Microsoft 365 - Automating Administration with PowerShell

Curriculum

Course AZ-040T00: Automating Administration with PowerShell

Module 1: Getting started with Windows PowerShell

• Lab: Configuring the Windows PowerShell console application
• Lab: Configuring the Windows PowerShell ISE application
• Lab: Finding and running Windows PowerShell commands
• Lab: Using Help and About files

Module 2: Windows PowerShell for local systems administration

• Lab: Creating a website
• Lab: Configuring network settings on Windows Server
• Lab: Creating and managing Active Directory objects

Module 3: Working with the Windows PowerShell pipeline

• Lab: Selecting, sorting, and displaying data
• Lab: Filtering objects
• Lab: Enumerating objects
• Lab: Converting objects

Module 4: Using PSProviders and PSDrives

• Lab: Create a new Active Directory group
• Lab: Creating a registry key for your future scripts
• Lab: Creating files and folders on a remote computer

Module 5: Querying management information by using CIM and WMI

• Lab: Querying information by using WMI
• Lab: Querying information by using CIM
• Lab: Invoking methods

Module 6: Working with variables, arrays, and hash tables

• Lab: Using hash tables
• Lab: Using arrays
• Lab: Working with variable types

Module 7: Windows PowerShell scripting

• Lab: Signing a script
• Lab: Processing an array with a ForEach loop
• Lab: Processing items by using If statements
• Lab: Creating users based on a CSV file
• Lab: Querying disk information from remote computers
• Lab: Updating the script to use alternate credentials

Module 8: Administering remote computers with Windows PowerShell

• Lab: Managing multiple computers
• Lab: Using implicit remoting
• Lab: Performing one-to-many remoting
• Lab: Performing one-to-one remoting
• Lab: Enabling remoting on the local computer

Module 9: Managing Azure resources with PowerShell

• Lab: Installing Azure PowerShell module
• Lab: Installing Cloud Shell
• Lab: Managing Azure resources with Azure PowerShell

Module 10: Managing Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell

• Lab: Managing Exchange Online resources with Windows PowerShell
• Lab: Managing SharePoint Online with Windows PowerShell
• Lab: Managing Microsoft 365 user and group objects with Windows PowerShell
• Lab: Connecting to Microsoft 365 with Windows PowerShell

Module 11: Using background jobs and scheduled jobs

• Lab: Starting and managing jobs
• Lab: Creating a scheduled job