| Book Author - Jeff Hicks |
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| Common PowerShell commands & their aliases |
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| Skillshare - The Advanced PowerShell Scripting Crash Course 2019 |
| 01 - Main Introduction |
| 02 - Introduction & PowerShell Integrated Scripting Enviornment |
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Execution policies: Restricted - No scripts can be run, only commands from PowerShell prompt can be executed. for compliance reasons AllSigned - Only scripts that are signed by a trusted publisher are allowed to be executed RemoteSigned - All downloaded scripts must be signed by a trusted publisher before they are allowed to be executed. Unrestricted - There are no restrictions Bypass- No scripts are blocked and no warnengs or prompts are provided. Undefined - This removes all currently configured execution policies fromm the syste, with the exectopion of those configured by Group Policy. |
| get-executionpolicy, click green play button |
| Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted |
| 03 - Variables in powershell Edited Variable names in PowerShell begin with a $ symbol $name="mark" GetType() method Notes on Ch3 |
| 04 - Arrays & Hashtables edited An array is a collection of elements under a single variable name elements can be of different data types an index of an array always starts with zero To create an array, enter $foo = New-Object system.Collections.ArrayList An array always starts with an index of Zero "0" To add an item to an array $array.Add("some value") To remove an item from an array $array.Remove("some value") $array.Indexof("value") will output the index or position of the value. Moving on to Hashtables Hashtables are similar to arrays except that you are allowed to define not only its value but the key as well Contains a key and a value To create hashtable $cute = @{"Name"="Nicole"} Adding multiple key value pair, separated by a semi colon: $F1Team=@{"Name"="RedBull";"Racer"="Sebastian";"UniformColor"="NavyBlue";} Note: generate exercises to involving hashtabes & arrays |
| 05 - CMDlets. Get-Help. type 'get help' and than whatever it is you are working on. Type "get-help get-childitem" get-help get-alias -examples get-childitem - is the same as pwd(print working directory) get-location - shows the path get-alias - prints all the shortcuts used in powershell set-alias -Name see -Value Get-Location (now see is the same as get-location) get-localgroup (prints all the local groups on your computer) get-localgroupmember -Name administrators (lists administrators) Write-host "Hello there" write-host "Hello there" -foregroundcolor (forgroundcolor is a flag) write-host "Hello there" -foregroundcolor DarkBlue -backgroundcolor Yellow write-output (same as above, but can pipe to other commandlets) Write-output | get-member read-host = "Hi there, what city is mars" $planet = read-host = "Hi there, what city is mars" (this will store the prompted input to the variable "planet") New-Item text1.txt New-Item text2.txt New-Item text3.txt New-Item text4.txt $data = Get-Content C:\users\username\contentfile.txt (copies all the data in the text file into variable $data) |
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| Set-LocalUser -Name adambertram -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString "P@ssw0rd" -AsPlainText -Force) |
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