Lecture 4: Work with date at time in PowerShell

This video is about working with date and time

Lecture 3: Learn to securely use Passwords with PowerShell

This video series review passwords

Lesson 1

www.boldzebras.com

1. $un = "tim@gmail.com"

*create user name

2. $pw = "Password"

*create password

3. $sp = $pw = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $un, $pw  

4. Connect-msolService -credential $plainCred

*couldn't run this due to not having access to Office 365

Lecture 2:Objects in PowerShell

This lecture / video is about objects and we run through a sample script

Script to work tthrough

Get-PSDrive | ?{$_.Free -gt 1} | %{$Count = 0; Write-Host "";} { $_.Name + ": Used: " + "{0:N2}" -f ($_.Used/1gb) + " Free: " + "{0:N2}" -f ($_.free/1gb) + " Total: " + "{0:N2}" -f (($_.Used/1gb)+($_.Free/1gb)); $Count = $Count + $_.Free;}{Write-Host"";Write-Host "Total Free Space " ("{0:N2}" -f ($Count/1gb)) -backgroundcolor magenta}

1. get-psdrives

*all the drives on local

Note: some drives are irrelevant

2. break apart script ?

*ask a question

3. Get-PSDrive | where-object {$_.Free -gt 1}

*(verb)(command)(noun)(pipe)(where object){(current object in the pipe)(greater than)(1)}

**it is passing the variable property (amount of space) into .Free then returning if greater than one

4. Get-PSDrive | where-object {$_.Free -gt 1} | select-object Root, Used, Free

**Select Object Properties

5. Get-PSDrive | where-object {$_.Free -gt 1} | ForEach-Object {"zebra"}

*runs though each object and assigns console.writeline("zebra")

6. Get-PSDrive | where-object {$_.Free -gt 1} | ForEach-Object {write-host " Free space for" $_.Free " is" $_.Root -foregroundcolor red }

* note, all text must contain "" and no commas after varibales

7.Get-PSDrive | where-object {$_.Free -gt 1} | ForEach-Object {write-host " Free space for"( $_.Free/1gb) " is" $_.Root -foregroundcolor red }

* Can divide by 1gb or 1mb

8."{0:N0}" -f 1000000000

**Note it is zero's in the formatting equation

9. "{0:N2}" -f 1000000000

*returns .00

10. "{0:c2}" -f 1000000000

*returns currency

11. "{0:p2}" -f 1000000000

*percent

12.Get-PSDrive | where-object {$_.Free -gt 1} | ForEach-Object {write-host " Free space for"("{0:N0}" -f ($_.Free/1gb)) " is" $_.Root -foregroundcolor red }

*added into statement

13. ?

*is an alias for where-object

14. %

*foreach alias

15. foreach [19:48]

foreach{$c=0; write-host "blah hblah"}{$c=$c+1;write-host"blah, blah"}{$c

Lecture 1: Getting Started: Transcripts, Variables, Methods, Properties

Lecture 1: Getting Started

Video 1: starts with getting PowerShell all setup. I changed the background to black and the font to neon green, just like the a400 hack days. Font 24 size

This is the first video in the series

Part 1: Getting Started

1. Always start out with command

Start-Transcript

*allows script to be saved

2. get-command

*everything available in PS

3. get-

(verb)(command)(noun)

*everything in PowerShell must be in this format

**noun= parameter

4. Other examples

get-command-Noun service

*returned 8 objects about service

5. get-help get-service

* this is the help section

6. get-help get-service -examples -online

* good command to show examples

7. cls

*(alias) clears screen

**translate alias get-alias cls

***returns -> Clear-Host

****this is: (verb)(command)(noun)

8. get-process 

*this is similar to task manager

9. pipe over command (|)

*| denotes pipe

10. get-member

*denotes all the properties and methods of that object

**properties: example car: color, type, brand

***methods: open door, start car, break car

11. | select-object *

(pipe)(verb)(command)(noun)(all)

Part 2: Variables

1. $zebra =  get-process MicrosftEdge

*(variable) = (verb)(command)(noun) (object)

2.$zebra

*check to see if variable was set

3. $zebra.name

*(variable).(property)

4. $zebra.kill()

*(variable).(Method)

5. get-history

*what we did

6. transcripts located in documents folder