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Hi, everyone.

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This is Jeff Hicks, and welcome to my course, Putting PowerShell to Work.

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I'm a veteran IT pro and longtime PowerShell author, teacher, and mentor.

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I'm excited to tell you about my latest project with Pluralsight.

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This course is designed for IT pros beginning their journey learning PowerShell.

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My hope is that you'll realize how easy it is to use PowerShell,

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even without writing a single script.

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Specifically,

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this course is intended to demonstrate how to take

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advantage of the PowerShell paradigm, that is objects in the pipeline,

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to get things done that in the past would've taken a

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lot of arcane scripting knowledge.

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PowerShell is different.

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It's a management engine that you can interface

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with directly at a console prompt.

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I designed this course to get you up and running with basic

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PowerShell commands that will work with anything.

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It doesn't matter if you are managing services,

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virtual machines, or an Active Directory user account.

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Once you know a few key commands,

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you can discover what you need to know to put PowerShell to work.

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I'm a big believer in the teach someone to fish philosophy,

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and my course adheres to that principle.

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In this course you'll learn the fundamentals of working

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with objects in a PowerShell pipeline.

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You'll learn how to uncover the hidden parts of objects so that you

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can use them effectively in a PowerShell command.

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You'll see how easy it is to build a PowerShell command and realize

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that the same PowerShell concepts apply to everything.

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By the end of the course,

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you should be able to discover an object's properties and methods; know

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how to sort, group, select, and measure objects; work with objects one

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at a time with ForEach‑object; and learn how to efficiently apply

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filtering to your PowerShell work.

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When you're finished with this course,

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you should be able to run basic PowerShell commands from

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the prompt and understand why it works.

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Learning how to run PowerShell from a command prompt is a key step to

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eventually creating your own PowerShell scripts and modules.

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Are you ready? Let's get to work.