This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches.
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Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
Experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.
Experience with Windows Server administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Detailed Class Syllabus
Learning Path 1: Getting started with Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell overview
Understan Windows PowerShell command syntax
Find commands and get help in Windows PowerShell
Learning Path 2: Windows PowerShell for local systems administration
Active Directory Domain Services administration cmdlets
Network configuration cmdlets
Server administration cmdlets
Windows PowerShell in Windows 10
Learning Path 3: Working with the Windows PowerShell pipeline
Understand the pipeline
Select, sort, and measure objects
Filter objects out of the pipeline
Enumerate objects in the pipeline
Send and pass pipeline data as output
Learning Path 4: Using PSProviders and PSDrives
Using PSProviders
Using PSDrives
Learning Path 5: Querying management information by using CIM and WMI
Understand CIM and WMI
Query data by using CIM and WMI
Make changes by using CIM and WMI
Learning Path 6: Working with variables, arrays, and hash tables
Use variables
Manipulate variables
Manipulate arrays and hash tables
Learning Path 7: Windows PowerShell scripting
Introduction to scripting with Windows PowerShell
Script constructs
Import data from files
Accept user input
Troubleshooting and error handling
Functions and modules
Learning Path 8: Administering remote computers with Windows PowerShell
Use basic Windows PowerShell remoting
Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques
Use PSSessions
Learning Path 9: Managing Azure resources with PowerShell
Azure PowerShell
Introduce Azure Cloud Shell
Manage Azure VMs with PowerShell
Manage storage and subscriptions
Learning Path 10: Managing Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell
Manage Microsoft 365 user accounts, licenses, and groups with PowerShell
Manage Exchange Online with PowerShell
Manage SharePoint Online with PowerShell
Manage Microsoft Teams with PowerShell
Learning Path 11: Using background jobs and scheduled jobs
Use background jobs
Use scheduled jobs