Microsoft PowerShell Training: Automating Administration (AZ-040)

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Install and use Windows PowerShell in Windows 10
• Use different cmdlets commands for Active Directory (AD) Domain Services (DS), network configuration, server administration, and other tasks

Lab:

• Creating a website
• Configuring network settings on Windows Server
• Creating and managing Active Directory objects

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Select, sort, measure, and enumerate objects in the PowerShell pipeline
• Filter objects out of the pipeline
• Send output consisting of pipeline data

Lab:

• Selecting, sorting, and displaying data
• Filtering objects
• Enumerating objects
• Converting objects

In this module, you will learn how to use PSProviders and PSDrives adapters to create virtual storage and manage it.

Lab:

• Creating a new Active Directory group
• Creating a registry key for your future scripts
• Creating files and folders on a remote computer

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Differentiate between the Common Information Model (CIM) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
• Access and alter management information remotely using CIM and WMI

Lab:

• Querying information by using WMI
• Querying information by using CIM
• Invoking methods

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Use and manipulate variables, arrays and hash tables
• Assign values to variables

Lab:

• Using hash tables
• Using arrays
• Working with variable types

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Package and run a Windows PowerShell command in a script
• Use Windows PowerShell scripting constructs
• Perform repetitive and complex tasks using PowerShell script
• Troubleshoot scripts and understand error actions
• Create functions and modules

Lab:

• Signing a script
• Processing an array with a ForEach 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 credentials

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Connect to one or more remote computers and instruct them to run commands with PowerShell
• Create and manage persistent remoting sessions

Lab:

• Managing multiple computers
• Using implicit remoting
• Performing one-to-many remoting
• Performing one-to-one remoting
• Enabling remoting on the local computer

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Manage Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) with PowerShell
• Use Azure Cloud Shell
• Manage Storage and Azure subscriptions with Azure PowerShell

Lab:

• Installing Azure PowerShell module
• Installing Cloud Shell
• Managing Azure resources with Azure PowerShell

In this module, you will learn how to use PowerShell to manage:

• Microsoft 365 user accounts, licenses, and groups
• Exchange Online
• SharePoint Online
• Microsoft Teams

Lab:

• Managing Exchange Online resources with Windows PowerShell
• Managing SharePoint Online with Windows PowerShell
• Managing Microsoft 365 user and group objects with Windows PowerShell
• Connecting to Microsoft 365 with Windows PowerShell

In this module, you will learn how to use background jobs and scheduled jobs and retrieve job results.

Lab:

• Starting and managing jobs
• Creating a scheduled job