Hey, everyone,
and welcome to the next part of your PowerShell journey. With this module,
you'll see how easy it is to find and run PowerShell
commands and start getting things done.
Now before we get too far,
let me give you a quick overview of what you'll need
to get the most out of this course.
You don't really need anything beyond an up‑to‑date Windows 10 desktop.
If you haven't done so already,
you'll want to install the latest stable PowerShell 7 release from GitHub.
I'm not planning on having you do anything drastic,
but to keep things moving along, I'm hoping that you have
administrator access to your desktop and that you can run
an elevated PowerShell session.
I'll be running almost all my demos elevated for the sake of simplicity.
Of course, if you can't or choose not to,
you are welcome to set up your own Windows 10 virtual
machine using whatever technology you'd like.
Or you might even try the Window Sandbox feature,
although this will most likely require you to install
PowerShell 7 every time you start it up.
But you have some options.
As I mentioned,
I'll have a lot of demos. My demo files are part of
the course material download,
which you should be able to get from this course's
web page in the Pluralsight app.
Now if you want to try the commands,
open the files in a script editor like VS Code. Now I've
annotated the files with comments, making them easier for
you to use. One important note.
The files are not script files that you run.
Instead,
you'll open the file, select the demo line or lines that you
want to run, and then run that selection. Or simply copy and
paste them into your console.
Feel free to pause the course while you go ahead and get everything set up. Ready? All right, let's go.