Automating Administration with PowerShell

Empower your Windows server administration with our comprehensive PowerShell course designed for IT professionals ready to automate and streamline system management tasks across Microsoft platforms like Azure and Microsoft 365.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Describe the functionality of Windows PowerShell and perform basic commands.

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Implement cmdlets for local and remote system administration.

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Harness the Windows PowerShell pipeline for data management.

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Automate tasks using PowerShell scripting and job scheduling.

Format

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

Audience

  • IT Professionals
  • Windows Server Administrators
  • Azure Administrators
  • Microsoft 365 Administrators

Description

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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Upcoming Course Dates

August 11-15, 2025

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

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October 6-10, 2025

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Course Outline

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Learning Path 1: Getting started with Windows PowerShell

  1. Windows PowerShell overview

  2. Understand Windows PowerShell command syntax

  3. Find commands and get help in Windows PowerShell

  4. Lab: Configuring Windows PowerShell, and finding and running commands

  5. Configuring the Windows PowerShell console application

  6. Configuring the Windows PowerShell ISE application

  7. Finding and running Windows PowerShell commands

  8. Using About files

Learning Path 2: Windows PowerShell for local systems administration

  1. Active Directory Domain Services administration cmdlets

  2. Network configuration cmdlets

  3. Server administration cmdlets

  4. Windows PowerShell in Windows 10

  5. Lab: Performing local system administration with PowerShell

  6. Creating and managing Active Directory objects

  7. Configuring network settings on Windows Server

  8. Creating a website

Learning Path 3: Working with the Windows PowerShell pipeline

  1. Understand the pipeline

  2. Select, sort, and measure objects

  3. Filter objects out of the pipeline

  4. Enumerate objects in the pipeline

  5. Send and pass pipeline data as output

  6. Lab: Using PowerShell pipeline

  7. Selecting, sorting, and displaying data

  8. Filtering objects

  9. Enumerating objects

  10. Converting objects

Learning Path 4: Using PSProviders and PSDrives

  1. Using PSProviders

  2. Using PSDrives

  3. Lab: Using PSProviders and PSDrives with PowerShell

  4. Creating files and folders on a remote computer

  5. Creating a registry key for your future scripts

  6. Create a new Active Directory group

Learning Path 5: Querying management information by using CIM and WMI

  1. Understand CIM and WMI

  2. Query data by using CIM and WMI

  3. Make changes by using CIM and WMI

  4. Lab: Querying information by using WMI and CIM

  5. Querying information by using WMI

  6. Querying information by using CIM

  7. Invoking methods

Learning Path 6: Working with variables, arrays, and hash tables

  1. Use variables

  2. Manipulate variables

  3. Manipulate arrays and hash tables

  4. Lab: Using variables, arrays, and hash tables in PowerShell

  5. Working with variable types

  6. Using arrays

  7. Using hash tables

Learning Path 7: Windows PowerShell scripting

  1. Introduction to scripting with Windows PowerShell

  2. Script constructs

  3. Import data from files

  4. Accept user input

  5. Troubleshooting and error handling

  6. Functions and modules

  7. Lab: Using scripts with PowerShell

  8. Signing a script

  9. Processing an array with a ForEach loop

  10. Processing items by using If statements

  11. Creating users based on a CSV file

  12. Querying disk information from remote computers

  13. Updating the script to use alternate credentials

Learning Path 8: Administering remote computers with Windows PowerShell

  1. Use basic Windows PowerShell remoting

  2. Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques

  3. Use PSSessions

  4. Lab: Performing remote administration with PowerShell

  5. Enabling remoting on the local computer

  6. Performing one-to-one remoting

  7. Performing one-to-many remoting

  8. Using implicit remoting

Learning Path 9: Managing Azure resources with PowerShell

  1. Azure PowerShell

  2. Introduce Azure Cloud Shell

  3. Manage Azure VMs with PowerShell

  4. Manage storage and subscriptions

  5. Lab: Azure resource management with PowerShell

  6. Activating the Azure subscription and installing the PowerShell Az module

  7. Using Azure Cloud Shell

  8. Managing Azure resources with Azure PowerShell

Learning Path 10: Managing Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell

  1. Manage Microsoft 365 user accounts, licenses, and groups with PowerShell

  2. Manage Exchange Online with PowerShell

  3. Manage SharePoint Online with PowerShell

  4. Manage Microsoft Teams with PowerShell

  5. Lab: Managing Microsoft 365 with PowerShell

  6. Managing users and groups in Azure AD

  7. Managing Exchange Online

  8. Managing SharePoint

  9. Managing Microsoft Teams

Learning Path 11: Using background jobs and scheduled jobs

  1. Use background jobs

  2. Use scheduled jobs

  3. Lab: Jobs management with PowerShell

  4. Starting and managing jobs

  5. Creating a scheduled job

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