SAPIEN Technologies

The SAPIEN Class-On-Disk PowerShell training is a 4 DVD set of training videos developed by Don Jones. Each DVD is recorded in hi-def for the best visual quality. Besides the HD video, we also include a free iPod/iPhone version as well as lab guides, samples and answers, free tools and useful links. Here is a list of the topics covered by each disk:

Fundamentals Disk – 3 hour runtime:

1. Architecture and Overview
2. Navigating your system
3. Introducing Cmdlets
4. The PowerShell Pipeline
5. Key Cmdlets
6. Security Features
7. WMI and PowerShell
8. Pipeline Filtering and Operators
9. AD and PowerShell
10. Input, Output and Formatting
11. Scripting Overview
12. Objects, variables, arrays and escaping
13. Scope
14. More Operators
15. Scripting Constructs
16. Modularization

Intermediate Disk – 1.5 hour runtime:

1. Advanced filtering and cmdlet techniques
2. Leveraging Objects
3. Error trapping and handling
4. Debugging techniques
5. Regular expressions
6. Advanced modularization
7. Saving and exporting objects

Advanced Disk – 1.5 hour runtime:

1. Working with databases
2. Custom format views
3. Custom Type Extensions
4. Working with Windows forms
5. Advanced techniques
6. Advanced PowerShell practical lab

Windows PowerShell v2 – What’s New – 1.5 hour runtime:

1. Using ISA and PrimalScript
2. PS Sessions and WinRM
3. Background jobs
4. Debugging with breakpoints
5. Try Catch
6. WMI
7. Advanced functions
8. Modules
9. Events
10. Reading PS Help
11. Hash Tables
12. Pipeline input
13. PS punctuation