Powershell training offered by ACTE allows you to automate various maintenance and administration tasks. During this training, you will get complete knowledge of PowerShell scripting. This course enables you to learn various concepts like fundamentals of PowerShell, building blocks of PowerShell, shell script, etc. Training on PowerShell makes you manage different Microsoft products like SQL, Azure. This training prepares you for clearing the PowerShell certification exam.Start Learning with us ACTE Window PowerShell Classroom and Online Training Course.
PowerShell being a systems administration language first and foremost I would strongly encourage a DevOps/Automation Route. Learn PowerShell DSC, Chef,Puppet and cloud management modules from AWS and Azure. You may never write customer facing app in PowerShell but you may be able to write the code that deploys the infrastructure in PowerShell. Find a company that has or needs an automation strategy around their Microsoft environment. Automate basic tasks on your pc via powershell. However, as with most everything, PowerShell is tool in the bag probably not the only scripting language that you need to learn over the course of your career.
When Microsoft open-sourced PowerShell and announced its availability for other operating systems, it was not yet foreseeable what this would mean for Windows PowerShell. It is now clear the future belongs to PowerShell Core on all operating systems.
Though Windows PowerShell can be used for a wide range of different applications, for a beginner, the primary utility of PowerShell scripts will be in regard to systems automation related to:
- Working with batches of files, whether this be to automate backups or to control access to large numbers of files at once.
- PowerShell scripts are also very useful when adding and removing new users. With a carefully designed script, you can automate the process of adding network drives, updating security software, and granting a new user access to shared files.
- In order to perform these tasks, you’ll make use of several key features of PowerShell, such as cmdlets and aliases (which I will cover below).
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PowerShell is also used to automate processes, and tedious work as updating properties on SharePoint items. Currently I'm changing all my Pages libraries to pages libraries. All 2600+ of them. It can be done with Site Settings as well, but it will take a month to do it. My customer are not willing to pay for a month of work that can be done in ten hours. That's business value
You can use PowerShell from the command line for simple things (eg password reset) without having programming skills. So if you mean learning PowerShell for simple things from the command line, then no you need no programming background.
The uses of PowerShell include adding and deleting accounts, editing groups, and creating listings to view specific types of users or groups. You can also choose to use the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), a graphic user interface that lets you run commands and create or test scripts
Our courseware is designed to give a hands-on approach to the students in Window Powershell. The course is made up of theoretical classes that teach the basics of each module followed by high-intensity practical sessions reflecting the current challenges and needs of the industry that will demand the students’ time and commitment.
Yes, The future is here! Microsoft has integrated PowerShell functionality into almost all of their products. On top of that, .NET Core is now open source and cross-platform capable. I have run PowerShell on Linux distributions for a test; while it has some maturing to do it is already a promising idea that a single language with the capabilites of PowerShell could be used to manage your enterprise infrastructure regardless of what OS it is running. Third-party software companies are now creating PowerShell modules to ship with their products. The old days of cmd/batch scripts are nearing their end for most use cases, although there are times where older commands are better for the task at hand. I still call them from PowerShell because dealing with string manipulation is easier there too.
we would say in 3-6 months you could be pretty well versed in Powershell... But that requires that you actually use it. In my opinion it's not something you can just read a book and know, it's something that you have to make work... The longer your scripts get, the more functions you create and call, the more you dig for cmdlets and certain syntax etc etc. Eventually it all just comes second nature.
PowerShell is the built-in CLI for Microsoft Windows used by IT administrators and help desk workers to:
- Automate redundant tasks
- Manage IT environments at scale
- Access hard-to-find user information
THE FUTURE OF POWERSHELL
- PowerShell, Microsoft’s scripting platform, is significant for several reasons. It is critical to Microsoft’s strategy of reducing dependence on a GUI in Windows Server. It is also a key piece in automating IT administration, which is fundamental to business agility.
- The platform was invented by Microsoft’s Jeffrey Snover, now Technical Fellow and Lead Architect for the Enterprise Cloud Group. The evolution of PowerShell has gone hand in hand with the company’s broader strategy for Windows and Azure, guided by Snover as architect.
- PowerShell is everywhere in Azure Stack, Microsoft’s packaged version of Azure for running on-premises, and presumably in the online version of Azure as well. There are an “average 472 cmdlet calls” when a VM is created, according to Snover’s keynote at the recent PowerShell Europe conference in Hanover.
- The PowerShell team is now apparently part of the Azure Management Team within Microsoft.
- What is happening with PowerShell? The main thing to understand is that Microsoft has forked the platform. Windows PowerShell is the Windows-only version, while PowerShell Core is cross-platform on Windows, Mac and Linux. Windows PowerShell is based on the .NET Framework, while PowerShell Core is based on .NET Core.
- The situation with this is odd, in that Windows PowerShell is installed by default in Windows Server and the one that most people use; but PowerShell Core is the one that is under active development.
- Note though that PowerShell is modular, and although the Windows PowerShell engine is not being developed, new or enhanced modules will still appear. In fact, they are likely to run both on Windows PowerShell and on PowerShell Core. Like all forks, there will be some pain over compatibility versus using the latest features as the Core platform evolves.
- If you want to try PowerShell Core you can download it here. However, it is of limited use for day to day work unless you also install and activate a module called Windows PSModule Path which you can get from the PowerShell Gallery. This lets you use all your current Windows PowerShell modules, subject of course to compatibility.
So, what is next for PowerShell?
Snover’s ambition for the platform, he said, is to manage any server or service, from any client, running on any cloud (or on-premises, any hypervisor).
Much of what is interesting is not so much new features in PowerShell itself, but additional modules or other utilities.
- PS Swagger is helpful for creating modules: it will create a PowerShell module from a Swagger API (a popular standard for specifying RESTful APIs).
- CloudShell is a command shell for Azure which you can run from a web browser.
- Windows Admin Center, formerly known as Project Honolulu is a browser application for managing servers (and some desktops). You can open a PowerShell session directly from the browser. In addition, it is PowerShell that enables much of the other functionality.
- As for Microsoft’s plans for PowerShell Core, Snover refers to which sets out the company’s strategic investments. These include help system improvements, a GUI framework for the console perhaps like Curses on Linux, a mechanism for PowerShell to prompt for install (as in Bash) when a command is not found, but a module containing that command is known to exist, and Just Enough Administration (JAE) on Linux.
- At the PowerShell conference Principal Software Engineer Steve Lee talked about a PowerShell Standard Library, which itself targets .NET Standard 2.0, for module authors to use when creating modules so they will work cross-platform.
PowerShell and Microsoft’s platform
- One of the intriguing things about Microsoft’s evolution is its embrace of both Linux and cross-platform. PowerShell is one small part of this, but fits in with that strategy. We should no longer think of Microsoft’s platform as based on Windows, even though of course it mostly runs on Windows today. The OS is becoming less important as the company focuses on services and applications.
- The further implication is that cross-platform support is not just a nice-to-have feature for pieces like .NET Core and PowerShell Core, but essential for Microsoft itself as it integrates multiple operating systems in its cloud platform.
- While we tend to applaud cross-platform support as a good thing, it is not without pain. PowerShell is a case in point. Windows PowerShell is at the same time the current thing, and the thing that is no longer evolving.
PowerShell and IT admins
PowerShell is an essential skill for Windows IT admins. On Office 365, for example, there always seem to be things you can do in PowerShell that you cannot easily do though the GUI, and even where you can, it often pays to use PowerShell because you can script and automate common operations.
How admins benefit from open source PowerShell
- The good points of the recent changes to PowerShell include access to the open source project, a faster release cadence and community input.
- Another point in favor of PowerShell's move is that you can see the code. If you can read C#, you can use that skill to track down and report on bugs you encounter. If you have a fix for the problem, then you can submit it.
- Studying the code can give you insight into how PowerShell works. What it won't explain is why PowerShell works the way it does. Previously, Microsoft MVPs and very few other people had access to Windows PowerShell code, but with the PowerShell Core code now available to more people, it can only make it a better product in the long run.
- A faster release cadence implies quicker resolution of bugs and new features on a more regular basis. The downside to a faster release cadence is that you'll have to keep upgrading your PowerShell instances to get the bug fixes and new features.
- Of the Microsoft product teams, the Windows PowerShell team is one of the most accessible. They've been very active in the PowerShell community since the PowerShell v1 beta releases by engaging with users and incorporating their feedback. The scope of that dialog has expanded; anyone can report bug fixes or request new features.
- The downside is the expectation that the originator of the request is expected to implement the changes. If you follow the project, you'll see there are just a handful of community members who are heavily active.
Shortcomings of the PowerShell Core project
This leads us to the disadvantages now that PowerShell is an open-source project. In my view, the problems are:
- it's an open source project;
- there's no overarching vision for the project;
- the user community lacks an understanding of what's happening with PowerShell; and
- gaps in the functionality.