This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use Windows 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 Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SQL Server, System Center, and more. 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.
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Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Previous Windows Server and Windows Client management knowledge and hands on experience.
- Experience installing and configuring Windows Server into existing enterprise environments, or as standalone installations.
- Knowledge and experience of network adapter configuration, basic Active Directory user administration, and basic disk configuration.
- Knowledge and hands on experience specifically with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 would be of benefit but is not essential.
Detailed Class Syllabus
Module 1: Getting Started with Windows PowerShell
Overview and Background
Finding and Learning Commands
Running Commands
Module 2: Cmdlets for administration
Active Directory administration cmdlets
Network configuration cmdlets
Other server administration cmdlets
Module 3: Working with the Windows PowerShell pipeline
Understanding the pipeline
Selecting, sorting, and measuring objects
Filtering objects out of the pipeline
Enumerating objects in the pipeline
Sending pipeline data as output
Module 4: Understanding how the pipeline works
Passing the pipeline data
Advanced considerations for pipeline data
Module 5: Using PSProviders and PSDrives
Using PSProviders
Using PSDrives
Module 6: Querying system information by using WMI and CIM
Understanding WMI and CIM
Querying data by using WMI and CIM
Making changes with WMI/CIM
Module 7: Working with variables, arrays, and hash tables
Using variables.
Manipulating variables.
Manipulating arrays and hash tables
Module 8: Basic scripting
Introduction to scripting
Scripting constructs
Importing data from files
Module 9: Advanced scripting
Accepting user input
Overview of script documentation
Troubleshooting and error handling
Functions and modules
Module 10: Administering Remote Computers
Using basic Windows PowerShell remoting
Using advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques
Using PSSessions
Module 11: Using background jobs and scheduled jobs
Using background jobs
Using scheduled jobs
Module 12: Using advanced Windows PowerShell techniques
Creating profile scripts
Using advanced techniques