AZ-040T00 – Automating Administration with Windows Powershell

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

Experience with Windows Server administration and networking fundamentals. Familiarity with Active Directory and general IT administration tasks. No prior PowerShell experience required.

Course Description

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.

Course Outline

Getting Started with Windows PowerShell

• PowerShell overview and key features
• Working with the PowerShell console and ISE
• Finding and running basic cmdlets

PowerShell for Administration

• Using the pipeline and filtering output
• Exporting, importing, and converting data
• Variables, arrays, and hash tables

Scripting and Automation

• Writing and running scripts
• Control flow: loops and conditionals
• Functions, modules, and error handling

Remote Management and Enterprise Tools

• PowerShell remoting
• Managing Active Directory with PowerShell
• Managing Azure and Microsoft 365 with PowerShell