10961 PowerShell

Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell

Name: Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell
Price: 2995 CAD
Availability: InStock

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.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course students should be familiar with basic administration tasks of Windows.

Course Modules

1. Getting started with Windows PowerShell
2. Cmdlets for administration
3. Working with the Windows PowerShell pipeline
4. Understanding how the pipeline works
5. Using PSProviders and PSDrives
6. Querying system information by using WMI and CIM
7. Working with variables, arrays, and hash tables
8. Basic scripting
9. Advanced scripting
10. Administering Remote Computers
11. Using background jobs and scheduled jobs
12. Using advanced Windows PowerShell techniques