How do you make Windows administration more exciting? By automating all your repetitive tasks with PowerShell. After watching this terrific on-the-job training, you'll say good-bye to tedium. Don Jones shows you how to remotely command your entire enterprise from a single desktop by using advanced functions to create custom commands. While this training is not certification oriented, like all CBT Nuggets training, it gives you solid expertise in the topics it covers.

On-the-Job Training for Windows PowerShell V2, Advanced and New Capabilities Contents:

* Introduction
* Windows PowerShell v2 Overview
* PowerShell ISE and Other ISEs
* PowerShell Security
* Configuring Remoting and Managing Remote Sessions
* Using PowerShell Remoting
* Using Background Jobs
* Improved Debugging
* Improved Error Trapping and Handling
* Using the Data Language and Providing Internationalization
* Improvements to WMI and AD Management
* Advanced Functions: Creating Cmdlets in Scripts
* Modules: An Easier Way to Share Scripts
* New Built-in Variables and Operators
* Transactional Operators
* Responding to Eventsv
* Improvements to Key Cmdlets
* Overview of Key New Cmdlets

Here's what you'll learn in each video of On-the-Job Training for Windows PowerShell V2, Advanced and New Capabilities:

Video 1 - "Introduction" - overview of the series, what we'll be covering

Video 2 - "Windows PowerShell 2.0 Overview" - System requirements, running commands, using the pipeline, parameter binding, using help, using Get-Member

Video 3 - "PowerShell ISE and Other ISEs" - ISE as an interactive shell, ISE as a script editor, other script editors, advantages of using an ISE

Video 4 - "PowerShell Security" - Execution POlicy, Digital Certificates, Group Policy settings, path requirements, filename associations

Video 5 - "Configuring Remoting and Managing Remote Sessions" - About WinRM and WSMan, quick config, Group Policy settings, Workgroup configuration, creating and managing PSSession objects

Video 6 - "Using PowerShell Remoting" - 1:1 ad-hoc remoting, 1:1 remoting with a PSSession, 1:many ad-hoc remoting, 1:many remoting with PSSessions, working with the results of 1:many commands

Video 7 - "Using Background Jobs" - Invoke-Command and Get-WmiObject, Managing Jobs, Working with Job Results

Video 8 - "Improved Debugging" - The Step Debugger, Setting and Managing Breakpoints, Debugging with breakpoints, debugging in ISEs

Video 9 - "Improved Error Trapping and Handling" - Errors vs Exceptions, $ErrorActionPreference, Trap, Try...Catch

Video 10 - "Using the Data Language and Providing Internationalization" - Localization options, data sections, Here-Strings, combining techniques

Video 11 - "Improvements to WMI and AD Management" - Get-WmiObject, Invoke-WmiMethod, WMI Events, ADSI improvements, AD cmdlets in 2008 R2

Video 12 - "Advanced Functions: Creating Cmdlets in Scripts" - Starting with a Basic function, Moving to a Filtering function, Moving to an Advanced function, Adding comment-based help

Video 13 - "Modules: An Easier Way to Share Scripts" - Modules overview, binary module manifests, script modules, module management

Video 14 - "New Built-in Variables and Operators" - New built-in variables, new operators, Using these new elements

Video 15 - "Transactional Operations" - Operating system support, transactional file system, transactional registry

Video 16 - "Responding to Events" - What are events?, registering for events, interesting events, running commands in response to events

Video 17 - "Improvements to Key Cmdlets " - computerName additions, Select-String, Get-Member, others

Video 18 - "Overview of Key New Cmdlets " - Dozens and dozens of new cmdlets, major cmdlet categories, finding cmdlets, overview of most important new cmdlets


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