AZ-040: Automating Administration with PowerShell

This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use 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 Azure, and Microsoft 365.

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.

LEARNING PATH
Automating Administration with PowerShell

• Module 1: Review Windows PowerShell
• Module 2: Understand the command syntax in Windows PowerShell
• Module 3: Find commands and Get-Help in Windows PowerShell
• Module 4: Manage Active Directory Domain Services using PowerShell cmdlets
• Module 5: Manage network service settings for Windows devices using PowerShell cmdlets
• Module 6: Manage Windows Server settings using PowerShell cmdlets
• Module 7: Manage settings for a local Windows machine using PowerShell cmdlets
• Module 8: Understand the Windows PowerShell pipeline
• Module 9: Select, sort, and measure objects using the pipeline
• Module 10: Filter objects out of the pipeline
• Module 11: Enumerate objects in the pipeline
• Module 12: Send and pass data as output from the pipeline
• Module 13: Pass pipeline objects
• Module 14: Connect with data stores using PowerShell providers
• Module 15: Use PowerShell drives in PowerShell
• Module 16: Review CIM and WMI
• Module 17: Query configuration information by using CIM and WMI
• Module 18: Query and manipulate repository objects by using CIM and WMI methods
• Module 19: Manage variables in Windows PowerShell scripts
• Module 20: Work with arrays and hash tables in Windows PowerShell scripts
• Module 21: Create and run scripts by using Windows PowerShell
• Module 22: Work with scripting constructs in Windows PowerShell
• Module 23: Import data in different formats for use in scripts by using Windows PowerShell cmdlets
• Module 24: Use methods to accept user inputs in Windows PowerShell scripts
• Module 25: Troubleshoot scripts and handle errors in Windows PowerShell
• Module 26: Use functions and modules in Windows PowerShell scripts
• Module 27: Manage single and multiple computers by using Windows PowerShell remoting
• Module 28: Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques
• Module 29: Manage persistent connections to remote computers by using Windows PowerShell sessions
• Module 30: Review Azure PowerShell module
• Module 31: Review the features and tools for Azure Cloud Shell
• Module 32: Manage Azure resources with Windows PowerShell
• Module 33: Manage users, groups, and licenses in Microsoft Entra ID by using Windows PowerShell
• Module 34: Manage Exchange Online by using Windows PowerShell
• Module 35: Manage SharePoint Online by using Windows PowerShell
• Module 36: Manage Microsoft Teams by using Windows PowerShell
• Module 37: Create and manage background jobs using Windows PowerShell
• Module 38: Create and manage scheduled jobs using Windows PowerShell

This course is intended for IT Professionals who are already experienced in general Windows Server, Windows client, Azure, and Microsoft 365 administration, and who want to learn more about using Windows PowerShell for administration.

No prior experience with any version of PowerShell or any scripting language is assumed.

This course is also suitable for IT Professionals already experienced in server administration, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and Microsoft SQL Server.