Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

This course is the first part of the Build Your Own Tools series. If you are already familiar with the basics of PowerShell (you can use the pipeline, know about the objects, proficient in flow control elements of the PowerShell programming language and you have already written basic functions and scripts) then this course is for you to step up to the next level. 

In this course, you can learn through a lot of demos how to write enterprise-grade functions and scripts that behave similarly to the built-in cmdlets of PowerShell, handle their parameters securely, validate their parameters dynamically, offer valid values to the users, can be extended with dynamic parameters easily.

By the end of the course, you will be able to write elegant and easy-to-use functions and scripts.

What You Will Learn

  • How to create advanced functions
  • How to enable common parameters
  • Enable your functions and script to consume input from the pipeline
  • Use default parameters in your own functions
  • Writing a logging function for your functions and scripts
  • Using logs to troubleshoot your functions and scripts
  • How to use dynamic parameters to create user-friendly tools
  • How to add help

Program Curriculum

  • Cmdletbinding and Parameter Attributes
  • Use the Pipeline and the Begin, Process and End Blocks
  • Use ‘-WhatIf’, ‘-Verbose’, and ‘–Confirm’
  • Add Help to the Function and Aliases to the Parameters
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  • Chapter 1 Lab
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Add Multiple Parameter Sets, Investigate $PSBoundParameters, $PSCmdlet
  • Use Splatting to Pass Parameters Dynamically
  • What’s the Difference between a Function and a Script? Check $MyInvocation and $PSScriptRoot
  • Chapter 2 Lab
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Explore Dynamic Parameters in cmdlets
  • Add a Dynamic Parameter to a Function
  • Create a Helper Function to Extend Functions with Multiple Dynamic Parameters Easily
  • Chapter 3 Lab
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

Instructor

Tibor Soós

Tibor Soós worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and had been awarded to be a Most Valuable Professional for PowerShell by Microsoft between 2008 and 2013. He has written a free online PowerShell book and developed multiple PowerShell courses. Tibor has worked as a Systems Engineer and as an IT Architect at major financial and manufacturing companies. Tibor now works as a freelance PowerShell developer and expert mainly participating in Identity and Access Management automation and integration projects.

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