AUTOMATING ADMINISTRATION with Windows PowerShell

About the Course:

This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating the 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, and Microsoft Azure. 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 those products, will serve as an example of the techniques this course teaches.

Course Objective:

• Describe the functionality of Windows PowerShell and use it to run and find basic commands.
• Work with variables, arrays, and hash tables.
• Understand PowerShell fundamentals - Data types, Conditional statements, Loops, Functions, Execution policy, etc.
• Write basic scripts in Windows PowerShell.
• Manage Azure resources with PowerShell.

Who is the Target Audience?

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

Basic Knowledge:

• No prior experience with any version of PowerShell or any scripting language is assumed.