Training: Windows PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking

Ref. 55039BC
Duration:
5
 days
Exam:
Not certifying
Level:
Intermediate

Description

This course is intended for IT professionals who are interested in furthering their skills in Windows PowerShell and administrative automation. The course assumes a basic working knowledge of PowerShell as an interactive command-line shell, and teaches students the correct patterns and practices for building reusable, tightly scoped units of automation.

Participant profiles

  • Administrators in a Microsoft-centric environment who want to build reusable units of automation, automate business processes, and enable less-technical colleagues to accomplish administrative tasks

Objectives

  • Describe the correct patterns for building modularized tools in Windows PowerShell
  • Build highly modularized functions that comply with native PowerShell patterns
  • Build controller scripts that expose user interfaces and automate business processes
  • Manage data in a variety of formats
  • Write automated tests for tools
  • Debug toolsager

Prerequisites

  • Experience at basic Windows administration
  • Experience using Windows PowerShell to query and modify system information
  • Experience using Windows PowerShell to discover commands and their usage
  • Experience using WMI and/or CIM to query system information

Course content

Module 1: Tool Design
  • Lesson 1: Tools do one thing
  • Lesson 2: Tools are flexible
  • Lesson 3: Tools look native
Module 2: Start with a Command
  • Lesson 1: Why start with a command?
  • Lesson 2: Discovery and experimentation
Module 3: Build a Basic Function and Module
  • Lesson 1: Start with a basic function
  • Lesson 2: Create a script module
  • Lesson 3: Check prerequisites
  • Lesson 4: Run the new command
Module 4: Adding CmdletBinding and Parameterizing
  • Lesson 1: About CmdletBinding and common parameters
  • Lesson 2: Accepting pipeline input
  • Lesson 3: Mandatory-ness
  • Lesson 4: Parameter validation
  • Lesson 5: Parmeter aliases
Module 5: Emitting Objects as Output
  • Lesson 1: Assembling information
  • Lesson 2: Constructing and emitting output
  • Lesson 3: Quick tests
Module 6: Interlude – Changing Your Approach
  • Lesson 1: Examining a script
  • Lesson 2: Critiquing a script
  • Lesson 3: Revising the script
Module 7: Using Verbose, Warning, and Informational Output
  • Lesson 1: Knowing the six channels
  • Lesson 2: Adding verbose and warning output
  • Lesson 3: Doing more with verbose output
  • Lesson 4: Informational output
Module 8: Comment-Based Help
  • Lesson 1: Where to put your help
  • Lesson 2: Getting started
  • Lesson 3: Going further with comment-based help
  • Lesson 4: Broken help
Module 9: Handling Errors
  • Lesson 1: Understanding errors and exceptions
  • Lesson 2: Bad handling
  • Lesson 3: Two reasons for exception handling
  • Lesson 4: Handling exceptions in our tool
  • Lesson 5: Capturing the actual exception
  • Lesson 6: Handling exceptions for non-commands
  • Lesson 7: Going further with exception handling
  • Lesson 8: Deprecated exception handling
Module 10: Basic Debugging
  • Lesson 1: Two kinds of bugs
  • Lesson 2: The ultimate goal of debugging
  • Lesson 3: Developing assumptions
  • Lesson 4: Write-Debug
  • Lesson 5: Set-PSBreakpoint
  • Lesson 6: The PowerShell ISE
Module 11: Going Deeper with Parameters
  • Lesson 1: Parameter positions
  • Lesson 2: Validation
  • Lesson 3: Multiple parameter sets
  • Lesson 4: Value from remaining arguments
  • Lesson 5: Help messages
  • Lesson 6: Aliases
  • Lesson 7: More CmdletBinding
Module 12: Writing Full Help
  • Lesson 1: External help
  • Lesson 2: Using PlatyPs
  • Lesson 3: Supporting online help
  • Lesson 4: “About” topics
  • Lesson 5: Making your help updatable
Module 13: Unit Testing Your Code
  • Lesson 1: Sketching out the test
  • Lesson 2: Making something to test
  • Lesson 3: Expanding the test
  • Lesson 4: Going further with Pester
Module 14: Extending Output Types
  • Lesson 1: Understanding types
  • Lesson 2: The Extensible Type System
  • Lesson 3: Extending an object
  • Lesson 4: Using Update-TypeData
Module 15: Analyzing Your Script
  • Lesson 1: Performing a basic analysis
  • Lesson 2: Analyzing the analysis
Module 16: Publishing Your Tools
  • Lesson 1: Begin with a manifest
  • Lesson 2: Publishing to PowerShell Gallery
  • Lesson 3: Publishing to private repositories
Module 17: Basic Controllers: Automation Scripts and Menus
  • Lesson 1: Building a menu
  • Lesson 2: Using UIChoice
  • Lesson 3: Writing a process controller
Module 18: Proxy Functions
  • Lesson 1: A proxy example
  • Lesson 2: Creating the proxy base
  • Lesson 3: Modifying the proxy
  • Lesson 4: Adding or removing parameters
Module 19: Working with XML Data
  • Lesson 1: Simple: CliXML
  • Lesson 2: Importing native XML
  • Lesson 3: ConvertTo-XML
  • Lesson 4: Creating native XML from scratch
Module 20: Working with JSON Data
  • Lesson 1: Converting to JSON
  • Lesson 2: Converting from JSON
Module 21: Working with SQL Server Data
  • Lesson 1: SQL Server terminology and facts
  • Lesson 2: Connecting to the server and database
  • Lesson 3: Writing a query
  • Lesson 4: Running a query
  • Lesson 5: Invoke-SqlCmd
  • Lesson 6: Thinking about tool design patterns
Module 22: Final Exam
  • Lesson 1: Lab problem
  • Lesson 2: Break down the problem
  • Lesson 3: Do the design
  • Lesson 4: Test the commands
  • Lesson 5: Code the tool

Documentation

  • Digital course material included

Lab / Exercises

  • Microsoft Labs Online

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Additional information

  • Course developed by the Microsoft Community
Prix de l'inscription
CHF 3'650.-
Inclus dans ce cours
  • Training provided by a certified trainer
  • 180 days of access to Microsoft labs
  • Documentation in digital format
  • Achievement badge

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