AZ-040T00: Automate Administration with PowerShell

About this course

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. Audience Profile This course is intended for IT Professionals who are already experienced in general Windows Server, Windows client, Azure, and Microsoft 365 administration, and who want to learn more about using Windows PowerShell for administration. No prior experience with any version of PowerShell or any scripting language is assumed. This course is also suitable for IT Professionals already experienced in server administration, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Instructor-led training for professionals and companies in Chile. Request dates, schedules, seats and commercial terms. Training hours and daily scheduling follow Netsolutions planning and are confirmed in the commercial proposal.

Course syllabus

1. Get started with Windows PowerShell
2. Review Windows PowerShell
3. Understand the command syntax in Windows PowerShell
4. Find commands and Get-Help in Windows PowerShell
5. Maintain system administration tasks in Windows PowerShell
6. Manage Active Directory Domain Services using PowerShell cmdlets
7. Manage network service settings for Windows devices using PowerShell cmdlets
8. Manage Windows Server settings using PowerShell cmdlets
9. Manage settings for a local Windows machine using PowerShell cmdlets
10. Work with the Windows PowerShell pipeline
11. Understand the Windows PowerShell pipeline
12. Select, sort, and measure objects using the pipeline
13. Filter objects out of the pipeline
14. Enumerate objects in the pipeline
15. Send and pass data as output from the pipeline
16. Pass pipeline objects
17. Work with PowerShell providers and PowerShell drives in Windows PowerShell
18. Connect with data stores using PowerShell providers
19. Use PowerShell drives in PowerShell
20. Query management information by using Common Information Model and Windows Management Instrumentation
21. Review CIM and WMI
22. Query configuration information by using CIM and WMI
23. Query and manipulate repository objects by using CIM and WMI methods
24. Use variables, arrays, and hash tables in Windows PowerShell scripts
25. Manage variables in Windows PowerShell scripts
26. Work with arrays and hash tables in Windows PowerShell scripts
27. Create and modify scripts by using Windows PowerShell
28. Create and run scripts by using Windows PowerShell
29. Work with scripting constructs in Windows PowerShell
30. Import data in different formats for use in scripts by using Windows PowerShell cmdlets
31. Use methods to accept user inputs in Windows PowerShell scripts
32. Troubleshoot scripts and handle errors in Windows PowerShell
33. Use functions and modules in Windows PowerShell scripts
34. Administer remote computers by using Windows PowerShell
35. Manage single and multiple computers by using Windows PowerShell remoting
36. Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques
37. Manage persistent connections to remote computers by using Windows PowerShell sessions
38. Manage cloud resources by using Windows PowerShell
39. Review Azure PowerShell module
40. Review the features and tools for Azure Cloud Shell
41. Manage Azure resources with Windows PowerShell
42. Manage Microsoft 365 services by using Windows PowerShell
43. Manage users, groups, and licenses in Microsoft Entra ID by using Windows PowerShell
44. Manage Exchange Online by using Windows PowerShell
45. Manage SharePoint Online by using Windows PowerShell
46. Manage Microsoft Teams by using Windows PowerShell
47. Create and manage background jobs and scheduled jobs in Windows PowerShell
48. Create and manage background jobs using Windows PowerShell
49. Create and manage scheduled jobs using Windows PowerShell