven management shell.
You type a command to get information or to get things done.
Don't worry if you don't understand what you see here on the slide.
If you stick with learning PowerShell,
this will all make sense, and you'll realize how easy it really is.
Even though the _____ I'm typing here looks complicated,
it's getting me the install operating system from three
servers and then showing me how long they have been
running. And none of this is scripting.
This is PowerShell in action.
In fact, today's PowerShell version 7 also runs cross‑platform.
I can even remotely connect using SSH and either run commands or
enter an interactive, remote PowerShell session.
In this example, wilma is an Ubuntu‑based machine. This is most definitely not the PowerShell you may have grown up with.