AZ-040T00 Automating Administration with PowerShell 7 - 2022

Explore PowerShell tools and environments, compare Windows PowerShell and the ISE, learn to run as administrator, manage modules, view commands, and create simple .ps1 scripts.

Explore get-command and get-help in PowerShell, learn verb-noun syntax, wildcard searches, and saving command transcripts for efficient administration.

Learn to build PowerShell command syntax by exploring get-help, examples, and properties, and filter outputs like get computer info and get event log for targeted results.

Learn to access PowerShell 7 help files with get-help, view and save command output to files via redirection and append, and explore environment variables and aliases.

Explore managing Active Directory with PowerShell 5.1: create and move organizational units, groups, and users, set passwords non-interactively, enable accounts, and query group members.

Learn to manage device network settings with PowerShell by viewing IP interfaces, filtering for IPv4, configuring Ethernet addresses, testing connectivity, and updating DNS client settings.

Install and configure the IIS web server from PowerShell, create a site and application pool, deploy a default page, and verify accessibility via localhost on the server.

Harness the PowerShell pipeline to filter, select, and format data for admin tasks. Learn through practical examples from active directory to firewall and network commands, how multiple pipes streamline workflows.

Build and run a PowerShell report of all running services on Victoria, showing each service's startup type, status, and dependencies, and save it as victoria DC one service.txt.

Learn to use calculated properties in PowerShell to add a device column to Get-ChildItem results with Select Object and an expression that returns hostname.

Learn pipeline parameter binding in PowerShell 7 using expression parameters and variables to pass computer names between commands, with binding techniques and common pitfalls.

Learn pipeline parameter binding in PowerShell 7, filter to a single computer, and understand why a script is needed to collect services from all devices while handling offline machines.

Learn how to bind pipeline parameters to run remote PowerShell commands without scripts, using Invoke-Command and Get-Service to stop and start the bits service across multiple computers.

Apply PowerShell to stop the IP helper service across multiple machines using invoke-command with the computer-name parameter, and verify the service state while handling offline hosts.

Discover how PSProvider and PSDrive navigate the file system and registry with native commands. Create and persist drives for shared folders, including SMB shares on a remote computer.

Explore PowerShell 7 providers for file system, registry, and Active Directory, and manage directories, registry keys, and Active Directory groups using direct commands.

Learn to access devices and perform administration with Windows management instrumentation (WMI) in PowerShell, using get-wmiobject and namespaces, and secure remote access via PowerShell web access (PSWA).

Explore practical WMI commands in PowerShell to retrieve IP configurations, operating system details, and services using Get-WMIObject across namespaces, with pipeline expressions and formatted output.

Explore the differences between get-wmiobject and get-ciminstance, learn how to query Windows 32 user accounts and network adapter configurations, and remotely invoke methods to restart or manage devices.

Explore the differences between WMI and CIM in PowerShell 7, including security and network access. Learn when to use CIM over WMI for remote management and data access.

Activate PowerShell web access via GUI or a PowerShell command by installing the Windows feature. Access the PowerShell web access page on localhost and configure a certificate to enable https.

Learn to declare and manipulate variables in PowerShell 7, including types and string concatenation, and apply date-time operations and last log in filters in Active Directory.

Master PowerShell variables by saving user data to arrays and array lists and hash tables, then add, remove, and count entries, access by index, and prepare for loops and conditionals.

Stamp a PowerShell script with a code signing certificate from a certification authority to authenticate it, then enforce an all signed execution policy to prevent tampered or unauthorized scripts.

Learn how to apply a code signing certificate in PowerShell 7, set and test execution policies, sign scripts, and manage trusted publishers and CA certificates.

Learn how to use if statements and foreach loops in PowerShell to retrieve Active Directory computer names, filter and print specific items, and build a script.

Automate Active Directory user creation from a CSV with a PowerShell script, including loading the CSV, creating the organizational unit, and converting passwords to secure strings.

Learn how to capture user input with read host in PowerShell 7, store it in variables, and drive scripts with conditional logic and loops.

Enable remote learning on multiple devices using PowerShell remoting by setting execution policy to remote signed, enabling PS remoting, and validating session configurations for secure remote access.