PowerShell Master Class - PowerShell Fundamentals

The first module in the PowerShell Master Class. This is a multi-part class that should be viewed as part of its playlist, • PowerShell Master Class
Materials for the class available at github.com/johnthebrit/PowerS...
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:54 Agenda
0:02:56 PowerShell Fundamentals
0:03:27 Before PowerShell
0:08:05 PowerShell Introduction
0:14:10 PowerShell Language and Syntax
0:15:56 PowerShell Availability and Versions
0:25:35 Installing PowerShell Core and VSCode
0:35:47 Windows PowerShell vs PowerShell Core
0:38:30 Check PowerShell Version
0:43:05 Easy PowerShell Access
0:48:00 Using ISE
0:50:38 Using VSCode
0:52:10 Using the Interactive Shell
0:55:12 Non-PowerShell commands in PowerShell
0:57:05 Aliases
0:58:17 Navigating with PowerShell
1:00:33 Tab support
1:01:33 PowerShell Modules
1:08:34 PowerShell Help
1:10:55 Coming up next and GitHub Repo

[@adeptec]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

Very kind, thanks!

[@kevinrambo]

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[@charlessteiger3173]

I know, right?! How could someone ever downvote this course?

[@jeff29922]

I'm a Microsoft FTE and I've sat through quite a bit of internal (and external) training. John is a fantastic instructor!

[@AyalaStudios]

I've watched plenty of your latest Azure content and have been able to pass many of the Fundamental and Associate level Microsoft Exams. I am now a System Administrator that is working on getting into a more Azure cloud based role. The most asked question from the colleagues I work with is "Do you PowerShell?" I am so thankful that you've put together this training that is still completely relevant 5 years later! Your training style is by far the top 3, if not the best training I've utilized. The way you start from the foundation and work your way up to the high level overview is nothing short of amazing. I simply cannot thank you enough John! You've done the industry - but more importantly the world a huge solid with your contributions! Many thanks and I wish you many blessing.

[@TheMarkGross]

I know it is a couple years but I found this very useful even today.

[@henriquealexandreh]

Oh my gosh! After watching dozens of Azure resources and certification related videos I find an entire playlist of PowerShell videos here. What can you not do John? Hero!!! Thanks a ton!

[@thesuperiorman8342]

Thank you for putting up a whole playlist. I can't thank you enough.

[@baka12345]

Thank you! I've been struggling to understand PowerShell so this was a great introductory to the fundamentals and great examples of PS. Easy to understand and I'm looking forward to watching through all your PS videos.

[@madezra64]

I had no idea how powerful and functional PowerShell really was until recently. Really glad I'm taking the time to learn it now and your video helped!

[@Ramms23]

John, awesome class about PowerShell. I couldn't hold myself to subscribe and like your video. Great training. You are a PowerShell guru

[@nordy2010]

Thank you so much for putting this together, John! This is really great content, and a wonderful contribution to the community!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks, glad it’s useful.

[@MarshallBarker]

Thank you John, this was a great refresher run through for the fundamentals. Much appreciated.

[@NTFAQGuy]

My pleasure.

[@dougheaton1881]

I agree with Kevin. Thank you for this content. Happy to have you as my MCSE instructor on Udemy.

[@thorlocks7818]

Thank you. I've been struggling with some basic stuff tied to powershell and have been wanting to rebuild my learning environment, so I can rebuild my powershell foundational knowledge.

[@rogerosb2u]

John, thank you for putting together this top-notch training. I have learned so much from your videos! Stellar job, sir.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thank you!

[@jonathanpreetham1915]

Hi John, This video has really helped me out, much appreciated.

[@myfunnyval1]

John, I love scripting. As a blind developer, I feel completely at home in the power shell. Just spotted your tutorial, and looking out for more now.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Glad it was helpful! Good luck!

[@Chiprohydrate]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks, enjoy!

[@mgmcd1]

Thanks so much for posting this playlist. You’re a brilliant instructor.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Very kind, thank you.

[@magepa]

John, Thank you for all your efforts. I'm preparing myself for a career path change and your knowledge is helping me way too much. with your Master Classes I'm not starting from zero

[@NTFAQGuy]

Best of luck!

[@phunghm]

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[@senthilramalingam9500]

One of the best...Thanks for sharing the knowledge

[@maddrojas]

Great videos! Super helpful! Thank you John

[@Anonymous5611k]

thank you for creating a new series for the new year.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Happy New Year :-)

[@zt.5677]

John, thank you for this Class. Great work. And I mean the entire Class not just this episode.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thank you

[@petedepledge3359]

John, I've been using the resources you provide since the days of the NTFAQ and the Windows NT and 2000 answer book. Now I need to get up to speed with PowerShell, it makes sense that I look for your material on the subject. Thanks again for a great resource.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Excellent, glad to help! And wow I'm old :-D

[@michaelsvensson8270]

Great thank you! Perfect voice for educating and showing all theory so good!

[@allanrabindran5695]

A perfect voice and intonation for training.. Thank you so much Sir.. How come ppl dislike his videos..

[@mariafrasco6541]

Thank you .. I will watch this multiple times

[@iamdedlok]

Wow another great playlist for me to gulp down this week! :D Thanks for the content John! I am speeding through the videos at 2.5x ... just to identify new things/ gap in concepts!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Nice :)

[@phanireddy6367]

1 million thanks to you sir. You are the best

[@alanspicertelecom]

Thank you very much, John!

[@benh9350]

This is really great, thank you!

[@chaminda512]

Very helpful and informative. Thank you so much. This is the best PS fundamental Video available in YT. And the best series to start from the 0

[@NTFAQGuy]

Very kind, thank you!

[@shnzshn]

Thats exactly how you make an educational video..Excellent!!! You answered every question I had in my mind. I took no time to like and subscribe your channel and first ever comment on any video.. Thank you.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Awesome, glad it was useful.

[@sdcf334]

Amazing tutorials! Keep it up :)

[@ibrahimabdeltawab6418]

So informative! Thanks so much ❤

[@negocios0rsk]

Hi John... great PowerShell lessons! Thank you! I'm learning PowerShell to sort through a big mess of 30k+each photographs on my Win10 laptop. The big mess was created by ME with help from Picasa, Canon, iCloud, DropBox. OneDrive and every other company that tempted me to use their photo management / storage capabilities over the last 17 years. I started by searching for on-line methods for doing specific tasks from places like stackoverflow. Now, I'm trying to learn what those expressions mean with the hope of customizing them. Then, I found your master class. I believe I will use only a small fraction of PowerShell capabilities to diagnose, find duplicates, restructure, purge... etc. (And, I'll work on a duplicate copy of the whole mess.) I have: duplicate filenames in multiple directories same photo... duplicate filenames in multiple directories different photo... same photo in multiple directories different filename... all that and more! Oddly, I recall in DOS-world there was a 3rd party utility (XTREE GOLD) that did something like this. Hey developers out there... I bet my requirements are not unique! I'm three videos in... and have had several AHAHs and a few ideas. Thanks, again!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Nice good luck! Sounds like a fun project. Remember you can compare arrays :)

[@MaxBilimoria]

what a great vid.....so helpful(Y)

[@luisalbertojimenez4995]

Thank you for sharing this great knowledge for free. It helps me a lot. Thanks

[@NTFAQGuy]

Great to hear. Good luck.

[@JAGADEESANBOnNet]

Thanks a lot John for this useful video!!

[@bingomutant1]

my PS is weak so been looking forward to getting the time to do this course and ** big thankyou ** for putting it together.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Glad you like it!

[@melbbb5673]

thank you for sharing your expertise!

[@sateg]

Great video, i spent 3h+ (i had to pause and try by myself) very good content, definetelly will continue to see your next videos

[@NTFAQGuy]

Great to hear, thanks

[@vharat123]

thanks for the full course John..

[@NTFAQGuy]

Very welcome

[@djadaloui9881]

thank you for sharing the knowledge.

[@RPG_ash]

Very cool video. Presented very well. Thanks

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks!

[@nogadev]

Instead of spamming the tab key, press ctrl+space.

[@catocall7323]

Holy Fajoli! This alone should be the first thing anyone learning powershell should be told. Why is this not talked about more? Thank You!

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THANKSS!! wauuuw why nobody tell about this?!

[@BobAg_]

This should be PowerShell 101!

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@@Aat-zz2de because nobody want you to learn

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you the real mvp :'D

[@martinpapadopoulos2214]

Monad and cognitive distance - designed by an expert that know his/her stuff. Well done even if it's 2020 already i really enjoyed this tutorial. Cheers

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[@MorrisFrasier]

Great course...Thank you for your efforts

[@NTFAQGuy]

I appreciate that. Thank you

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Thank you, that was really helpful

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[@hadireg]

Great class! Thanks John!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Very welcome

[@dmkumar5248]

Hey John, i saw videos of VMM initially and i read VMM2k16 n 2k12 awesome. I will go thru these PS videos.. fabulous contribution. I like couple of body builders with intelligence ..you are one of them. 😃

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thank you, glad they are useful!

[@JuanixTV]

Keep up the good work!

[@jackod2479]

Thank you John, Great help.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Glad to help

[@akshayparsai5815]

Thank you for great video

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks 👍

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Thank you so much for this. I also love your books..

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thank you

[@jatinnandwani6678]

Amazing.. thanks again

[@gladmanc]

I found that Tab Completion was disabled by default in VS Code, you need to enable it in the settings.

[@s.baskaravishnu22]

Many thanks for giving code

[@Houston123ABC]

This is outstanding.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks!

[@MrDavejkings]

Hi John. Thank you for publishing this. I'm halfway through your Azure Identity Management courses on Pluralsight, then this will be next.

[@pipotzescu]

thank you

[@petercc49]

Thanks a lot. It is so helpful

[@NTFAQGuy]

Most welcome!

[@gYramAncY]

Cheers! This helped a lot.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Awesome, great to hear

[@jatinnandwani6678]

Thanks so much

[@confusedtx5]

When developing for a fleet of desktop pcs that probably don't have PS Core, wouldn't you want to be dev-ing in ISE and PS5 though to avoid versioning differences? Also I like the Commands addon window in the regular ISE. Find it a lot more readable when building code than anything else I've found so far.

[@rolandjosef7961]

8:05 - Enter Powershell

[@enokurve8416]

Thank you

[@philtaylor2364]

thanks

[@happensiphomathebula712]

need help with my PowerShell it says needs an app or if i already installed the app i should make in a default...

[@peterkruijt2599]

That is all nice, it looks going back in time, like using DOS ore Norton commands like 27 to 30 years ago

[@NTFAQGuy]

lol, you may be missing the point. 🤷‍♂️

[@peterkruijt2599]

@@NTFAQGuy After looking in to it i understand the power thanks

[@asimthegunner]

One of the best english accent and voice i've ever heard...

[@NTFAQGuy]

Hehe, thanks.

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Perfect, explanations

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks!

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Love this!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks!

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Awesome....! 🤩

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Really it is good Content

[@launebaer86]

Great videos, thank you so much! I'm a Windows Admin for a couple of years now but I always tried to dodge using Powershell by using GUI. But now I'm convinced to dive into it! Just for my understanding: Is Powershell 7 the successor of Powershell Core?

[@NTFAQGuy]

Yes. PowerShell 7 just drops Core as it unifies the direction but is the next version.

[@martinwagener8112]

If you want to use the switches of the integrated commands, you have to use a dash [ - ] instead of a slash [ / ]

[@VredesbyrdNoir]

Very good intro but you shouldn't upgrade the PS Core package with Chocolatey from within PS core like at 32:50. Chocolatey is built for the Windows PowerShell so that probably explains some of the error messages that appeared. If you're using Chocolatey you're running Windows - if you're running Windows you have the Windows PowerShell to upgrade PS Core...

[@krinzyjewaldo1697]

Superb

[@678Snuex]

Settings -> Playback speed -> 1.5x for the best cramming experiencing!

[@renethomas1526]

Thank You!!!!

[@NTFAQGuy]

You're welcome!

[@50PullUps]

Thanks for making this series -- these videos are just wonderful. Small nitpick: At 11:40 it's probably better to write *dir | foreach {"$($_.GetType().fullname) - $($_.name)"}*

[@brainwasher3742]

11:13 what’s the difference between text strings and objects? Is there a beginner crash course/ebook I could check out to get through basic jargon quickly?

[@NTFAQGuy]

So a text string is just that, a bunch of characters and all I can do is read those characters. An object represents a real object. That means not only can it’s attributes be read and manipulated but it will have methods that can be used to actually perform actions on that object.

[@Ak-sl8cf]

To the people who are new and are not confident on using git, you can install powershell from window 10 store. It easy and everytime a new update come just update it from store.

[@talllpaul1965]

Hi, would this be a good series to get started in writing my own RunBooks/DSC scripts?

[@mohammadsazzadhossain4777]

Hi John thanks for sharing nice video. How can I access your rest of the videos?

[@NTFAQGuy]

They are all on the playlist on this channel

[@TheMaevian]

you still have a floppy drive? Nice video btw, learned a lot!

[@plrclub3100]

Hey is there any difference between the Powershell 5.1 and the version you're using in the video?

[@NTFAQGuy]

I don't remember what version I'm using however 5.1 is Windows PowerShell which is great however there is newer PowerShell Core (currently version 7) that you should start to pivot to.

[@gorge5412]

@@NTFAQGuy Dear Mr John, I instantly subscribed when you informed about migration to ps code (6) & use of VBC & scm. Who knew? THANK YOU !

[@chandershekher1825]

Hi John.....great video. GIT location is empty now. Can i've that content?

[@NTFAQGuy]

I just checked and the location in the about is not empty. All the content is there. Please check again. Thanks

[@Viipiin]

Your efforts are really appreciated.B ut somehow it's been lacking for those users who are using modules based on .net framework like PnPPowershell for SharePoint.Dotnet core is the future. CSOM API version is not working for pwsh for now.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Yep .net based modules won’t natively work but you can use the compat module that I cover in the course.

[@umarhussain9334]

Debugged my first power script script today after a 2 minute intro guess I should the learn the basics!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Awesome!

[@stevenbeeler1005]

3 years later and we're already at powershell 7.3 :)

[@Nnamdxxx]

Were you using a snippet pluggin or in settings. I could not get it to put more than () after if.

[@NTFAQGuy]

There are snippet add-ins but today you would likely use vs code instead which has powershell extension.

[@nsk-kn9em]

Hi master, can I check with you, how to link the below command together as a .ps1 file? Type in Set-ExecutionPolicy bypass Type in Install-Script -Name get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo -Force Type in Y hit enter Type in Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1 -Online Will be grateful for any help you can provide. Thank you.

[@dragosmirtea935]

PowerShell Master Class - PowerShell Fundamentals is the name of the video right ? what happend to min 11:40 ?

[@NTFAQGuy]

Not sure I understand the question. As I say don't worry about the command, its more advanced. The point is showing what is send down the pipeline are objects. The actual commands are explained in later, more advanced lessons.

[@antonfernando8409]

cool.

[@v380riMz]

Do you recommend learning powershell for a Cyber Security student?

[@NTFAQGuy]

I think its useful to understand for many different roles.

[@TH4445]

Great videos, thank you. I just installed PS 7.0 on windows 10 with VS code already on...I have been using VS code to dabble in HTML and CSS . got a landing page up using VS code and netify.. now I'm trying to see what I can do with ps 7 . I have a old linux box I run and I am goin to try to remote to it from w10 lap top. I have been reading that powershell is difficult to secure. I did not enable remote ability checkbox when i installed and I set EXecution policies to restricted in PShell ISE in the other version 6. but I figure it I don't learn fast ...woo hoo and boo hoo. The 7.0 i got from git hub doesn't even show ISE when installed . Its moving to VS code PS extention . Is it true PS is difficult to secure and I am open to all suggestions except giving up. once again thanks for Videos...and stay well.

[@NTFAQGuy]

I posted another video on PS7 and go through VS Code. Remember execution policy is not security. Additionally, you can't do anything in PowerShell your account could not do through other means. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/remoting/winrmsecurity?view=powershell-7 has some good security considerations.

[@TH4445]

@@NTFAQGuy Thanks I will view link ...what i should ask is PS7 worth working on with VS code. I understand thats a difficult ? I'm back, great link . It will keep me busy for a while. I Think I need to upgrade to w10 pro. I am over my head but thats where I like to be THANKS again Mr John.

[@NTFAQGuy]

VS Code with the powershell extension is a richer authoring experience than ISE and is where all the investment is. It also integrates with source control via GIT. Definitely recommend checking it out.

[@TH4445]

@@NTFAQGuy Thanks again.

[@cnweer7698]

Change the playback speed to 1.5 and skip first 8 minutes. Your welcome!

[@glanced9684]

Is this course updated for 2020? Bc I really want to learn Powershell.

[@NTFAQGuy]

i added a module on powershell 7 but the syntax and structure of PowerShell has not changed hence the main course still applies.

[@glanced9684]

@@NTFAQGuy Thank you very much. I'll start learning it right away.