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Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0
The Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 training course is available at our Cardiff training centre in Wales, which is also within easy reach of Newport, Bristol and South Wales
Overview
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to utilize Windows PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows based servers.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
•Experience with Windows networking technologies and
implementation.
•Experience with Windows Server administration, maintenance, and
troubleshooting
•Experience with Active Directory technologies and implementation,
including Group Policy.
•Experience with Windows Server 2008 Web application server
technologies and implementation.
Course Outline
Module 1: Fundamentals for Using Windows PowerShell
v2
This module provides background on Windows PowerShell v2
and where it fits into the Windows technology family. It also
covers installation and configuration of Windows PowerShell. It
familiarizes students with the interactive shell console, and shows
how to operate and interpret the built-in help system. This module
focuses on shell's discoverability features, including the online
help system and cmdlet inventory. Finally, this module describes
how the Windows PowerShell pipeline works at a basic level.
Lessons
•Windows PowerShell Technology Background and Overview
•Windows PowerShell as an Interactive Command-Line Shell
•Using the Windows PowerShell Pipeline
Module 2: Understanding and Using the Formatting
System
This module explains how the PowerShell formatting
subsystem works, and shows how to customize the output of cmdlets.
It covers the rules that the shell follows for formatting objects
by default, and explains how to use the four formatting cmdlets -
and their parameters - to customize and control the output
displayed on-screen or written to a file, printer, or other output
destination.
Lessons
•Understanding the Formatting System
•Using the Formatting System
Module 3: Core Windows PowerShell Cmdlets
This module describes several core cmdlets that are used
in many different administrative tasks. This module also covers the
basics of filtering objects that are in the PowerShell pipeline. It
explains advanced pipeline techniques including pipeline parameter
binding and in-pipeline object manipulation.
Lessons
•Core Cmdlets for Everyday Use
•Comparison Operators, Pipeline Filtering, and Object
Enumeration
•Advanced Pipeline Techniques
Lab : Using the Core Cmdlets
Module 4: Windows Management Instrumentation
This module explains what Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) is, how it works, and how it can be used from
within Windows PowerShell. It describes the structure and security
of WMI, and how to query WMI information both from local and remote
computers. It also explains how to invoke WMI methods to accomplish
configuration changes and other tasks, and how to write commands
that respond to WMI events triggered by the operating system.
Lessons
•Windows Management Instrumentation Overview
•Using Windows Management Instrumentation
Lab : Using WMI in Windows PowerShell
Module 5: Automating Active Directory
Administration
This module introduces the concept of Active Directory
administrative automation. It explains how to retrieve, create,
modify, move, and remove objects in the Active Directory. It
focuses on PowerShell-centric techniques rather than scripting, and
heavily leverages on basic and advanced pipeline techniques covered
in previous modules.
Lessons
•Active Directory Automation Overview
•Managing Users and Groups
•Managing Computers and Other Directory Objects
Module 6: Windows PowerShell Scripts
This module introduces basic Windows PowerShell scripts
that execute a batch of shell commands in a single operation. It
points out the security concerns associated with scripting, and how
to configure and control the shell's security settings that relate
to scripting. It also explains how to write basic scripts that
execute batches of commands, and how to parameterize scripts in
order to make them more flexible in a variety of situations.
Lessons
•Script Security
•Basic Scripts
•Parameterized Scripts
Module 7: Background Jobs and Remote
Administration
This module explains how to work with Windows PowerShell's
background jobs and remote administration functionality. It shows
how to create, monitor, and manage local background jobs, and
receive results from completed jobs. It also covers how to
configure Windows PowerShell remoting both locally and in a domain
environment. This module describes how to create and manage session
connections to remote computers, and explain how to use those
session connections in one-to-one remote shell instances as well as
one-to-many remote command invocation. Finally, it shows how to
invoke remote commands as background jobs, and how to manage those
jobs and receive results from them.
Lessons
•Working with Background Jobs
•Using Windows PowerShell Remoting
Module 8: Advanced Windows PowerShell Tips and
Tricks
This module introduces several advanced Windows PowerShell
techniques. While these techniques do not contribute directly to
any particular business goal, they do enable more efficient use of
the shell itself, which leads to more efficient administration and
automation. It shows how to use profiles to consistently configure
the shell environment, and how to use several techniques for
effectively re-using and sharing existing modularized scripts. It
also points out best practices and techniques related to script
documentation.
Lessons
•Using Profiles
•Re-Using Scripts and Functions
•Writing Comment-Based Help
Module 9: Automating Windows Server 2008 R2
Administration
This module gives an opportunity to complete several
real-world administration tasks related to Windows Server 2008 R2.
It provides minimal instruction in how to use the cmdlets and
techniques required to accomplish the lab portion of this module;
instead, it lets students rely on the skills they have learned in
the preceding modules of this course.
Lessons
•Windows Server 2008 R2 Modules Overview
•Server Manager Cmdlets Overview
•Group Policy Cmdlets Overview
•Troubleshooting Pack Overview
•Best Practices Analyzer Cmdlets Overview
•IIS Cmdlets Overview
Module 10: Reviewing and Reusing Windows PowerShell
Scripts
One of the core skills administrators need is the ability
to take a script that someone else has written, review that script
to understand what it does, and identify areas of that script that
may need to be modified to run in their environment. Those skills
are exactly what this module tries to build.
Lessons
•Example Script Overview
•Understanding Scripts
Module 11: Writing Your Own Windows PowerShell
Scripts
This module explains the concepts and techniques related
to structured scripting and programming within Windows PowerShell.
It describes how to create, manage, and use variables. It
introduces the complete "scripting language" of Windows PowerShell,
which consists of several programming constructs. This module also
covers advanced topics and techniques related to structured
programming within Windows PowerShell. It explains how to trap and
handle errors that occur during script execution, and also
describes the proper techniques and practices for debugging a
script that is not executing as expected. It shows how to
modularize scripts into a variety of reusable functions, with the
ultimate goal of producing a function that mimics the structure of
a shell cmdlet.
Lessons
•Variables, Arrays, Escaping, and More Operators
•What is Scope?
•Scripting Constructs
•Error Trapping and Handling
•Debugging Techniques
•Modularization
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