AZ-040: Automating Administration with PowerShell

This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches.

Course Outline

This course follows the official Microsoft course outline

• Get started with Windows PowerShell
• Maintain system administration tasks in Windows PowerShell
• Work with the Windows PowerShell pipeline
• Work with PowerShell providers and PowerShell drives in Windows PowerShell
• Query management information by using Common Information Model and Windows Management Instrumentation
• Use variables, arrays, and hash tables in Windows PowerShell scripts
• Create and modify scripts by using Windows PowerShell
• Administer remote computers by using Windows PowerShell
• Manage cloud resources by using Windows PowerShell
• Manage Microsoft 365 services by using Windows PowerShell
• Create and manage background jobs and scheduled jobs in Windows PowerShell