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.
EnrollDescribe the functionality of Windows PowerShell and perform basic commands.
Implement cmdlets for local and remote system administration.
Harness the Windows PowerShell pipeline for data management.
Automate tasks using PowerShell scripting and job scheduling.
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.
Windows PowerShell overview
Understand Windows PowerShell command syntax
Find commands and get help in Windows PowerShell
Lab: Configuring Windows PowerShell, and finding and running commands
Configuring the Windows PowerShell console application
Configuring the Windows PowerShell ISE application
Finding and running Windows PowerShell commands
Using About files
Active Directory Domain Services administration cmdlets
Network configuration cmdlets
Server administration cmdlets
Windows PowerShell in Windows 10
Lab: Performing local system administration with PowerShell
Creating and managing Active Directory objects
Configuring network settings on Windows Server
Creating a website
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
Lab: Using PowerShell pipeline
Selecting, sorting, and displaying data
Filtering objects
Enumerating objects
Converting objects
Using PSProviders
Using PSDrives
Lab: Using PSProviders and PSDrives with PowerShell
Creating files and folders on a remote computer
Creating a registry key for your future scripts
Create a new Active Directory group
Understand CIM and WMI
Query data by using CIM and WMI
Make changes by using CIM and WMI
Lab: Querying information by using WMI and CIM
Querying information by using WMI
Querying information by using CIM
Invoking methods
Use variables
Manipulate variables
Manipulate arrays and hash tables
Lab: Using variables, arrays, and hash tables in PowerShell
Working with variable types
Using arrays
Using hash tables
Introduction to scripting with Windows PowerShell
Script constructs
Import data from files
Accept user input
Troubleshooting and error handling
Functions and modules
Lab: Using scripts with PowerShell
Signing a script
Processing an array with a ForEach loop
Processing items by using If statements
Creating users based on a CSV file
Querying disk information from remote computers
Updating the script to use alternate credentials
Use basic Windows PowerShell remoting
Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques
Use PSSessions
Lab: Performing remote administration with PowerShell
Enabling remoting on the local computer
Performing one-to-one remoting
Performing one-to-many remoting
Using implicit remoting
Azure PowerShell
Introduce Azure Cloud Shell
Manage Azure VMs with PowerShell
Manage storage and subscriptions
Lab: Azure resource management with PowerShell
Activating the Azure subscription and installing the PowerShell Az module
Using Azure Cloud Shell
Managing Azure resources with Azure 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
Lab: Managing Microsoft 365 with PowerShell
Managing users and groups in Azure AD
Managing Exchange Online
Managing SharePoint
Managing Microsoft Teams
Use background jobs
Use scheduled jobs
Lab: Jobs management with PowerShell
Starting and managing jobs
Creating a scheduled job
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Aaron Steele
Casey Pense
Chris Tsantiris
Javier Martin
Justin Gilley
Kathy Le
Kelson Smith
Oussama Azzam
Pascal Rodmacq
Randall Granier