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>> Hello everyone. I'm
instructor Gerri Roberts,

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and this is
PowerShell scripting.

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In this video, we're
going to talk about

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which PowerShell tools you

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can use to work with PowerShell,

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PowerShell and the command line,

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customizing the interface and

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some tools for
PowerShell scripting.

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First, let's talk about
PowerShell tools.

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In order to use PowerShell,

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you have to use
one of the tools.

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There are a couple of
main tools that are

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loaded into Windows instances.

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The first one is console.

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There's x64 and x86 version,

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so there's a 32-bit
and 64-bit version.

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When opening them,

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x64-bit is usually listed
as just PowerShell,

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and x86 is usually listed
as PowerShell x86.

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This is good for basic
PowerShell usage.

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You also have PowerShell ISE.

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ISE stands for, Integrated
Scripting Environment,

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and this is great
for writing scripts,

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saving scripts,
and testing them.

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To open the tools,

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there are a couple of methods.

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Easiest way of locating
and opening them,

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is to use the Windows
Search feature

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as you can see
picture to the right.

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Typically, when you
type in PowerShell,

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you'll get a list that
looks similar to this,

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and you'll see that you have

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the ISE x86 and you also
have the regular one listed.

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Best practice is to run
in administrative mode.

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When you go to open
up PowerShell ISE,

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you can either right-click
or go administrator mode,

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and that's the same
for the consoles.

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Anytime you go and
try to open any of

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them, right-click
administrative mode,

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or if you noticed in Windows 10,

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you also get this
little option here and

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the apps pane that says
run as an administrator.

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For server, there's actually

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a special place you can
find PowerShell tools.

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If you go to Server Manager
and you go to the Tools menu,

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you can find them in there.

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Now you can still search
for them just like

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you can in the client
version of Windows,

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it just seems a lot quicker
to go tools and PowerShell.

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Now, if you're not using

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a tool and you want to use
the command line instead,

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you can actually do that.

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It's very simple.

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Opening and closing PowerShell
in the command line.

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For opening, you type

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in PowerShell and as
you can see here,

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you'll get a prompt that says

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PowerShell copyright
information,

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and then you will get

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your listing here
with PS in the front,

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instead of just your
regular prompt.

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Closing PowerShell,
very simple as well,

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just type in exit
and you will go back

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to a normal command line prompt.

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The other thing you could do is

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you can customize the
interface for PowerShell.

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Now, when you open
up PowerShell,

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you'll notice that is very

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basic and the command prompt
it's still white on black,

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in PowerShell, it's
white on blue.

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You'll want to change
that in some cases so

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it's easier for you
to read or look at.

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To change it in the command
line prompt is simple,

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just right-click the title
bar, choose Properties,

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you'll see a little menu comes
up and then it pops up to

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this nice little box where

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you can go and change a
couple of different things.

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If you go to the font
section right here,

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you'll see that you
can change font size,

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type, all that good stuff.

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If you want to
change the colors so

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it's a little bit
easier to read,

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you can go to the colors
tab and change those items.

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One thing you'll
want to notice in

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the colors tab is that you have

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text for your screen
and for pop-ups.

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You can change the
background and the text on

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the normal screen as well as

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any pop-ups that might come
up as a result of a command.

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In console, very similar to

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the command line
prompt on how you're

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going to be able to
make those changes,

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just right-click at the top,

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go to properties,

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and you'll see that you get
a similar box with fonts,

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colors, and all that good
stuff that you can do.

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Again in here, font
changes font size, type,

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all that good stuff, and colors

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will change the console colors,

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you have foreground
and background

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just as you do in
the command line,

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as well as pop-up colors like
you do in the command line.

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Now, big difference

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with ISE or Integrated
Script Environment,

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there are a lot more
options for customization.

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You can do font, color and size.

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If you go to tools and options,

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you can change that in there.

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You'll see it's under
colors and fonts.

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There's also some
other settings in

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general settings where
you can change items,

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like whether or not
IntelliSense is turned on,

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whether or not you can view

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line numbers when
you're typing it out,

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and all that good stuff.

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Another thing in here that
you don't get with others is

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a Restore Defaults
where you can go

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back to PowerShell ISE defaults.

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This is something you can't
really do in the console.

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You can also change

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how the window is organized
and what you want to show.

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On console, on command line,

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you pretty much just have
a box and that's it.

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In ISE, you have a couple of

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different boxes with
different things

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that you can move around.

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If you want to add
things like say,

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the script pane so you can
write out your scripts,

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you can go to View and

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then choose the item
you want to view.

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Now the script pane can be

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viewed on the right
or on the top,

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so that is something
to remember so you

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can move that
around a little bit

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to make it easier to read.

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You also have a command

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add-on that you can add
to the right there.

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It's an add-on that
allows you to search for

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commands which is super

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useful if you can't
remember a whole command,

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but you remember part
of it, you could start

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typing it and all come up with

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a list of similar items
to what you're typing.

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Some scripting tools
that are available.

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Scripting you can do
with PowerShell ISE.

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There are a lot of
people that do that,

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and it's very useful, very easy.

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You even have a little options

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for color-coding and
stuff like that.

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You can even write your
scripts in Notepad

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and just write them out and
save them as a.PS1 file.

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You can also use a
tool called Notepad++.

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Notepad++ allows you to

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work like you're in
a PowerShell ISE,

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your Visual Studio
environment where you

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can color-code all
your commands.

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You also have Visual Studio,

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you can do PowerShell
scripting in Visual Studio and

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save it as a.PS1 and run
it as a PowerShell script.

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Our post-assessment time here.

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If you wanted to use

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a PowerShell tool that
was good for scripting,

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which tool would you use?

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Would you use the
command prompt?

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Would you use PowerShell x86?

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Would you use PowerShell
ISE or PowerShell x64?

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Now you can pause,
if you'd like.

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The answer is C, PowerShell ISE.

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PowerShell ISE remember is
integrated script environment,

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so it's designed for
usage with scripts.