About the 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.

Skills gained:

• 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.
• Use PSProviders and PSDrives to work with other forms of storage.
• Query system information by using WMI and CIM.
• Work with variables, arrays, and hash tables.
• Create basic scripts in Windows PowerShell.
• Administer remote computers with Windows PowerShell.
• Manage Azure resources with PowerShell.
• Manage Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell.
• Use background jobs and scheduled jobs.

Course Syllabus

Get started with Windows PowerShell
This learning path introduces you to Windows PowerShell and provides an overview of the product’s functionality. It explains how to open and configure Windows PowerShell, run commands, and use its built-in Help system.

Maintain system administration tasks in Windows PowerShell
This learning path covers cmdlets that are commonly used for system administration tasks related to Active Directory, network configuration, server administration, and Windows 10 device administration.

Work with the Windows PowerShell pipeline
This learning path explains the purpose and use of the PowerShell pipeline and use the pipeline to sort, filter, enumerate and display output data for PowerShell cmdlets. It also explains how to pass pipeline objects.

Work with PowerShell providers and PowerShell drives in Windows PowerShell
This learning path explains two technologies: PowerShell providers and PowerShell drives, which let you work with many forms of storage by using the commands and techniques that you use to manage the file system.

Query management information by using Common Information Model and Windows Management Instrumentation
This learning path covers Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Common Information Model (CIM). These technologies help to access information about a computer. Additionally, both technologies provide local and remote access to management information from the operating system, computer hardware, and installed software.

Use variables, arrays, and hash tables in Windows PowerShell scripts
This learning path explains how to work with variables, arrays, and hash tables in Windows PowerShell scripts.

Create and modify scripts by using Windows PowerShell
This learning path explains how to create and modify scripts. It covers useful scripting techniques that include importing data from a file, accepting user input, and error handling.

Administer remote computers by using Windows PowerShell
This learning path covers remoting mainly in its default configuration, using HTTP on port 5985. It describes how to configure remoting to allow for—or require—encryption based on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Manage cloud resources by using Windows PowerShell
This learning path explains how to install the necessary modules for cloud services management and use PowerShell commands to perform simple administrative tasks on cloud resources such as Azure virtual machines, Azure storage accounts, and Azure subscriptions. The learning path also covers how to use the Azure Cloud Shell environment to perform PowerShell-based or Bash-based administration directly from the Azure portal.

Manage Microsoft 365 services by using Windows PowerShell
This learning path explains how to efficiently manage the most commonly used services in Microsoft 365, such as Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Teams.

Create and manage background jobs and scheduled jobs in Windows PowerShell
This learning path explains the jobs feature of Windows PowerShell. Jobs are an extension point in Windows PowerShell, and there are several types of jobs. Each type works slightly differently and has distinct capabilities.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Windows Server administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

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