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Hey, everyone,

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and welcome to the next part of your PowerShell journey. With this module,

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you'll see how easy it is to find and run PowerShell

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commands and start getting things done.

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Now before we get too far,

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let me give you a quick overview of what you'll need

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to get the most out of this course.

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You don't really need anything beyond an up‑to‑date Windows 10 desktop.

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If you haven't done so already,

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you'll want to install the latest stable PowerShell 7 release from GitHub.

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I'm not planning on having you do anything drastic,

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but to keep things moving along, I'm hoping that you have

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administrator access to your desktop and that you can run

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an elevated PowerShell session.

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I'll be running almost all my demos elevated for the sake of simplicity.

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Of course, if you can't or choose not to,

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you are welcome to set up your own Windows 10 virtual

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machine using whatever technology you'd like.

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Or you might even try the Window Sandbox feature,

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although this will most likely require you to install

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PowerShell 7 every time you start it up.

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But you have some options.

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As I mentioned,

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I'll have a lot of demos. My demo files are part of

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the course material download,

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which you should be able to get from this course's

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web page in the Pluralsight app.

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Now if you want to try the commands,

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open the files in a script editor like VS Code. Now I've

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annotated the files with comments, making them easier for

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you to use. One important note.

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The files are not script files that you run.

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Instead,

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you'll open the file, select the demo line or lines that you

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want to run, and then run that selection. Or simply copy and

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paste them into your console.

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Feel free to pause the course while you go ahead and get everything set up. Ready? All right, let's go.