MS111: PowerShell for Administrators

Training: Microsoft™ - Programming Languages - Linux/Unix

IT administrators without scripting experience receive a hands-on introduction to PowerShell as Microsoft™’s cross-platform framework for automation, configuration, and system management. The course covers basic techniques and handling of scripts. Participants formulate their own tasks and work on them independently.

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Start: 2025-12-01 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-12-05 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 2.590,00 € plus VAT.

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Start: 2026-02-09 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-02-13 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 2.590,00 € plus VAT.

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Start: 2026-06-08 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-06-12 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 2.590,00 € plus VAT.

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Agenda:

  • Introduction to PowerShell
    • Goals of PowerShell developers
    • Availability, prerequisites, versions
    • First steps with PowerShell
    • Introduction for efficient work
    • The structure of PowerShell commands
    • PowerShell help
    • PowerShell shortcuts
    • Cmdlet basics
    • PowerShell Jobs
    • PowerShell version differences
    • PowerShell Core
    • Providers and the pipeline

  • .NET Framework - .NET Core - PowerShell foundation
    • Classes, methods, attributes
    • Working with WMI classes and COM objects
    • PowerShell and the registry

  • Structures in PowerShell scripts
    • Variables and operators: basics
    • If, If-Else and If-Elseif-Else loops
    • For loops
    • Working with ForEach
    • While, Do-While and Do-Until loops
    • Where-Object
    • Switch loops in PowerShell

  • Functions in PowerShell
    • Basics, structure of a function
    • Parameters, arguments, switches
    • Functions in the pipeline

  • Error handling in PowerShell
    • Error handling: basics
    • Using set-PSDebug
    • Using Try/Catch/Finally

  • PowerShell and XML
    • Reading XML files and reading data
    • Writing XML data
    • XML cmdlets

  • Windows PowerShell in practical use for:
    • Active Directory
    • Microsoft™ Exchange
    • Microsoft™ SQL Server
    • Windows Server
    • others as required (NetApp™, VMware™, clouds etc.)

Objectives:

In the training MS111 PowerShell for Administrators the following topics are covered:

  • Introduction to PowerShell
  • How to create an environment in which PowerShell can be used effectively?
  • Using PowerShell for administration and monitoring for (Windows) operating systems, Microsoft™ Exchange, MSSQL, VMware™, NetApp™, and other areas of application

Target audience:

The workshop MS111 PowerShell for Administrators is ideal for:

  • Administrators with and without programming knowledge

For participants without programming knowledge we recommend attending the course in-person at our training center in Nuremberg.

Prerequisites:

You know the tasks in your work environment and would like to complete them more reliably using PowerShell, as PowerShell is able to replace GUI-based tools for administration.

Description:

PowerShell – available as Windows PowerShell and as PowerShell Core - is a cross-platform framework from Microsoft™ for automation, configuration and system management that includes a command line interpreter including scripting language.

The basic course MS111 PowerShell for Administrators provides IT administrators without scripting background with basic insights into PowerShell as a tool and its techniques.

The tasks for this are formulated and processed by each participant themselves.
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2.590,00 € plus VAT.

(including lunch & drinks)

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