Move beyond basic scripts and build real-world automation tools for your domain environment.
This course focuses on practical automation techniques for managing Active Directory environments using PowerShell version 7. It covers the transition from basic command usage to the development of functional scripts for common administrative tasks. The curriculum emphasizes a project-based approach where learners build tools within a test environment to address real-world management challenges. Participants are expected to apply these methodologies to standard administrative workflows while utilizing modern PowerShell features.
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Ex-Microsoft MVP | PowerShell & AI Automation Educator
Adam Bertram is an AI and business process automation consultant, author, and technical educator with more than two decades of experience in IT. He is the original "Adam the Automator," the name behind adamtheautomator.com (ATA Learning), where he has published hundreds of hands-on tutorials on PowerShell, Windows Server, Active Directory, cloud, and DevOps. Adam's foundation is PowerShell and infrastructure automation. He is a former six-time Microsoft MVP and one of the first Microsoft PowerShell MVPs, and he was named a PowerShell.org PowerShell Hero in 2015. He has been teaching IT pros and developers since 2015. He has authored 29 video courses for Pluralsight, ranging from PowerShell fundamentals to OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and AI agents. He also teaches on Udemy, where his courses have reached more than 13,000 learners, and on LinkedIn Learning with Learning PowerShell Core. He is the author of PowerShell for Sysadmins: Workflow Automation Made Easy (No Starch Press, 2020) and The Pester Book (Leanpub), and is also credited on Building Better PowerShell Code (Apress, 2020) and From Admin to DevOps (Leanpub, 2021). Since 2016, he has written bylined technical articles for Progress Software and Telerik, and his work has appeared in TechTarget, Redgate Simple Talk, Veeam, and business.com. As a consultant, Adam builds the automation behind real business processes: AI agents that review work before a person does, workflows that move it between the tools a team already uses, and the tests that keep it reliable. His courses take the same approach: practical, project-driven, and built by someone who actually runs the technology.
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