Description

This training will allow you to master the new Microsoft scripting language (PowerShell 5 but also PowerShell 4) to automate administration tasks under Windows 10, 2016 and 2012 R2. You will implement PowerShell in areas as varied as networking, process management, inventory of a fleet of machines or management of the Active Directory.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Technicians, administrators and systems and network engineers.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Write scripts on Windows with PowerShell 5.x

Manage users with PowerShell scripts

Automate administrative tasks on Windows with PowerShell

Format output messages

Use background processing and processing features 'remote administration

Training program

• Language basics
  • The link between PowerShell and .NET.
  • Principle, functionality, use of commands and cmdlets.
  • Pipelines: behavior of flows and their configuration.
  • Code simplification, variable pipeline.
  • Where-objects filters, foreach loops.
  • Variables, operator types.
  • Windows ISE, environment for scripting.
• Types and operators
  • The typing system, conversion rules.
  • Variables, definition, scope.
  • Basic types.
  • Expressions regular qualifiers.
  • Operators (arithmetic, assignment, logic, string, redirection...).
  • Comparators and collections.
• Control structures and functions
  • Control structures using cmdlets.
  • Conditional structures.
  • For loop. While loop. Foreach loop.
  • Switch structure (switch).
  • Functions, scope modifiers.
  • Execution phases of a function.
  • Using functions in a pipeline.
  • Passing arguments to a script.
• Using cmdlets and modules
  • Archive management (compress-archive, expand-archive).
  • Web cmdlets (invoke-webrequest, invoke-restmethod).
  • Cmdlets to manage your servers and workstations (add-computer, restart-computer).
  • Network management cmdlets (new-net*, get-net*, get-bgprouter...).
  • Administrative cmdlets (get-event, start-process....).
  • File management (get-content, tee-object, import-csv, convertto-html and style sheets).
• Using CIM objects
  • The CIM (Common Information Model) data model. CIM and WMI.
  • New cmdlet to manage the WMi (get-cimstance, new-cimsession...).
  • Difference between get-wmiobject and get-ciminstance.
  • Listing of WMI classes, complete help.
  • Using WMI methods and properties (shares of a workstation , test for the presence of machines on the network...).
• Using .NET and COM
  • Using object libraries to manipulate system components.
  • Using .NET classes (ping, udp, credential...).
  • System classes.
  • PowerShell and the graphical interface: XAML presentation.
• Managing PowerShell modules, packages
  • How a module works. List the modules.
  • The DHCP, DNS, hyper-V module.
  • The Active Directory module.
  • Commands: find, install modules (find-module, install-module...).
  • Package management.
• Com objects
  • List available com objects.
  • New performance of com objects.
  • Creation, modification of an Excel workbook.
  • Open a PowerPoint, Word file.
• The best PowerShell cmdlets and tips
  • commands: get-random, get-process, get-service.
  • Transform text into object (ConvertFrom-String).
  • The Psedit command.
  • Creating symbolic links (new-item).
  • The basic commands get-filehash, get-disk, get-hotfix.
  • The commands and variables: new-guid, new-smbshare, new-timespan.