55039: Windows PowerShell Scripting And Toolmaking Training

The five-day course is designed for IT professionals interested in updating their industry-relevant skills in PowerShell as well as administrative automation. This course considers the individual taking the course possesses fundamental knowledge of PowerShell as an interactive shell and teaches students how to create appropriate patterns and practices to build reusable, tightly scoped automation units.

This training is designed based on the objectives of the course variant 55039B.

• Describing correct patterns to build modularized tools in PowerShell
• Building highly modular functions complying with native patterns in PowerShell.
• Building user interfaces exposing controller scripts and automate business processes
• Managing data in different formats
• Writing tools automating tests
• Debugging tools

The course is suitable for admins working in Microsoft environments and now wants to learn the skills of building reusable automation units, business process automation and enabling colleagues to complete administration related tasks.

Before going to 55039: Windows PowerShell Scripting And Toolmaking course, understudies must have:

• Involvement in overseeing Windows server and customer PCs
• Involvement in running intuitive Windows PowerShell summons from the charge provoke
• Course 10961 is unequivocally prescribed as a pre-imperative to this course

• 1. Tool Design

This module explains how to design tools and units of automation that comply with native PowerShell usage patterns.

• Tools do one thing
• Tools are flexible
• Tools look native

Lab: Designing a Tool

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the native shell patterns that a good tool design should exhibit
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2. Start with a Command
This module explains how to start the scripting process by beginning in the interactive shell console.
Why start with a command?
Discovery and experimentation
Lab: Designing a Tool
Start with a command
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the benefits of discovery and experimentation in the console
Discover and experiment with existing commands in the console
3. Build a Basic Function and Module
This module explains how to build a basic function and module, using commands already experimented with in the shell.
Start with a basic function
Create a script module
Check prerequisites
Run the new command
Lab: Designing a Tool
Build a basic function and module
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Build a basic function
Create a script module
Run a command from a script module
4. Adding CmdletBinding and Parameterizing
This module explains how to extend the functionality of a tool, parameterize input values, and use CmdletBinding.
About CmdletBinding and common parameters
Accepting pipeline input
Mandatory-ness
Parameter validation
Parmeter aliases
Lab: Designing a Tool
Adding CmdletBinding and Parameterizing
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of CmdletBinding and list common parameters
Parameterize a script’s input
Define parameters as mandatory
Define parameters as accepting pipeline input
Define parameter validation
5. Emitting Objects as Output
This module explains how to create tools that produce custom objects as output.
Assembling information
Constructing and emitting output
Quick tests
Lab: Designing a Tool
Emitting objects as output
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of object-based output
Create and output custom objects from a function
6. An Interlude: Changing Your Approach
This module explains how to re-think tool design, using concrete examples of how it’s often done wrong.
Examining a script
Critiquing a script
Revising the script
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the native patterns that a good tool design should exhibit
Redesign a script to meet business requirements and conform to native patterns
7. Using Verbose, Warning, and Informational Output
This module explains how to use additional output pipelines for better script behaviors.
Knowing the six channels
Adding verbose and warning output
Doing more with verbose output
Informational output
Lab: Designing a Tool
Using Verbose, Warning, and Informational Output
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the six output channels in the shell
Write commands that use verbose, warning, and informational output
Run commands with extra output enabled
8. Comment-Based Help
This module explains how to add comment-based help to tools.
Where to put your help
Getting started
Going further with comment-based help
Broken help
Lab: Designing a Tool
Comment-based help
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose and construction of comment-based help
Add comment-based help to a function
Identify causes of broken comment-based help
9. Handling Errors
This module explains how to create tools that deal with anticipated errors.
Understanding errors and exceptions
Bad handling
Two reasons for exception handling
Handling exceptions in our tool
Capturing the actual exception
Handling exceptions for non-commands
Going further with exception handling
Deprecated exception handling
Lab: Designing a Tool
Handling errors
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the native patterns for handling errors in a command
Add error handling to a command
Run a command and observe error handling behaviors
10. Basic Debugging
This module explains how to use native PowerShell script debugging tools.
Two kinds of bugs
The ultimate goal of debugging
Developing assumptions
Write-Debug
Set-PSBreakpoint
The PowerShell ISE
Lab: Designing a Tool
Basic debugging
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the tools used for debugging in PowerShell
Debug a broken script
11. Going Deeper with Parameters
This module explains how to further define parameter attributes in a PowerShell command.
Parameter positions
Validation
Multiple parameter sets
Value from remaining arguments
Help messages
Aliases
More CmdletBinding
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of positional parameters
Describe additional parameter validation methods
Describe how to define multiple parameter sets
Describe other parameter definition options
12. Writing Full Help
This module explains how to create external help for a command.
External help
Using PlatyPs
Supporting online help
“About” topics
Making your help updatable
Lab: Designing a Tool
Writing full help
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the advantages of external help
Create external help using PlatyPS and Markdown
13. Unit Testing Your Code
This module explains how to use Pester to perform basic unit testing.
Sketching out the test
Making something to test
Expanding the test
Going further with Pester
Lab: Designing a Tool
Unit testing your code
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of unit testing
Write basic unit tests for PowerShell functions
14. Extending Output Types
This module explains how to extend objects with additional capabilities.
Understanding types
The Extensible Type System
Extending an object
Using Update-TypeData
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of the ETS
Extend an existing object type
15. Analyzing Your Script
This module explains how to use Script Analyzer to support best practices and prevent common problems.
Performing a basic analysis
Analyzing the analysis
Lab: Designing a Tool
Analyzing your script
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of Script Analyzer
Perform a basic script analysis
16. Publishing Your Tools
This module explains how to publish tools to public and private repositories.
Begin with a manifest
Publishing to PowerShell Gallery
Publishing to private repositories
Lab: Designing a Tool
Publishing your tools
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the tool publishing process and requirements
Publish a tool to a repository
17. Basic Controllers: Automation Scripts and Menus
This module explains how to create controller scripts that put tools to use.
Building a menu
Using UIChoice
Writing a process controller
Lab: Designing a Tool
Basic controllers
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of basic controller scripts
Write a simple controller script
18. Proxy Functions
This module explains how to create and use proxy functions.
A proxy example
Creating the proxy base
Modifying the proxy
Adding or removing parameters
Lab: Designing a Tool
Proxy functions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the purpose of proxy functions
Create a simple proxy function
19. Working with XML Data
This module explains how to work with XML data in PowerShell.
Simple: CliXML
Importing native XML
ConvertTo-XML
Creating native XML from scratch
Lab: Designing a Tool
Working with XML
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of XML within PowerShell
Use XML data within a PowerShell function
20. Working with JSON Data
This module explains how to using JSON data in PowerShell.
Converting to JSON
Converting from JSON
Lab: Designing a Tool
Working with JSON data
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of JSON data within PowerShell
Use JSON data within a PowerShell function
21. Working with SQL Server Data
This module explains how to use SQL Server from within a PowerShell script.
SQL Server terminology and facts
Connecting to the server and database
Writing a query
Running a query
Invoke-SqlCmd
Thinking about tool design patterns
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the use of SQL Server from within PowerShell
Write and run SQL Server queries
Design tools that use SQL Server for data storage
22. Final Exam
This module provides a chance for students to use everything they have learned in this course within a practical example.
Lab problem
Break down the problem
Do the design
Test the commands
Code the tool
Lab: Final Exam
Lab: Final Exam
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Create PowerShell tools, using native design patterns, from business requirements.