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If you're a Windows administrator accustomed to using VBScript and want to quickly migrate your skills and techniques into the powerful world of Windows PowerShell, this is the training for you!

As you learn new variations on your existing VBScript techniques, you'll be working faster and more efficiently. By the time you're done watching, you'll be able to do anything in PowerShell that you could in VBScript alone.

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		Title	Duration
		Introduction Overview of the series, what we'll be covering	00:07:40
		Windows PowerShell Overview Shell basics and the pipeline, the shell vs. a script interpreter, cmdlets and aliases, profiles, and redirecting output	00:22:40
		Objects and their Members Objects overview, properties and methods, Get-Member, common object types and their methods, how PowerShell turns objects into text	00:26:15
		Using PowerShell's Help Basic help as a syntax reminder, optional parameters, positional parameters, pipeline parameters - ByValue and ByPropertyName	00:20:09
		Variables, Arrays, Dictionaries, Operartors, Quotes, and Escaping Implicit variable declaration, explicit declaration, single and double quotes, escaping	00:18:14
		Managing Files and Folders Comparing PowerShell cmdlets to the VBScript FileSystemObject	00:15:01
		Constructs If/ElseIf/Else, Switch, Default, Break, Do/Until/Loop/Break, For, and ForEach	00:20:22
		Working with WMI and Active Directory Using WMI, Using ADSI, NOT using ADSI, and AD cmdlets (from Quest and in Windows Server 2008 R2)	00:24:14
		Scripts and Functions The basics, parameterized scripts, basic functions, parameterized functions, filtering functions, and a peek at advanced functions	00:25:45
		Advanced Scripting Techniques Dot sourcing to include files, redistributing your code in modules	00:13:50
		The PowerShell Way to Write Functions Why text output is less useful, creating custom objects, and re-using object output more easily	00:19:48
		Understanding Scope The scope hierarchy, variables and scope (and the *-Variable cmdlets), scope "gotchas"	00:23:14
		Error Trapping and Handling ErrorAction and $ErrorActionPreference, trap blocks, scope, and break/continue; Try...Catch	00:19:30
		Regular Expressions What they are, how to use them, for data validation, for extracting data	00:18:02
		Functions, Scripts, and Scope Bringing it all together into a cohesive scripting/programming environment - plus best practices	00:21:16
		Shell Security WSH security overview, PowerShell security overview, security suggestions and best practices	00:23:35
		VBScript to PowerShell Language Cross-Reference String functions, numeric functions, date and time functions, and a few math functions	00:24:19
		Using COM Objects nstantiating objects, using objects, caveats (including interop and type libraries)	00:18:24
		Graphical Scripts Moving from HTAs Windows Forms scripting, PrimalForms Community Edition	00:18:59
		The War on Scripting Migrating a VBScript, re-thinking the script the PowerShell way (and a real-world final example)	00:24:38

Total Series Duration: 6 hours

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