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.
Before attending this course, students must have:
Review Windows PowerShell
Understand the command syntax in Windows PowerShell
Find commands and Get-Help in Windows PowerShell
Manage Active Directory Domain Services using PowerShell cmdlets
Manage network service settings for Windows devices using PowerShell cmdlets
Manage Windows Server settings using PowerShell cmdlets
Manage settings for a local Windows machine using PowerShell cmdlets
Understand the Windows PowerShell pipeline
Select, sort, and measure objects using the pipeline
Filter objects out of the pipeline
Enumerate objects in the pipeline
Send and pass data as output from the pipeline
Pass pipeline objects
Connect with data stores using PowerShell providers
Use PowerShell drives in PowerShell
Review CIM and WMI
Query configuration information by using CIM and WMI
Query and manipulate repository objects by using CIM and WMI methods
Manage variables in Windows PowerShell scripts
Work with arrays and hash tables in Window PowerShell scripts
Create and run scripts by using Windows PowerShell
Work with scripting constructs in Windows PowerShell
Import data in different formats for use in scripts by using Windows PowerShell cmdlets
Use methods to accept user inputs in Windows PowerShell scripts
Troubleshoot scripts and handle errors in Windows PowerShell
Use functions and modules in Windows PowerShell scripts
Manage single and multiple computers by using Windows PowerShell remoting
Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques
Manage persistent connections to remote computers by using Windows PowerShell sessions
Review Azure PowerShell module
Review the features and tools for Azure Cloud Shell
Manage Azure resources with Windows PowerShell
Manage users, groups, and licenses in Azure AD by using Windows PowerShell
Manage Exchange Online by using Windows PowerShell
Manage SharePoint Online by using Windows PowerShell
Manage Microsoft Teams by using Windows PowerShell
Create and manage background jobs using Windows PowerShell
Create and manage scheduled jobs using Windows PowerShell