1 00:00:00,940 --> 00:00:04,130 Now I know some people have never been near a command prompt of 2 00:00:04,130 --> 00:00:07,860 any type, and for Windows admins that kind of makes sense, the 3 00:00:07,860 --> 00:00:09,590 product is called Windows after all, 4 00:00:09,590 --> 00:00:12,800 but still, let me show you how easy it is to get into a 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,240 PowerShell session and move around. 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:15,610 Okay, 7 00:00:15,610 --> 00:00:19,950 so back in Windows 10, running PowerShell 7 is really no different than 8 00:00:19,950 --> 00:00:23,240 any other application that you've installed in Windows. 9 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:28,670 I can come here to the little Start icon and find it. Now, 10 00:00:28,670 --> 00:00:30,810 because I've just recently used it, you know, 11 00:00:30,810 --> 00:00:34,750 I have it up here, I can just click it and it will actually run it, it's 12 00:00:34,750 --> 00:00:39,300 not that hard. Close that. I could also come here to the search box and 13 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:43,740 start typing pwsh. You can see it pops right up. 14 00:00:43,740 --> 00:00:49,570 I can go ahead and open it there. Or, I can do the run box 15 00:00:49,570 --> 00:00:54,440 and do pwsh, and again, it also will run. 16 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,760 So that's all very easy to do. Now, one thing that I tend to do, 17 00:00:58,760 --> 00:00:59,460 though, 18 00:00:59,460 --> 00:01:03,120 and which I don't think I've done on this system, is I'm going to do two things. 19 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:03,840 One, 20 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,030 I'm going to come back up here and I'm going to pin 21 00:01:07,030 --> 00:01:09,530 this to the Start menu so it's here, 22 00:01:09,530 --> 00:01:16,840 and I'm going to go here and also I want to pin it to the task bar. 23 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:22,340 That way I also have it down here, and I can get to it whenever I need it. 24 00:01:22,340 --> 00:01:28,440 So now I can come here and I can click it and run. 25 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,830 So, what I want to now here though is I want to show you how 26 00:01:30,830 --> 00:01:33,500 to customize that because I'm betting that is kind of hard 27 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:36,040 for you to see on the screen. 28 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:41,140 So we'll come up here to this little menu, and we'll come here to 29 00:01:41,140 --> 00:01:45,010 Properties. Now a lot of these are set by default and most of them 30 00:01:45,010 --> 00:01:52,220 you can keep. I like using the Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V for copy and paste, so 31 00:01:52,220 --> 00:01:56,960 I'm going to go ahead and turn that on. For the font, I'm going to 32 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,090 bump my font up to, let's say 24, make it nice and big, 33 00:02:01,090 --> 00:02:05,070 nice and easy to read, especially on high‑resolution monitors. 34 00:02:05,070 --> 00:02:08,440 That's a nice thing to do these days. 35 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,240 Now for the layout, 36 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,360 I'm going to kind of keep it 120 characters across because lots of 37 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,860 information that we're going to get in PowerShell. And we'll try 38 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:20,490 the height, I guess I'll leave that at 30. We'll see how that 39 00:02:20,490 --> 00:02:23,030 goes. Now colors, if you want, 40 00:02:23,030 --> 00:02:26,550 you can change the colors. If you wanted to change the 41 00:02:26,550 --> 00:02:29,250 background or the foreground colors, 42 00:02:29,250 --> 00:02:31,770 I'm going to kind of leave mine the dark color. 43 00:02:31,770 --> 00:02:34,320 Eventually I'll make it full screen and it will be a little bit easier to 44 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,590 read. And then the last thing you can do here is there are some other 45 00:02:37,590 --> 00:02:42,730 customizations that you can do for the terminal, but I'm going to leave 46 00:02:42,730 --> 00:02:46,340 those alone. And let's just click OK, 47 00:02:46,340 --> 00:02:48,600 and I'll double‑click up there. So hopefully that 48 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,080 is a little bit easier to read. 49 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:57,800 Those settings should be maintained, so if I close this and open this up again, 50 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,140 I get the same settings. We'll just kind of maximize the window there. 51 00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:07,180 Now, one thing I want to point out is that there are two ways, 52 00:03:07,180 --> 00:03:09,880 like with everything in Windows, of running 53 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,040 applications. You can run it non‑elevated, 54 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:18,210 which is what I've done now. I'm logged on as artd, and you can see that he's 55 00:03:18,210 --> 00:03:23,410 just a regular user, and I know that because the title bar just shows me 56 00:03:23,410 --> 00:03:30,150 PowerShell 7. To run in an elevated session, any of the PowerShell 7 57 00:03:30,150 --> 00:03:34,820 shortcuts, there's an option here to Run as Administrator. This will give you 58 00:03:34,820 --> 00:03:39,990 the UAC prompt, so go ahead and say Yes. 59 00:03:39,990 --> 00:03:43,020 Now, this is technically a slightly different shell, 60 00:03:43,020 --> 00:03:47,540 so I'm going to go back here and reset my properties. 61 00:03:47,540 --> 00:03:49,540 Let's set that that way. 62 00:03:49,540 --> 00:03:57,440 Let's make the font 24, and I think that's all I need. 63 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:01,230 Now, I'm still logged on as artd, I can kind of prove 64 00:04:01,230 --> 00:04:03,670 that. Let's type a whoami command, 65 00:04:03,670 --> 00:04:06,880 So I'm still logged on as art, but notice up here, the 66 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,440 title bar now shows Administrator. 67 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,790 There are some things that you'll be doing in PowerShell that will 68 00:04:13,790 --> 00:04:17,890 require you to run in an elevated session, if you're going to be 69 00:04:17,890 --> 00:04:21,730 manipulating the registry or accessing certain things with PowerShell 70 00:04:21,730 --> 00:04:25,740 remoting, eventually you'll need to be running as administrator. And 71 00:04:25,740 --> 00:04:30,650 the way that you can tell is look for that Administrator keyword up 72 00:04:30,650 --> 00:04:32,540 there in the title bar. 73 00:04:32,540 --> 00:04:39,310 All right, so that is a quick look at configuring PowerShell. 74 00:04:39,310 --> 00:04:45,200 Let's go ahead now, and let me clear the screen, and let's, well, let me 75 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:55,000 clear the screen the right way by typing cls, and let me show you some ways that you can navigate and work with PowerShell 7.