Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell

Master the art of automating Windows server administration with Windows PowerShell 4.0, designed for IT professionals seeking to streamline management tasks and enhance efficiency across multiple Windows environments.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand the basic concepts of Windows PowerShell and its command-line interface.

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Design scripts to automate administration tasks using PowerShell shells and modules.

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Implement advanced remoting techniques to manage remote servers effectively.

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Utilize Windows PowerShell to query and manipulate system information using WMI and CIM.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • IT Professionals
  • Windows Server Administrators
  • System Administrators
  • Support Technicians

Description

Learn how with Windows PowerShell 4.0, you can remotely manage multiple Windows based servers and automate day to day management and administration tasks.   The course is built on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 and while it is specifically focused on Windows PowerShell v4.0, is also relevant in v2.0 and v3.0 Windows PowerShell environments   This five day course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use Windows PowerShell 4.0 for administering and automating administration of Windows based servers. It focuses on primary Windows PowerShell command-line features and techniques, and will provide pre-requisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, System Center, and more. 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) will serve as the example for the techniques being taught.   In this five day course you will learn to execute and monitor scripts more efficiently through more robust session connectivity, workflow capabilities, enhanced job scheduling, and Windows PowerShell Web Access. Learn Windows PowerShell with greater ease through improved cmdlet discovery and simplified, consistent syntax across all cmdlets. Write Windows PowerShell scripts quicker and more intuitively through the new Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) that enables script sharing, which connects IT pros to a larger Windows PowerShell user community. Learn all this and more in this five-day Microsoft Official Course in Windows PowerShell 4.0.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Getting Started with Windows PowerShell

  1. Overview and Background

  2. Finding and Learning Commands

  3. Running Commands

  4. Lab: Configuring Windows PowerShell

  5. Lab: Finding and Running Basic Commands

Module 2: Working with the Pipeline

  1. Understanding the Pipeline

  2. Selecting, Sorting, and Measuring Objects

  3. Converting, Exporting, and Importing Objects

  4. Filtering Objects Out of the Pipeline

  5. Enumerating Objects in the Pipeline

  6. Lab: Using the Pipeline

  7. Lab: Converting, Exporting, and Importing Objects

  8. Lab: Filtering Objects

  9. Lab: Enumerating Objects

Module 3: Understanding How the Pipeline Works

  1. Passing Data in the Pipeline By Value

  2. Passing Data in the Pipeline By Property Name

  3. Lab: Working with Pipeline Parameter Binding

Module 4: Using PSProviders and PSDrives

  1. Using PSProviders

  2. Using PSDrives

  3. Lab: Using PSProviders and PSDrives

Module 5: Formatting Output

  1. Using Basic Formatting

  2. Using Advanced Formatting

  3. Redirecting Formatted Output

  4. Lab: Formatting Output

Module 6: Querying Management Information by Using WMI and CIM

  1. Understanding WMI and CIM

  2. Querying Data with WMI and CIM

  3. Making Changes by Using WMI and CIM

  4. Lab: Working with WMI and CIM

Module 7: Preparing for Scripting

  1. Using Variables

  2. Scripting Security

  3. Lab: Working with Security in Windows PowerShell

Module 8: Moving From a Command to Script to Module

  1. Moving From Command to Script

  2. Moving From Script to Function to Module

  3. Implementing Basic Error Handling

  4. Using Basic Scripting Constructs

  5. Exploring Other Scripting Features

  6. Lab: Moving From Command to Script

  7. Lab: Moving From Script to Function to Module

  8. Lab: Implementing Basic Error Handling

  9. Lab: Creating an Advanced Function

Module 9: Administering Remote Computers

  1. Using Basic Remoting

  2. Using Advanced Remoting Techniques

  3. Using Remoting Sessions

  4. Lab: Using Basic Remoting

  5. Lab: Using Remoting Sessions

Module 10: Putting it All Together

  1. Provisioning a New Server Core Instance

  2. Lab: Provisioning a New Server Core Installation

Module 11: Using Background Jobs and Scheduled Jobs

  1. Using Background Jobs

  2. Using Scheduled Jobs

  3. Lab: Using Background Jobs

  4. Lab: Using Scheduled Jobs

Module 12: Using Profiles and Advanced PowerShell Techniques

  1. Using Advanced PowerShell Techniques

  2. Creating Profile Scripts

  3. Working With Alternative Credentials

  4. Lab: Practicing Advanced Techniques

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