Advanced Automated Administration with Windows PowerShell 4.0 Course Overview

Target Audience for Advanced Automated Administration with Windows PowerShell 4.0

The Advanced Automated Administration with Windows PowerShell 4.0 course is designed for IT professionals seeking to enhance their scripting skills.

Target Audience for the Course:

• Systems Administrators
• Network Administrators
• Database Administrators
• IT Professionals with experience in Windows Server management
• DevOps Engineers
• Infrastructure Automation Engineers
• Security Analysts with a focus on enterprise environment automation
• Technical Support Specialists looking to automate repetitive tasks
• Windows PowerShell Script Developers
• Cloud Systems Engineers
• IT Professionals interested in learning about Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• IT Professionals focusing on enterprise system and network management automation

Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this Advanced Automated Administration with Windows PowerShell 4.0?

Introduction to Course Learning Outcomes:

This advanced course in Windows PowerShell 4.0 equips learners with the skills to automate complex administrative tasks using advanced functions, script modules, and PowerShell workflows to enhance server management capabilities.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

• Convert commands into advanced functions to create reusable tools and extend the capabilities of PowerShell scripts.
• Build and manage script modules, encapsulating a set of functionalities for modular and organized scripting.
• Define parameter attributes and implement input validation to ensure scripts receive appropriate and expected data.
• Write functions that accept and process pipeline input, allowing for efficient data management and flow within scripts.
• Generate complex function output to handle various data structures and provide detailed results from scripts.
• Document functions using content-based help to improve usability and maintainability of PowerShell functions.
• Implement -WhatIf and -Confirm support to provide users with control over potentially destructive operations and changes.
• Utilize Microsoft .NET Framework and REST API with PowerShell to enhance scripting capabilities and interact with web services.
• Create controller scripts with user interfaces and reporting features to manage and automate administrative tasks efficiently.
• Develop and deploy Desired State Configuration (DSC) to maintain systems in a desired state and enforce configurations across environments.
• Implement Just Enough Administration (JEA) to reduce security risks by limiting administrative privileges to the minimum required.
• Debugging in Windows PowerShell to troubleshoot and resolve issues in scripts, increasing reliability and performance.
• Analyze and debug existing scripts to optimize and improve existing code bases for better efficiency and maintainability.
• Understand and implement Windows PowerShell Workflow to automate long-running tasks and manage them as workflows that can be paused, resumed, and repeated as needed.