Sams Teach Yourself Windows PowerShell in 24 Hours Pearson uCertify Course and Labs and Textbook Bundle

Welcome to Sams Teach Yourself Windows PowerShell in 24 Hours Pearson uCertify Course and Labs and Textbook Bundle

Sams Teach Yourself Windows PowerShell in 24 Hours Pearson uCertify Course and Labs is an easy-to-use online course that allows you to assess your readiness and teaches you what you need to know to master all facets of Windows administration, supercharging your effectiveness as an IT professional or power user.

Learn how to build and run scripts, extend Windows PowerShell reach, manage computers remotely, and automate a wide variety of tasks on any modern Windows server or client through the Sams Teach Yourself Windows PowerShell in 24 Hours interactive eBook. The interactive eBook includes informative text, tables, step-by-step lists, images, video instruction, interactive exercises, and review activities. The course comes complete with extensive pre- and post-assessment tests and two practice tests. In total, there are 360 practice questions.

The award-winning uCertify Labs help bridge the gap between conceptual knowledge and real-world application by providing competency-based, interactive, online, 24x7 training. More than 80 uCertify Labs simulate real-world networking hardware, software applications and operating systems, and command-line interfaces. Students can feel safe working in this virtual environment resolving real-world operating system and hardware problems.

All of the content–the interactive e-book, video instruction, practice questions, exercises, and the labs focuses on deepening your understanding of PowerShell programming and increasing your skill set. Learn how to:

• Install, configure, and explore Windows PowerShell (including updates for PowerShell 5)

• Leverage .NET’s remarkable power and scope with easy-to-use cmdlets

• Build new scripts with the console, ISE visual tools, and other popular hosts

• Apply best practices for writing more reliable, flexible, team-friendly scripts

• Work effectively with the pipeline, objects, and data

• Extend Windows PowerShell reach via providers, drives, and output

• Run external tools like ping, ipconfig, and tracert from within PowerShell

• Remotely manage computers with basic and advanced remoting (WinRM), WMI, and Regex

• Configure Windows devices across the web with PSWA

• Sort, filter, measure, format, export, and convert script output

• Run Windows PowerShell flexibly, using background and scheduled jobs

• Customize your environment with profile scripts, alternate credentials, third party tools, and packages

• Strengthen your control over Windows systems and services with Desired State Configuration

• Administer key tasks on SQL Server, SharePoint, and other Windows servers

• Master PowerShell skills needed to earn many Microsoft certifications

With the ebook’s step-by-step approach and realistic examples, the course’s interactive lab exercises, and 10+ hours of supplemental video instruction, you’ll finish this course with a rock-star level foundation for real-world success!