Core Concepts of Powershell

Powershell Help System
Concept of Pipeline
Powershell PSProvider
Formatting System
Windows management Instrumentation
Filtering and Comparison
Arrays and Hashtable
Powershell Scripting
Scripting Overview

Get Started with Scripting Overview
Understanding the Use of Scope
Use the If Construct to make decisions
Use Do/While/Until to repeat the commands
Use foreach to enumerate objects
Use for Construct to repeat the commands
Find help for other scripting construct
Powershell Advanced Function

Use Powershell Advanced Functions
Specify functions capabilities
Specify usage for a functions
Create a function skeleton
Declare parameters in a function
Test the functions parameters
Write a main code for a function
Add verbose output to a function
Implement logging in function
Test completed functions
More capabilities for advanced function

Discover other advanced functions
Add debugging features to a function
Validate user input to a function
Add support for –confirm and –whatif
Handle Errors

Handling Errors
Add error handling to a function
Debugging

Debugging any errors
Deal with typos and syntax errors
Deal with mis-constructed constructs
Add trace code to debug logic errors
Debug wit psbreakpoints
Format Custom Views

Format Custom Views
Use default views as a starting point
Add a type to custom output object
Create and use the xml view file
Scripts and Manifest Modules

Use scripts and manifest modules
Turn script in to a script module
Create module manifest for multiple modules
Add a module-level setting variable
Writing Help

Write Help
Create Comment based help in module
Introduction to Desired state configuration

Understanding Desired State Configuration
Creating and deploying a DSC configuration
Understanding Pull and Push Deployment
Practical Implementation with Active Directory, Azure

Automating Active directory
Automating Azure IAAS with Powershell