55066A: PowerShell for SharePoint Administrators — Lesson 2: Farm, Service, Web Application, and Site Automation

Learning Objectives

• Automate common farm and service application administration
• Manage web applications, site collections, sites, lists, and features
• Use safe targeting, validation, logging, and confirmation controls

Detailed Topics

• Automate common farm and service application administration: Automate common farm and service application administration
• Manage web applications: Manage web applications, site collections, sites, lists, and features
• Use safe targeting: Use safe targeting, validation, logging, and confirmation controls

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

Automate a controlled SharePoint site-administration workflow.

• 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 Farm, Service, Web Application, and Site Automation in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.