Microsoft Azure
Automating Administration with Powershell
About the Course: Automating Administration with Powershell
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 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
Course Objectives
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
- Experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.
- Experience with Windows Server administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
5 Days
Online/Instructor Led
MS-AZ040T00
Modules
This module will introduce you to Windows PowerShell and provide an overview of the product’s functionality. The module explains how to open and configure Windows PowerShell. It also explains how to run commands and use the built-in Help system in Windows PowerShell.
- Windows PowerShell overview
- Understand Windows PowerShell command syntax.
- Find commands and get help in Windows PowerShell
- Configuring Windows PowerShell, and finding and running commands
- Configuring the Windows PowerShell console application
- Configuring the Windows PowerShell ISE application
- Finding and running Windows PowerShell commands
- Using About files
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe key features of Windows PowerShell, and open and configure it.
- Discover, learn, and run Windows PowerShell commands.
- Find Windows PowerShell commands for performing specific tasks.
This module introduces you to the different types of cmdlets commonly used for system administration. While you can search for cmdlets each time you need to accomplish a task, it is more efficient to have at least a basic understanding of these cmdlets. This module also explains how to manage Windows 10 by using PowerShell.
- Active Directory Domain Services administration cmdlets
- Network configuration cmdlets
- Server administration cmdlets
- Windows PowerShell in Windows 10
This module introduces the pipeline feature of Windows PowerShell. The pipeline feature is included in several command-line shells such as the command prompt in the Windows operating system. However, the pipeline feature in Windows PowerShell provides more complex, flexible, and capable functionalities compared to other shells. This module provides you with the skills and knowledge that will help you use Windows PowerShell more effectively and efficiently.
- 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.
- Using PS Providers
- Using PS Drives
- Creating files and folders on a remote computer
- Creating a registry key for your future scripts
- Create a new Active Directory group.
- Use PS Providers.
- Use PS Drives.
- Query data by using CIM and WMI
- Make changes by using CIM and WMI
- Understand CIM and WMI
- Query data by using CIM and WMI
- Make changes by using CIM and WMI
- Differentiate between CIM and WMI.
- Query management information by using CIM and WMI.
- Invoke methods by using CIM and WMI.
- Use variables.
- Manipulate variables.
- Manipulate arrays and hash tables.
- Use variables.
- Manipulate variables.
- Manipulate arrays and hash tables.
- Assign a value to variables.
- Describe how to manipulate variables.
- Describe how to manipulate arrays and hash tables.
- Introduction to scripting with Windows PowerShell
- Script constructs
- Import data from files.
- Accept user input.
- Troubleshooting and error handling
- Functions and modules
- Signing a script
- Processing an array with a For Each loop
- Processing items by using If statements.
- Creating users based on a CSV file.
- Querying disk information from remote computers
- Updating the script to use alternate credential.
- Run a Windows PowerShell script.
- Use Windows PowerShell scripting constructs.
- Import data from a file.
- Accept user input for a script.
- Implement error handling for a script.
- Explain functions and modules.
- Use basic Windows PowerShell remoting.
- Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques.
- Use Possessions
- Enabling remoting on the local computer
- Performing one-to-one remoting
- Performing one-to-many remoting
- Using implicit remoting
- Describe remoting architecture and security.
- Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques.
- Create and manage persistent remoting sessions.
- Azure PowerShell
- Introduce Azure Cloud Shell
- Manage Azure VMs with PowerShell
- Manage storage and subscriptions.
- Activating the Azure subscription and installing the PowerShell Az module
- Using Azure Cloud Shell
- Managing Azure resources with Azure PowerShell
- Describe, install, and use the Azure PowerShell environment.
- Describe and use Azure Cloud Shell.
- Manage Azure VMs with PowerShell.
- Manage Azure storage accounts and subscriptions with Azure PowerShell.
- Manage Microsoft 365 user accounts, licenses, and groups with PowerShell.
- Manage Exchange Online with PowerShell
- Manage SharePoint Online with PowerShell
- Manage Microsoft Teams with PowerShell
- Managing users and groups in Azure AD
- Managing Exchange Online
- Managing SharePoint
- Managing Microsoft Teams
- Use PowerShell to manage users, groups, and licenses in Azure AD
- Manage Exchange Online with PowerShell.
- Manage SharePoint Online with PowerShell.
- Manage Microsoft Teams with PowerShell.
- Use background jobs.
- Use scheduled jobs.
- Use background jobs.
- Use scheduled jobs.
- Create and manage background jobs.
- Create and manage scheduled jobs.