Automating Windows Administration Using Powershell

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Introduction:

• Getting to know about Windows PowerShell
• Command Line Interface, Capabilities of PowerShell
• Basic commands and Command design structure
• Understanding the get-help in PowerShell
• Understanding the basic Syntax for PowerShell.

Getting started with Technical commands:

• Understanding the Headers
• Working with Pipeline Operator,Where-object and Syntax
• Working with Operators: Arithmetic Operators, Comparison Operators & Logical Operators

Working with Multiple Operators

• Designing a single liner Powershell command
• Formatting Options: Format-Table vs Select Object vs Format-list
• Sort-object & Common Parameters

Scripting:

• Creating your First Script file/Multiple liner.
• Input statement & Output statements in Powershell
• Understanding Variables and Variable Types in Powershell
• Working with Static and Dynamic Variable
• Importing contents from a File / Exporting the result to a file.

Looping Statements:

• If, Elseif, Else statement
• Do-while & Do-Until Statement
• For Statement
• Switch Statements
• ForEach statements
• While Statements
• Try Catch Finally statement
• Break and Continue statements
• Throw and Trap Statements

Functions and Parameters

• Understanding the Powershell Functions
• Implementing Functions and calling the Function
• Understanding the Parameters
• Passing parameters while Script execution
• Usage of Parameters in Scheduled Scripts

Remote Management

• Understanding the Powershell Modules.
• Understanding the Powershell PSSession
• Importing a PSSession from Remote server.
• Finding a Module from Internet.
• Installing and Importing a Module from PSGallery source.
• Downloading and Installing PS Modules for Cloud Technologies like Office 365, Azure and Sharepoint.
• Connecting to the PowerCLI Module and create Simple VMs.
• Remote Command Triggering
• Remote Script Triggering

Security

• Securing the Passwords
• Embedding the Passwords in the Script.

WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)

• Understanding WMI & WMI Classes
• WMI vs CIM Classes
• Scripting & Windows Remote Management using WMI.
• Custom Health Report generation using WMI and PSObject.

DSC:

• Overview and Introduction to Push method and Pull Method.

Windows Forms: Developing small GUI based applications on Powershell using Windows Forms.