About this course
This hands-on course builds practical system scripting skills in PowerShell and Python for real-world administration. You will start by mastering PowerShell fundamentals—cmdlets, syntax, help, aliases, file system providers—and progress to system management tasks like inventorying hardware/OS data, managing services and processes, testing connectivity, and composing pipelines. You will then learn...
What you'll learn
- Master PowerShell fundamentals: cmdlets, providers, help, aliases, and pipelines
- Inventory hardware and OS data and manage services, processes, and connectivity
- Write, secure, and run reusable PowerShell scripts with logging and error handling
- Automate local user and group administration in Windows environments
- Create and import Python modules and use modern tooling for robust scripts
- Administer files, directories, and paths across platforms with Python
- Understand IP addressing, ports, TCP basics, and Python socket APIs
- Build client–server socket programs and implement controlled reverse connections
- Use subprocess safely and design auditable, function-based networking code
- Complete integrated labs, quizzes, and a mini-project to validate skills
Prerequisites
Basic command-line experience and familiarity with programming concepts; prior exposure to Windows admin or Python is recommended.
- Level
- Intermediate· Level
- Duration
- 8 weeks· Duration
- Language
- English· Language
- Modules
- 13· Modules
Skills you'll gain
- PowerShell scripting
- Python scripting
- System administration
- Socket and network programming
- Secure coding practices
- Automation & orchestration
- User and group management
- Cross-platform file and path handling
- Subprocess management
- Logging and auditability
What you'll study
13 modules — work at your own pace.
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