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Windows PowerShell™ Hands-On: Automating Administrative Tasks

Course: 969   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 3 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Administer workstations, servers and applications with Windows PowerShell
  • Harness .NET functionality through PowerShell cmdlets
  • Manage execution of scripts through pipelining and flow control operators
  • Leverage Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) for computer inventories and configuration
  • Manipulate local and active directory objects using the Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI)
  • Optimise PowerShell scripts through error handling

Course Benefits
Windows PowerShell is revolutionising systems administration with time-saving tools for managing servers and workstations. PowerShell increases administrator productivity by automating repetitive tasks and ensuring complex, error-prone routines are performed consistently. In this course, you gain practical experience using PowerShell to solve both one-time and recurring administrative challenges.

Who Should Attend
Administrators who want to more efficiently manage Windows systems. Windows administration experience at the level of Course 960, "Windows Server 2008 Comprehensive Introduction", or Course 595, "Windows Server 2003 Comprehensive Introduction", is assumed. Scripting experience is also helpful.

Hands-on Training
Exercises provide hands-on experience automating administrative tasks and include:
  • Implementing secure PowerShell scripts
  • Generating reports on system status and configuration
  • Reading, writing and parsing event logs
  • Configuring hardware and software with WMI
  • Creating and maintaining AD users, groups and organisational units (OUs)
  • Managing local accounts and shares
  • Administering servers, users and mailboxes
  • Optimising productivity with PowerShell profiles

Course Content
Introduction to PowerShell
  • Identifying opportunities for automation
  • Analysing shortcomings of existing automation solutions
  • Combining the functionality of a shell and scripting language
  • Expanding the scope of managed objects with the .NET Framework
PowerShell Fundamentals
Assessing the PowerShell console
  • Contrasting expression and command modes
  • Capitalising on PowerShell help
  • Navigating PowerShell drives
Configuring PowerShell
  • Preventing execution of malicious code with an enhanced security policy
  • Optimising the user environment through profiles
Invoking functionality through cmdlets
  • Streamlining scripts with simplified syntax
  • Improving productivity and maintainability through consistent command structure
Managing input and output
  • Securing interactive input using AsSecureString
  • Obtaining input from multiple file formats
  • Formatting output for clarity
  • Redirecting output to alternate locations
Manipulating PowerShell object instances
  • Reading and writing object properties
  • Driving object behaviour with method operators
Controlling Script Execution
Constructing the object pipeline
  • Pipelining objects to streamline administrative tasks
  • Isolating objects through filtering
Implementing flow control
  • Enumerating objects via foreach-object loops
  • Employing comparison operators and the Switch statement
  • Creating modular code using functions
  • Increasing the power of expressions with wildcard operators
Unleashing the power of .NET objects
  • Working with static classes and methods
  • Retrieving object information through reflection
  • Parsing remote computer event logs
Configuring Systems with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Exploiting WMI objects
  • Instantiating WMI objects
  • Conducting hardware and software inventories
Automating computer management with WMI object instances
  • Assigning properties to control computer configuration
  • Invoking methods to perform system administration
  • Harnessing powerful WMI Query Language (WQL) queries
Leveraging the Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI)
Accessing the Active Directory (AD) with the LDAP provider
  • Creating users, computer and groups
  • Efficiently altering and deleting existing objects
  • Manipulating group membership
Administering local workstations with the WinNT provider
  • Accessing local SAM databases
  • Tweaking local users and groups
Retrieving forest-wide data
  • Enumerating sites and subnets
  • Managing FSMO roles
Optimising Scripts
Troubleshooting your scripts
  • Handling runtime errors
  • Debugging your problem code
  • Enabling strict-mode processing of variables
Designing and deploying production scripts
  • Building script logic
  • Signing scripts with the Set-AuthenticodeSignature cmdlet
  • Enabling script execution through digital signatures

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Windows PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks
Course Schedule
26 - 28 Nov, 2008
London
4 - 6 Feb, 2009
London
22 - 24 Apr, 2009
London
15 - 17 Jul, 2009
London

Participants troubleshooting PowerShell scripts.

£ 1,395 - Standard Tuition
Savings Plans
£ 735 - 10-Day Training Pass
£ 995 - Flex-Training Passport
£ 900 - Short Course Vouchers
£ 1,255 - Alumni Gold Tuition

 
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