Introduction

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to utilize Windows PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows Server 2008. The course focuses on cmdlets, script structure and flow control, language syntax, and implementation details of scripting administrative tasks using COM, WMI, and .NET foundations.

Pre-Requisites

This course requires that students meet the following prerequisites:

• Completed Course 6430: Managing and Maintaining Windows Server 2008 Servers, or have equivalent knowledge of administrative tasks.
• Also, it is reccommended, but not required, that students have completed:

1. Course 2433: Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition and Microsoft
   Windows Script Host Essentials, or have equivalent knowledge of
   scripting and automation in Windows.

Outcomes

After completing this course, students will gain the skills to:

• Install and launch Windows PowerShell
• Implement sequences of operations by putting them together into a pipeline
• Control the formatting of the resultant set of objects that are emitted at the end of a pipeline
• Implement sequences of operations by putting them together into a script
• Implement flow control within scripts and define functions and filters to help modularize complex scripts
• Manipulate files and registry values
• Manage disk storage volumes, shadow copies, shared folders, and Terminal Server using WMI in Windows PowerShell
• Administer and maintain Active Directory directory services using Windows PowerShell
• Maintain Group Policy using Windows PowerShell
• Maintain Web services and applications using Windows PowerShell.