System Center Configuration Manager and PowerShell Fundamentals

Would you like to learn the basics of PowerShell and be able to apply that knowledge to automate workflows in System Center Configuration Manager?

Then this lab is exactly what you’re looking for!

The first two days takes you into the automated world of PowerShell and teaches you the fundamentals like objects, arrays, conditional statements, loops and more.

For the rest of the week, we use that PowerShell-knowledge and apply it to areas within Configuration Manager. Expect a lot of demos and PowerShell samples that you can easily adapt for your organization’s environment after the course is completed.

Expert and MVP Nickolaj Andersen from TrueSec have developed this three day hands-on lab.

Basic understanding of management and configuration tasks in System Center Configuration Manager. Basic scripting knowledge in any scripting language.

Lab manual and presentations

IT-Pros

Målsättning:
After completing this lab, you’ve learned the fundamentals of PowerShell and should have good understanding on how to automate daily tasks, site management and much more in System Center Configuration Manager using PowerShell.

Detaljerad beskrivning
In this lab, you’ll learn the following:

PowerShell Fundamentals (Day 1-2)

- What is PowerShell – cmdlets, modules, aliases, profiles and drives
- Using the pipeline, objects, storing, knowing and processing data
- Functions, conditional statements, WMI, remoting and best practices

PowerShell and Configuration Manager (Day 3-5)

- Using the SMS Provider or PowerShell Module
- Device and User Collections
- Applications and Packages
- Software Updates
- Operating System Deployment
- Compliance Management and Endpoint Protection
- Manage the Configuration Manager client
- Site Administration and Hierarchy configuration
- Create console extensions and Run scripts