Soooo…. it’s time for me to start looking at updating my various training materials (books, videos, courses, whatnot) for v4.
I’m going to, with at least some of these, take an all-versions approach. I’ll teach what’s in v2, then cover what v3 added, then cover v4, etc. It’ll be easier to maintain over the upcoming years.
For right now, I’m trying to assemble an organized topic list of “everything” the shell does. Now, I need to wrap that in an important caveat: I’m aiming at admins. Not developers. I’m not saying devs aren’t a great audience, but for this project I need to constrain my scope to just the admin audience. I’m also focused mainly on what the shell does _natively, _with only a few diversions into external or underlying technologies. Those are fixed caveats for this project - no exceptions.
Right now I"m kind of chunking the list into what I feel can be taught (by me) in 20-30 minutes, or a book chapter, or something like that. This isn’t necessarily how the material will be presented - this is just me organizing my thoughts so as to not miss important stuff.
So, given the list below, what do you feel is missing?
(Numbers are major topics; letters are basically my mental notes about what the topic might include that I might otherwise forget; like I said, this isn’t meant to be a real book outline - it’s just a topic list)
PowerShell Core

1. Series Introduction and Lab Setup
2. Windows PowerShell Introduction and Requirements
3. Finding and Discovering Commands
   a. Importing modules and snapins
4. Interpreting Command Help
5. Running Commands
6. Running External Commands: Tips and Tricks
   a. $Lastexitcode
7. Working with PSProviders and PSDrives
8. Variables, Strings, Hashtables, and Core Operators
   a. Double quote tricks, subexpressions
   b. Here-strings
   c. Escapes
   d. Variable types
   e. Arrays
   f. Math operators
9. Regular Expression Basics
   a. Basic regex language
   b. ““Match
   c. Select-String
10. Learning the Pipeline: Exporting and Converting Data
11. Understanding Objects in PowerShell
12. Core Commands: Selecting, Sorting, Meauring, and More
13. How the PowerShell Pipeline Works
14. Formatting Command Output
15. Comparison Operators and Filtering
16. Advanced Operators
17. Setting Default Values for Command Parameters
18. Enumerating Objects in the Pipeline
    a. Working with object methods
19. Advanced Date and String Manipulation
20. Soup to Nuts: Completing a New Task
    PowerShell Remoting
21. PowerShell Remoting Basics
22. Persistent Remoting: PSSessions
23. Implicit Remoting: Using Commands on Another Computer
24. Advanced Remoting: Passing Data and Working with Output
25. Advanced Remoting: Crossing Domain Boundaries
26. Advanced Remoting: Custom Session Configurations
27. Web Remoting: PowerShell Web Access
    WMI and CIM
28. WMI and CIM: WMI, Docs, and the Repository
29. WMI and CIM: Using WMI to Commands Query Data
30. WMI and CIM: Using CIM Commands to Query Data
31. WMI and CIM: Filtering and WMI Query Language
32. WMI and CIM: Associations
33. WMI and CIM: Working with CIM Sessions
34. WMI and CIM: Executing Instance Methods
    Jobs
35. Background Job Basics: Local, WMI, and Remoting Jobs
36. Scheduled Background Jobs
    Scripting in PowerShell
37. PowerShell Script Security
38. Prompting for Input, Producing Output
39. Creating Basic Parameterized Scripts
40. PowerShell Scripting: Logical Constructs
41. PowerShell Scripting: Looping Constructs
    a. Break and Continue
42. PowerShell Scripting: Basic Functions, Filters, and Pipeline Functions
43. PowerShell Scripting: Best Practices
    a. Line breaking
    b. Splatting
    c. Formatting
    d. Source Control
    e. Etc.
44. PowerShell Scripting: From Command to Script to Function to Module
45. PowerShell Scripting: Scope
46. PowerShell Scripting: Combining Data from Multiple Sources
    a. Ordered hashtables
    Advanced Functions (“Script Cmdlets”)
47. Advanced Functions: Adding Help
48. Advanced Functions: Parameter Attributes
49. Advanced Functions: Pipeline Input
50. Advanced Functions: Parameter Sets
    Advanced Scripting Techniques
51. Creating Private Utility Functions and Preference Variables
52. Adding Error Capturing and Handling to a Function
53. Advanced Error Handling
    a. Variety of error capturing options
    b. Catching multiple exceptions
    c. Etc.
54. Error Handling the Old Way: Trap
55. Debugging Techniques
56. Creating Custom Formatting Views
57. Creating Custom Type Extensions
58. Working with SQL Server (and other) Databases
59. Working with XML Data Files
60. Supporting ““WhatIf and ““Confirm in Functions
61. Troubleshooting and Tracing the Pipeline
62. Using Object Hierarchies for Complex Output
63. Creating a Proxy Function
    PowerShell in the Field
64. From the Field: Enhanced HTML Reporting
65. From the Field: Trend Analysis Reporting
66. From the Field: Scraping HTML Pages
    PowerShell Workflow
67. Introduction to PowerShell Workflow
    Desired State Configuration
68. Desired State Configuration: The Basics
69. Desired State Configuration: Configuration Scripts
70. Desired State Configuration: Writing Resources
71. Globalizing a Function or Script
72. Discovering and Using COM Objects
73. Discovering and Using .NET Classes and Instances
    Writing Scripts for Other People
74. Controller Scripts: Automating Business Processes
75. Controller Scripts: A Menu of Tools
76. Creating a GUI Tool: The GUI
77. Creating a GUI Tool: The Code
78. Creating a GUI Tool: The Output
79. Creating a GUI Tool: Using Data Tables
    Advanced Core Techniques, Tricks, and Tips
80. Using Type Accelerators
    a. [ADSI]
    b. [XML]
    c. [VOID]
    d. where they"™re documented
81. The Big Gotchas in PowerShell
    a. (from the ebook list)
82. Fun with Profiles
    a. Profiles and hosts
    b. Prompt
    c. Colors
    d. Get a credential
83. Random Tips and Tricks
    a. Redirection changing pipelines
    b. $$
    c. $?
    d. Dot sourcing