PowerShell

Manual Windows, Active Directory, cloud, and reporting tasks create operational drag when only a few administrators can script safely. This PowerShell course gives IT Directors a broad training path for systems administrators, automation owners, and senior IT Practitioners who need consistent command-line, scripting, and module skills across Windows, Linux, Azure, AWS Lambda, REST APIs, and scheduled tasks. The full curriculum is about 68 hours per learner, so Training Managers may want to assign targeted Playlists by role: foundations for onboarding, AD/Azure and OS modules for infrastructure teams, and Pester/testing, modules, formatting, and terminal UI topics for automation maintainers. Change management should include code review, testing, and staged rollout before production automation. CBT Nuggets Playlists help sequence the right modules, while Team Reporting helps Team Leads verify progress across assigned learners.

IT teams complete this PowerShell training to turn repeatable administration work into documented, testable automation instead of one-off console tasks.

• Faster administration: Teams learn to use the pipeline, control flow, functions, modules, and scripts to standardize recurring tasks.
• Stronger infrastructure operations: Administrators build skills for working with the OS, Active Directory, Azure, Linux, performance counters, and event logs.
• Better automation quality: Pester, custom formatting, IntelliSense, module authoring, and Visual Studio Code configuration support more maintainable scripts.
• Broader integration capability: Teams practice PowerShell with web content, REST APIs, AWS Lambda, scheduled tasks, notifications, and data workflows.

Knowledge

• PowerShell 7 fundamentals, help discovery, syntax, cmdlets, objects, and the pipeline.
• Control flow, functions, modules, scripts, remoting concepts, WMI/CIM, and background jobs.
• Ways PowerShell interacts with operating systems, files, data, web content, REST APIs, Active Directory, Azure, and Linux.
• Automation design patterns for recurring tasks, notifications, performance monitoring, event log collection, and business processes.
• Development practices including Visual Studio Code setup, IntelliSense, custom object formatting, module authoring, Pester testing, and regular expressions.

Ability

• Build reusable PowerShell scripts and functions for common systems administration work.
• Automate Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure, Linux, and web/API workflows from the command line.
• Package and publish reusable code through modules with improved formatting and discoverability.
• Schedule recurring automation and monitor Windows performance counters and event logs.
• Test infrastructure automation with Pester and improve script reliability before operational use.