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Training courses for Microsoft professionals
Face to face / Virtual closed & onsite training. Restaurant lunch included at STL venues.
- 5 days Instructor-led
Syllabus
Who is this course for?
This five day course is designed for IT professionals, network technicians and IT support staff who are experienced in Windows Server support and common server applications, and are looking to Windows PowerShell as a tool to help with automation and remote administration.
Delegates are not expected to have experience with PowerShell prior to the course, nor are they expected to have prior programming or scripting experience.
Objectives
By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Appreciate the advantages of working with Windows PowerShell
- Work with the Pipeline
- Configure the Pipeline
- Work with PSDrives and PSProviders
- Prepare output for formatting
- Work with CIM and WMI
- Set up scripting
- Move from commands to scripts to modules
- Manage computers remotely
- Combine Windows PowerShell modules
- Work with background and scheduled jobs
- Understand advanced PowerShell techniques and profiles
Prerequisites
- Some experience setting up and installing Windows Server
- Some experience of managing Windows Server and Windows desktop machines
- Some experience of network adapter configuration
- Some experience of Active Directory user management
- Some experience of basic disk configuration
Course Syllabus
Module 1: Getting Started with Windows PowerShell
Overview of PowerShell
How to discover new Commands
How to run commands
Using "About" Files
Module 2: Working with the Pipeline
Overview of the Pipeline
Selecting, sorting, and measuring Objects
Converting, exporting, and importing Objects
How filter objects from the Pipeline
How to enumerating Pipeline objects
Module 3: Understanding How the Pipeline Works
Passing Pipeline data by value
Passing Pipeline data by name
Module 4: Using PSProviders and PSDrives
Understanding PSProviders
Understanding PSDrives
Creating a new folder
Creating a new PSDrive
Creating a new Registry key
Creating a new Registry setting
Modifying a WS-Management setting
Module 5: Formatting Output
Basic formatting techniques
Advanced formatting techniques
How to redirect formatted output
Reproducing output
Module 6: Querying Management Information by Using WMI and CIM
Overview of WMI and CIM
Performing data queries with CIM and WMI
Making changes with CIM and WMI
Invoking methods
Module 7: Preparing for Scripting
Working with variables
Configuring security options
Module 8: Moving From a Command to Script to Module
Moving from commands to scripts
Moving from scripts to functions to modules
Adding in error handling
Important scripting constructs
Overview of other scripting features
Creating verbose output
Creating help
Creating breakpoints
Working with multiple targets
Module 9: Administering Remote Computers
Overview of basic Remoting
Advanced Remoting techniques
Utilising Remoting sessions
Working with one-to-one Remoting and one-to-many Remoting
Implicit Remoting
Multicomputer Management
Module 10: Putting it All Together
Implementing a new instance of a server core
Creating a parameterized script
Working with dynamic IPs and DHCP
Modifying TrustedHosts
Adding roles
Module 11: Using Background Jobs and Scheduled Jobs
Overview of job types
Using a background job
Using a scheduled job
Initiating a job
Monitoring a job
Creating a scheduled job
Module 12: Using Profiles and Advanced PowerShell Techniques
Overview of advanced PowerShell functions
Creating a profile script
Implementing alternative credentials
What you get
"What do I get on the day?"
Clean, comfortable, well-maintained rest and recreation areas
Complimentary refreshments throughout the day
Message taking service for delegates.
Free access to telephone line for handling emergencies arising when out of the office.
Learning tools
Training is held in modern, comfortable, air-conditioned suites
Modern-spec IT, fully networked with internet access
12 months of post-course advise on any material covered on the course
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