55066A: PowerShell for SharePoint Administrators — Lesson 1: SharePoint PowerShell Foundations

Learning Objectives

• Understand SharePoint administration objects and PowerShell snap-ins or modules
• Discover commands, help, objects, and pipeline behavior
• Connect safely and document administrative scope and permissions

Detailed Topics

• Understand SharePoint administration objects and PowerShell snap-ins or modules: Understand SharePoint administration objects and PowerShell snap-ins or modules
• Discover commands: Discover commands, help, objects, and pipeline behavior
• Connect safely and document administrative scope and permissions: Connect safely and document administrative scope and permissions

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Create a SharePoint inventory and command-discovery script.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply SharePoint PowerShell Foundations in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.