Microsoft AZ-040T00: Certified Automating Administration With PowerShell

Module 4: Using PS Providers and PS Drives

• Using PS Providers
• Using PS Drives
• 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

• Understand CIM and WMI
• Query data by using CIM and WMI
• Make changes by using CIM and WMI
• Lab: Querying information by using WMI
• Lab: Querying information by using CIM

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

• Use variables
• Manipulate variables
• Manipulate arrays and hash tables
• Lab: Using hash tables
• Lab: Using arrays
• Lab: Working with variable types

Module 7: Windows PowerShell scripting

• Introduction to scripting with Windows PowerShell
• Script constructs
• Import data from files
• Accept user input
• Troubleshooting and error handling
• Functions and modules
• Lab: Signing a script
• Lab: Processing an array with a For Each loop
• Lab: Creating users based on a CSV file
• Lab: Processing items by using If statements
• Lab: Querying disk information from remote computers
• Lab: Updating the script to use alternate credentials

Module 8: Administering remote computers with Windows PowerShell

• Use basic Windows PowerShell remoting
• Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques
• Use PS Sessions
• 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

• Azure PowerShell
• Introduce Azure Cloud Shell
• Manage Azure VMs with PowerShell
• Manage storage and subscriptions
• Lab: Installing Azure PowerShell module
• Lab: Installing Cloud Shell
• Lab: Managing Azure resources with Azure PowerShell

Module 10: Managing Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell

• Manage Microsoft 365 user accounts, licenses, and groups with PowerShell
• Manage Exchange Online with PowerShell
• Manage SharePoint Online with PowerShell
• Manage Microsoft Teams 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

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