ONLINE TRAINING COURSE OUTLINES

Windows PowerShell Fundamentals

Description

Learn to use Microsoft's new environment for Windows and server administration: Windows PowerShell! This course assumes no prior experience, and guides you through the essentials of what PowerShell is, how it works, why you can't afford to live without it, and most importantly, how to use it to make everyday administrative tasks faster, easier, and more consistent.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should have 1-2 years (or more) of Windows operating system administration, and should be familiar with Active Directory and other server administrative tasks.

Course Outline

Architecture and Overview

Navigating Your System

Key Cmdlets for Windows Administration

The PowerShell Pipeline

Objects in the Pipeline: Grouping, Sorting, and More

Security Features

WMI Overview and Use

Basic Pipeline Filtering & Comparison Operators

AD Overview and Use

More Key Cmdlets

Scripting Overview

Objects, Variables, Arrays, Escapes

Working with Scope in PowerShell

Advanced Operators

Scripting Constructs: PowerShell's Scripting Language

Modularization: Creating PowerShell Scripts, Scriptblocks, and Functions

Windows PowerShell Intermediate

Description

Use PowerShell more effectively! This course covers intermediate topics such as error handling, debugging, regular expressions, advanced modularization techniques, advanced object manipulation, and much more. You'll be a more refined and efficient administrator by leveraging more of PowerShell's flexible and powerful capabilities.

Prerequisites

This is not an introductory course. Before taking this course, students should have completed "Windows PowerShell Fundamentals," or have at least 2-3 months of solid experience using Windows PowerShell.

Course Outline

Advanced Filtering and Cmdlet Techniques

Variables and Literals are Objects; Exploring Data Types

Error Trapping and Handling

Debugging Techniques

Regular Expressions

Advanced Modularization: Filtering Functions and Custom Objects

Saving and Exporting Objects