PowerShell

For IT leaders: Many IT teams still handle user provisioning, file transfers, and server checks by hand. That work is slow, error-prone, and hard to scale. This course helps systems administrators replace repeat tasks with tested, reusable PowerShell automation.

Role fit: Built for systems administrators and IT practitioners who manage Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure, or mixed Windows and Linux environments. Team Leads can use it to set a shared scripting standard built on modules, functions, error handling, and debugging. That way, scripts are easier to maintain no matter who wrote them.

Time investment: The PowerShell 7 track runs about 15 hours, from foundations through real-world automation, Linux, and modules. The full course totals about 54 hours. That includes reference training on PowerShell v2–4 covering remoting, WMI/CIM, background jobs, and scripting automation. This is useful for teams that still support older versions in production. Training Managers can assign only the PowerShell 7 skills, or the full path, depending on each person’s role.

Change-management notes: The remoting content covers real-world setup with certificates and trusted hosts, not lab-only shortcuts. Plan to review your org’s remoting and security policies before rolling out new scripts.

How CBT Nuggets supports the outcome: Learners practice in Virtual Labs with Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, and Ubuntu machines, so they test scripts away from production. Hands-on lab assignments and scenarios, such as streaming API data into SQL Server, connect the training to daily operations.

IT teams complete this training to turn repetitive, manual admin work into tested, repeatable PowerShell automation. Instead of one-off commands that live in someone's head, your team learns to build scripts and modules that hold up in production.

The course works through scenarios systems administrators face every week. Learners automate a daily file transfer from a server to a file share, stream API data straight into Microsoft SQL Server, and walk through real-world scripts that import users into Active Directory and monitor servers across the network. All of this is built and run against a lab network of Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, and Ubuntu Linux machines.

• Less manual effort, fewer errors: Your team finds the right command, refines it, and saves it as a script that can be rerun and serves as documentation. Recurring tasks stop depending on memory.
• Reusable tooling across the team: Building functions and packaging them into modules gives your team shared tools instead of scattered scripts.
• Faster troubleshooting: Team members walk through scripts line by line, inspect how logic runs, and apply error handling. Problems get isolated before they reach production.
• Consistent remote and cross-platform management: Practitioners use PowerShell Remoting with WinRM for one-to-one, one-to-many, persistent, and implicit sessions, run PowerShell 7 on Linux, and learn where Desired State Configuration (DSC) fits compared with Workflow.

Hands-on labs, including a capstone lab that automates a full business process, help your team practice these skills before they rely on them in production.

Knowledge

• How PowerShell works as an object-oriented shell and language: cmdlets, parameters, aliases, functions, scripts, modules, and how objects move through the pipeline
• Why modules are the foundation of production-ready automation, and how to structure, organize, and reuse code across a team
• How PowerShell Remoting is configured in real-world scenarios, including certificates and trusted hosts
• Where Desired State Configuration (DSC) and PowerShell Workflow fit, and when each one is the right tool
• Common PowerShell pitfalls, error-action behavior, and advanced error-handling edge cases that documentation often skips
• How PowerShell 7 runs across platforms, including Windows Server, Windows 10, and Ubuntu Linux

Ability

• Discover, learn, and refine commands with the built-in help system and Show-Command, then capture the result in reusable scripts
• Build automation that combines several skills into one task, such as daily file transfers to a file share or streaming API data directly into Microsoft SQL Server
• Automate repeatable administration tasks by turning tested command sequences into scripts
• Troubleshoot scripts by testing pieces one at a time, reviewing output and errors, and isolating problems before combining commands into larger automation
• Write advanced functions and scripts with reliable error handling, and compare different approaches to choose the one that performs best at scale
• Practice and validate scripts against Windows and Linux machines in a hands-on virtual lab before deploying them to production