Microsoft Powershell Automating Administration (AZ-040)

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Getting started with Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell overview
Understanding Windows PowerShell command syntax
Find commands and getting help in Windows PowerShell

Lab: Configuring the Windows PowerShell console application
Lab: Configuring the Windows PowerShell ISE application
Lab: Finding and running Windows PowerShell commands
Lab: Using Help and About files

Windows PowerShell for local systems administration

Active Directory Domain Services administration cmdlets
Network configuration cmdlets
Server administration cmdlets
Windows PowerShell in Windows 10

Lab: Creating a website
Lab: Configuring network settings on Windows Server
Lab: Creating and managing Active Directory objects

Working with the Windows PowerShell pipeline

Understand the pipeline
Select, sort, and measure objects
Filter objects out of the pipeline
Enumerate objects in the pipeline
Send and pass pipeline data as output

Lab: Selecting, sorting, and displaying data
Lab: Filtering objects
Lab: Enumerating objects
Lab: Converting objects

Using PSProviders and PSDrives

Using PSProviders
Using PSDrives

Lab: Create a new Active Directory group
Lab: Creating a registry key for your future scripts
Lab: Creating files and folders on a remote computer

Querying management information by using CIM and WMI

Understand CIM and WMI
Query data by using CIM and WMI
Make changes by using CIM and WMI

Lab: Querying information by using WMI
Lab: Querying information by using CIM
Lab: Invoking methods

Working with variables, arrays, and hash tables

Use variables
Manipulate variables
Manipulate arrays and hash tables

Lab: Using hash tables
Lab: Using arrays
Lab: Working with variable types

Windows PowerShell scripting

Introduction to scripting with Windows PowerShell
Script constructs
Import data from files
Accept user input
Troubleshooting and error handling
Functions and modules

Lab: Signing a script
Lab: Processing an array with a ForEach loop
Lab: Processing items by using If statements
Lab: Creating users based on a CSV file
Lab: Querying disk information from remote computers
Lab: Updating the script to use alternate credentials

Administering remote computers with Windows PowerShell

Use basic Windows PowerShell remoting
Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques
Use PSSessions

Lab: Managing multiple computers
Lab: Using implicit remoting
Lab: Performing one-to-many remoting
Lab: Performing one-to-one remoting
Lab: Enabling remoting on the local computer

Managing Azure resources with PowerShell

Azure PowerShell
Introduce Azure Cloud Shell
Manage Azure VMs with PowerShell
Manage storage and subscriptions

Lab: Installing Azure PowerShell module
Lab: Installing Cloud Shell
Lab: Managing Azure resources with Azure PowerShell

Managing Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell

Manage Microsoft 365 user accounts, licenses, and groups with PowerShell
Manage Exchange Online with PowerShell
Manage SharePoint Online with PowerShell
Manage Microsoft Teams with PowerShell

Lab: Managing Exchange Online resources with Windows PowerShell
Lab: Managing SharePoint Online with Windows PowerShell
Lab: Managing Microsoft 365 user and group objects with Windows PowerShell
Lab: Connecting to Microsoft 365 with Windows PowerShell

Using background jobs and scheduled jobs

Use background jobs
Use scheduled jobs

Lab: Starting and managing jobs
Lab: Creating a scheduled job