Automating Administration with PowerShell

What you’ll learn

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the functionality of Windows PowerShell and use it to run and find basic commands.
• Identify and run cmdlets for local system administration.
• Work with the Windows PowerShell pipeline.
• Use PSProviders and PSDrives to work with other forms of storage.
• Query system information by using WMI and CIM.
• Work with variables, arrays, and hash tables.
• Write basic scripts in Windows PowerShell.
• Administer remote computers with Windows PowerShell.
• Manage Azure resources with PowerShell.
• Manage Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell.
• Use background jobs and scheduled jobs.
  

COURSE MODULES:

• Module 1: Getting started with Windows PowerShell
  • Learning Objectives
  • Why Cloud Services
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
  • Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud models
• Module 2: Windows PowerShell for local systems administration
  • Active Directory Domain Services administration cmdlets
  • Network configuration cmdlets
  • Server administration cmdlets
  • Windows PowerShell in Windows 10

• Module 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

• Module 4: Using PSProviders and PSDrives
  • Using PSProviders
  • Using PSDrives

• Module 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

• Module 6: Working with variables, arrays, and hash tables
  • Use variables
  • Manipulate variables
  • Manipulate arrays and hash tables

• Module 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