Top 10 PowerShell Commands for Beginners | Realistic Examples with Explanations!

In this video, I'm going to be covering the top 10 PowerShell commands that I use regularly in several jobs that I've had over the years. These commands are incredibly useful and are beginner friendly--I'm sure you'll find them useful!
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0:00 Intro
0:55 Tutorial Start/Environment
1:26 Get-Content
2:34 ForEach-Object
4:51 Out-File
6:42 Test-NetConnection
10:19 ConvertTo-Json
12:10 Get-Date
14:09 Start-Sleep
15:52 Write-Host
16:35 Get-Command
18:21 Get-Help
19:04 PowerShell Lab
19:22 Outro
Before we get started, I just want to say, don't worry about memorizing these commands, just kick back, relax, watch, and try to understand what's happening. Programming is about knowing what's possible, and Googling to find out the syntax or fill in whatever other gaps there are.
These commands are basically my top 10 commands that I use pretty consistently over the years. Obviously there are other commands, but I find myself using these a lot.
Explain that everything in PowerShell is objects
I have this video here where I do some real-worldish things in PowerShell toward the end, so check that out if you feel like it.
In closing, I just want to say, don't feel intimidated by coding. I really brown down why this is in THIS video right here (The truth about coding), so check that out!
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Please feel free to leave a comment, I read and respond to all comments!
Thanks so much for watching, and we will see you next time!

[@JoshMadakor]

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[@artur_tx]

@josh please start a power shell series . Like from zero to hero series lol. You’re awesome man !

[@lynskyrd]

this guy rocks. knows his material and knows how to present it without making it about him.

[@rrr92462]

Great presentation. Really shows the power and versatility of powershell. I’ve been using powershell for years and you showed me a few things I’ve never yet used. I think many engineers don’t realize just how useful it is. Most never heard of powershell. Too bad...

[@jamiew.lacroix7055]

I've known about PowerShell for years and never used it, except when I was given a script all ready to run. This video has yet again made me want to become more proficient at PowerShell Thanks for this video and all your hard work on it..

[@nostalgicnow6001]

Knowing Javascript plus more programming languages It felt closed to home watching you convert anything to json objects 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@TranscendedBlade]

Thanks for this video Josh. Short , Sweet and Straight to the point. Very insightful and good info. This will serve as a nice prep for Cyber.

[@boogieedownacee]

This may be the most insightful video I’ve seen on the subject. Thank you so much 🙏🏾

[@jamespridmore]

Great info. I love that you explain that you need to understand the concepts more than memorizing.

[@JoshMadakor]

Thanks so much for watching and I'm glad you picked up on that. Super important to understand!

[@mikeh4924]

Excellent content, thank you! Articulate, good quality video and audio. Just subbed.

[@Silvermist78]

Awesome Josh! Thank you. 👏🙏

[@anantgaonkar941]

Thanks, very useful with practical use

[@lawrence8322]

insightful, thankyou

[@KarterBrown592]

This was super helpful. Helped me get started with powershell. Trying to learn more code and ways to implement powershell for music production. Was able to link my website host and see details. Going to customize this powershell ISE and try some others

[@TinieMassive]

Really insightful thank you 🙏

[@JoshMadakor]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment :)

[@jessiecarrillo7839]

Thank you so much Josh!

[@JoshMadakor]

no problem, thanks for the support always, really appreciate it

[@davidfox4253]

Great vid I've subbed and will view mor THNX!

[@saltypenguin5102]

You finally took my advice and did your powershell videos :) great video! As you can tell I’m starting to learn something here from you lol. Can you do another example videos on powershell for automation daily task projects at the job. Some things that you would think use powershell to automate your tasks more easier then manually doing it. Can you show us how to create an AD/Exchange online new user accounts for new hired. Maybe another videos on how to use powershell to exploit certain things in domain network…

[@JoshMadakor]

A lot of that is beyond my skill level since I've never worked with Exchange haha, but I can think of a few ideas :). Thank you!

[@LOOregano]

Thanks from the great summery video. I created a script that backs up key c-drive locations to OneDrive (upon login) that cannot be set out of the box. Another is to prompt to connect to VPN, map network drives after login to vpn... Then combined the 2 scripts to run after each other. I'm a super basic PS user who's trying to let so just giving you some ideas on types of daily tasks that users may do. 🙂

[@silver33]

What is the best way to practice PowerShell? I know nothing about it, but will need to use it for a new job. Thank you in advance.

[@christianf7740]

Great stuff

[@sagarregmi7975]

Awesome!!

[@soummaneredouane4786]

Thank you so much it was very helpful video keep going

[@JoshMadakor]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate that!

[@bhupendrasinghsuri496]

I liked your effort

[@delta666SoT]

you hit that 10k sub marker! Time to do a part 2 on the windows server, that was super informative for me!

[@JoshMadakor]

Lmao thank you, I’ll do some more labs in the future!

[@delta666SoT]

@@JoshMadakor Thanks! you to do a good job with the hands on stuff, concise directions but also address some of the options. Definitely helped me understand the essentials of the AD layout

[@analyzethislexi]

Great video! Do any of the WGU IT courses cover power shell in depth? If so, which courses?

[@JoshMadakor]

Hey Lexi, I don't think they do unfortunately. It's pretty useful but just one of those things you gotta learn on your own most of the time. (or with KZbin tutorials, etc :p)

[@analyzethislexi]

Good to know!! Thank you!@@JoshMadakor

[@masteriveyletsplay2339]

I would love your help on a project. I’m trying to write a script to search and edit registry keys and values.

[@lioneldeliz7053]

Hi Josh, for someone with zero programming skills who needs to learn things like this - )]}|$" indenting - even before we get to this point, what do you suggest?

[@kumaryadav5536]

could you please make details video to convert log file into the excel using powershell? or if possible send me the script. Thanks in advance!

[@sagarregmi7975]

Can you please share bat script for installing and uninstalling notepad ++ and share with me .