PowerShell for Automating Administration: Learn from a project-based learning course on using PowerShell to automate your admin tasks

PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language. Professionals who want to start with PowerShell and have some basic idea of the command line will find it extremely easy to understand the underlying concepts of PowerShell and will be able to integrate PowerShell with non-Microsoft products as well. Here, you will look at the PowerShell logging module, installing software with PowerShell, automation solution for daily validation reports, database interaction using PowerShell, automation for Web/App Service status, Windows Task Scheduler and scheduling PowerShell scripts to run, pulling reports from Windows event viewer using this PowerShell, looking at PowerShell advanced functions and modules, building validation, PowerShell with Windows Event Viewer, PowerShell for programming, and using PowerShell as an automation tool. You will be working on a project where you will develop a robust automation solution for ‘Application and System Validation’, which generates a consolidated HTML report in the end, displaying all different test case results. By the end of this course, you will have learned advanced-level knowledge of PowerShell scripting. You will easily automate your daily repetitive work using PowerShell scripting. All the resource files are added to the GitHub repository at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/PowerShell-for-Automating-Administration

This course is designed for students/IT professionals who desire to automate their or their team’s day-to-day manual work, system administrators, and aspirants seeking a career in IT automation. Application support analysts and cloud consultants will also gain a lot from this course. To get the most out of this course, you should have some basic understanding of the command line (Win CMD/Unix Shell), and a PC/laptop installed with Windows OS.