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Hey everyone, and welcome.

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I hope you are excited to start learning about the PowerShell language.

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Let's get started looking how to use PowerShell variables.

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The whole point of this course is to get you on the

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next part in your PowerShell journey.

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I'm assuming you already have been through some of the earlier courses in this

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track to know how to install and get started with PowerShell,

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so I'm assuming you already know how to run basic and simple commands.

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And if you can do that, you are ready to move on to this course.

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In order to really take advance of PowerShell and to really,

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really learn it, remember, it's a language,

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so you need to learn that language if you want to do even more with it.

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Variables are a key component of the PowerShell syntax,

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and so that's why we need to spend some time looking at how those things work.

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If you want to get the most out of this course,

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hopefully you will want to follow along.

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All you really need is just a Windows 10 Desktop.

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Presumably you will have installed PowerShell 7,

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whatever the current version is from Microsoft.

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I believe I'm using version 7.1.3,

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but really, for the fundamentals, it's really not going to

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matter that much what version you have,

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as long as it's PowerShell 7 something. I encourage you

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to grab the course download ZIP file.

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Even though I'm going to be walking through a lot of demos,

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you may want to run through those demos yourself just

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to see what the command look like.

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You can copy and paste them from the text file into

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PowerShell. Or, as an optional feature,

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you can install the free VS Code from Microsoft if you need to or

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care to, and then you can open up the demo files in VS Code and then

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select the lines that you want to run, press F8, and they will run in the PowerShell terminal in VS Code.