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title: PowerShell and Active Directory Essentials | Free Video Course
description: A free series of video tutorials created by PowerShell MVP Adam Bertram to teach you how to automate common Active Directory tasks using PowerShell.
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### Free Video Course | 3 CPE/CEU Credits

# PowerShell and Active Directory Essentials

Presented by Adam Bertram, Microsoft PowerShell MVP

Our course videos are currently down due to a video host update. We are sorting with our vendor and will have the pages updated by next week. Thank you for your patience.

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###### Skills in this course:

 PowerShell Basics | Programming | Active Directory

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“PowerShell can help you automate things from AD reporting, to Exchange mailbox creation...even control your sprinkler system.”

—Adam Bertram, Instructor

### About the Course

##### Eligible for 3 CPE/CEU credits

PowerShell and Active Directory essentials is an in-depth series of video lessons and tutorials that teach you how to automate Active Directory tasks using PowerShell.

This course will help you learn PowerShell all while applying your newly learned skill to a real world problem: Active Directory automation and reporting.

When you sign up, you immediately get access to a member’s area where you can take each lesson at your own pace.

[Complete and submit this form](https://info.varonis.com/resource/t3/cpe-verification-form-en?hsLang=en) once you finish the course for a proof-of-completion certificate.

##### About Your Instructor

Adam Bertram is an independent consultant, technical writer, trainer, and presenter. Adam specializes in consulting and evangelizing all things IT automation, mainly focused around Windows PowerShell. Adam is a Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, 2015 powershell.org PowerShell hero, and has numerous Microsoft IT pro certifications. 

[Unlock This Course](https://info.varonis.com/course/powershell-1#unclock-course)

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#### Who it's for:

- IT Pros / DevOps
- PowerShell beginners
- Active Directory Admins
- System Administrators
- Anyone with files they care about

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#### What you'll Get:

- 3 hours+ of course videos
- Frustration-free signup
- Course slides
- CPE/CEU credits!
- Interaction with other students

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#### What you'll Learn:

- PowerShell basics and syntax
- How to automate Active Directory tasks
- How to build an Active Directory Health Check tool
- How to build reports with PowerShell

### What are people saying about this course

It's hard to learn PowerShell in the abstract, this course is extraordinarily practical and hands on.

| ![icon-headshot.png](https://info.varonis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PowerShell%20Course/kevin-circle-40.png?width=40&height=40&name=kevin-circle-40.png) | Kevin Griffin, Owner, Swift Kick Software Training and Consulting |
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PowerShell is essential for the modern Windows admin. Adam knows his stuff and this course is a great entry point.

| ![icon-headshot.png](https://info.varonis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PowerShell%20Course/bret-circle-40px.png?width=40&height=40&name=bret-circle-40px.png) | Bret Fisher, DevOps Sysadmin Consultant, Docker Captain |
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I'd recommend this for both new and advanced PowerShell users. Building an AD tool is a great learning experience.

| ![icon-headshot.png](https://info.varonis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PowerShell%20Course/rod-thomas-40-circle.png?width=40&height=40&name=rod-thomas-40-circle.png) | Roderick Thomas, Software Implementation Consultant, 3M HIS |
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## Course Lessons

Watch three lessons below right now. Then register to unlock the rest.

| [![Video](https://info.varonis.com/hubfs/Varonis%20Landing/icon-play.svg)](https://info.varonis.com/course/powershell-1#) | ##### 1. [Introduction](https://info.varonis.com/course/powershell-1#) | 6:33 |
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| [![Video](https://info.varonis.com/hubfs/Varonis%20Landing/icon-play.svg)](https://info.varonis.com/course/powershell-1#) | ##### 2. [Introducing PowerShell](https://info.varonis.com/course/powershell-1#) | 23:19 |
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| ![Locked](https://info.varonis.com/hubfs/Varonis%20Landing/icon-lucked.svg) | ##### 3. Working with Active Directory | 17:32 |
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| ![Locked](https://info.varonis.com/hubfs/Varonis%20Landing/icon-lucked.svg) | ##### 4. Interrogating Active Directory Objects | 1:12:18 |
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| [![Video](https://info.varonis.com/hubfs/Varonis%20Landing/icon-play.svg)](https://info.varonis.com/course/powershell-1#) | ##### 5. [Hands Free AD Health Check Tool](https://info.varonis.com/course/powershell-1#) | 1:02:00 |
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| ![Locked](https://info.varonis.com/hubfs/Varonis%20Landing/icon-lucked.svg) | ##### 6. Building Reports with PowerShell | 21:15 |
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