Training eligible for SCALE AI grants
Module 1 - Fundamentals
- PowerShell version 5.1 and 7.x
- Configuration and environment
- Extensions (Shell is good, but with extensions it's even better)
- Console or ISE or Visual Studio Code
- Familiar commands from the command prompt
- Commands: syntax, location, aliases, help, settings
- PsProvider: how to access hierarchical information through multiple disk drives
Module 2 - Formatting
- Output display and object type
- What to display and how to display it
- Selection or formatting: the differences
Module 3 - Pipeline and CmdLets
- What is a command pipeline
- Principles and execution of commands in pipelines
- Characteristics of objects (properties and methods)
- Which command for which result (simple command vs. plural command)
- Calculated columns
- Importing and exporting objects
- Creation of our own objects
- Filtering and looping on objects
Module 4 - WMI and CIM
Two different tools for a similar use
- Windows Management Instrumentation - control and monitoring of Windows systems.
- Common Information Model - allows connection to non-Windows systems.
- Using PowerShell remote access with CIM
- Information requests and WQL language
- Using sessions with CIM
Module 5 - Active Directory
- Module management
- Backward compatibility
- Creating objects in the Active Directory
Module 6 - Scripts
- Variables (characteristics, scope, usage, type...)
- Security (scope and limitation)
- Saving and testing
- Limits and constraints of functions in scripts, especially at the security level
- Security and certification
- Script execution rules, saving, testing, debugging, error handling
- Documentation of scripts
- Conversion of scripts into modules
Module 7 - Remote access
- The WS-MAN protocol with WinRM is reserved for certain PowerShell commands only.
- Limitations related to identification: role and access consistency
- One-to-one or one-to-many connection
- Best practices: organize remote processing and retrieve results locally
- Session management
Module 8 - Background Tasks
- Local, Remote, WMI: different functions with different characteristics
- Specific features to launch and manage a task
- Recovery of task results
Module 9 - Windows Administration
Intensive lab to consolidate learning
- Management and installation of roles on servers with the ServerManager module
- Manage group policies with the GroupPolicy module
- Use of best practice tools with the BestPractice module
- Management of web sites with the IIS module with the WebAdministration module
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