Target Audience for PowerShell for Administration
This PowerShell for Administration course equips IT professionals with automation and scripting skills for efficient system management.
Target Audience and Job Roles:
- System Administrators
- Network Administrators
- IT Professionals involved in Windows systems management
- DevOps Engineers
- Cloud Infrastructure Engineers
- Security Analysts with a focus on Windows environments
- Help Desk Technicians looking to automate repetitive tasks
- Database Administrators who manage Windows servers
- Active Directory Administrators
- IT Managers overseeing Windows Server environments
- Microsoft Azure Administrators
- Microsoft 365 Administrators
- Technical Support Engineers
- Windows PowerShell Script Developers
- Infrastructure Architects with a focus on automation
- Professionals preparing for Microsoft certification exams related to PowerShell
- Anyone interested in learning automation and scripting in Windows environments
Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this PowerShell for Administration?
Introduction to the PowerShell for Administration Course Learning Outcomes
This PowerShell for Administration course equips students with the skills to automate and streamline administrative tasks across Windows, Azure, and Microsoft 365 environments using PowerShell.
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
- Gain a foundational understanding of Windows PowerShell's capabilities, command syntax, and help system.
- Acquire the ability to administer local system configurations including Active Directory, network settings, and server management using PowerShell cmdlets.
- Learn to effectively utilize the PowerShell pipeline to select, sort, measure, filter, and enumerate objects.
- Understand how to work with PSProviders and PSDrives to access various data stores.
- Develop skills to query, modify, and manage system information using CIM and WMI.
- Master the use of variables, arrays, and hash tables to store and manipulate data within PowerShell scripts.
- Create, debug, and manage scripts incorporating flow control, user input, and error handling for automating repetitive tasks.
- Implement PowerShell remoting techniques to administer remote computers and use PSSessions for persistent connections.
- Manage Azure and Microsoft 365 resources including VMs, storage, user accounts, and services like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Teams.
- Understand and implement background and scheduled jobs to automate tasks and workflows.
- Apply advanced PowerShell automation techniques to manage Active Directory and Azure resources, including automation accounts, DevOps, and Azure Functions.
- Adopt best practices for writing effective PowerShell scripts and managing credentials securely within an administrative context.
