55133A: PowerShell for System Center Configuration Manager Administrators — Lesson 1: Configuration Manager PowerShell Foundations

Learning Objectives

• Connect to the site drive, provider, module, and administrative context
• Discover commands and understand Configuration Manager objects
• Query devices, users, sites, boundaries, and infrastructure information

Detailed Topics

• Connect to the site drive: Connect to the site drive, provider, module, and administrative context
• Discover commands and understand Configuration Manager objects: Discover commands and understand Configuration Manager objects
• Query devices: Query devices, users, sites, boundaries, and infrastructure information

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 Configuration Manager environment inventory 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 Configuration Manager PowerShell Foundations in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.