1

Discover Windows PowerShell

• Understand the basics of PowerShell.
• Execute commands and locate cmdlets.
• Automate tasks and write simple scripts.

2

Maintain system administration tasks with PowerShell

• Manage Active Directory Domain Services with PowerShell cmdlets.
• Configure network parameters on Windows devices via PowerShell.
• Manage Windows Server settings with PowerShell.
• Administer a local Windows machine with PowerShell cmdlets.

3

Working with the Windows PowerShell pipeline

• Understanding the pipeline in Windows PowerShell.
• Select, sort and measure objects via the pipeline.
• Filter objects with Where-Object.
• List objects in the pipeline.
• Send and transmit data via pipeline output.
• Transmit objects in downstream orders.

4

Using PowerShell providers and readers

• Connect to databases with PowerShell providers.
• Using PowerShell drives.

5

Querying management information with CIM and WMI

• Review CIM and WMI.
• Query configuration information with CIM and WMI.
• Interrogate and manipulate repository objects using CIM and WMI methods.