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Getting Started with PowerShell Universal

A two-day practical introduction to PowerShell Universal dashboards, automation, APIs, scheduling, authentication, and reporting.

Duration2 days
Course pathFoundation
Recommended PowerShell skillLevel 2
DeliveryPrivate company training · Remote · In person

Turn PowerShell automation into accessible web experiences, scheduled jobs, and programmable APIs.

This course introduces the platform through practical work rather than a feature-only tour.

Who this course is for

The course is designed for PowerShell administrators and engineers beginning to build internal automation platforms or evaluating PowerShell Universal.

The recommended starting point is PowerShell skill level 2.

What participants will learn

  • Understand the main PowerShell Universal components
  • Build a responsive dashboard that presents PowerShell data
  • Gather user input and trigger controlled automation
  • Schedule jobs and recurring tasks
  • Expose automation through custom REST APIs
  • Work with credentials, variables, authentication, and authorisation concepts
  • Gather, transform, report, and alert on operational data

Practical learning

Participants create a web experience, connect user input to automation, schedule work, and expose a simple API. Exercises emphasise the relationship between the interface and the PowerShell engineering behind it.

Training programme

Day 1: Introducing PowerShell Universal

  • Understand the platform and its main features
  • Install and configure an instance
  • Navigate the administration interface
  • Create a first web application

Day 2: PowerShell Universal fundamentals

  • Create APIs and understand users, tokens, security, and authentication
  • Configure a development workflow and editor
  • Schedule automation and connect user input to jobs
  • Structure reusable PowerShell Universal code in modules

Delivery

This is two days of private company training delivered remotely or in person, in English or French subject to availability.

The course is independent practical training and is not vendor-authorised certification.

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