Can you confidently manage and automate Windows Server environments using PowerShell? Over 90% of IT professionals now use PowerShell for automating administration, reducing repetitive tasks, and streamlining Microsoft server and cloud operations.

This AZ-040T00 Automating Administration with PowerShell training teaches IT professionals how to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows Server, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and other Microsoft platforms. The course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell commands and build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports.

You’ll learn how to automate administration of Windows servers and remote computers, schedule jobs, manage Active Directory and Microsoft 365, and use Windows PowerShell pipeline techniques. Although Windows Server is the common platform in this course, the skills you gain can be applied to a broad range of Microsoft products including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and Microsoft SQL Server.

This course teaches Azure administrators how to plan, deliver, and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps, for any device, on Azure. Lessons include implementing and managing networking for Azure Virtual Desktop, configuring host pools and session hosts, creating session host images, implementing, and managing FSLogix, monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop performance and health, and automating Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks. Students will learn through a mix of demonstrations and hands-on lab experiences deploying virtual desktop experiences and apps on Azure Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to run in multi-session virtual environments. Candidates of this course must have solid Azure administration skills. This course assumes prior experience, including virtualization, networking, identity, storage, backup and restore, and disaster recovery. Students should have knowledge of on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure technologies as they relate to migrating to Azure Virtual Desktop. Students are expected to have used the tools common to the Azure environment, such as the Azure PowerShell and Cloud Shell.