Lab 6, Exercise 1, Task 2, Step 6: Typo
Either replace "haven't signed in" with "have signed in" or replace "-gt" with "-lt".

Note that none of the users in the domain except for Administrator have ever logged in, so the result set will probably be empty either way. :-)

Exercise: 2 Creating a scheduled job

Lab: 11

Task: 3

Step: 13

Description of issue: TypeText is wrong.

Error: TypeText will copy "-ExecutionPolicy Bypass E:\Labfiles\Mod11" and leave off the directory
Several closing tags (**) for the TypeText are in the wrong places closing the TypeText to early.

Lab/Demo: Using PowerShell pipeline (the first one)

Exercise 2: Filtering objects

Task 5: Create a report that displays specified Control Panel items

What is this trying to achieve? To list all the items in the System and Security category and in only that category. One item (Power Options) is in two categories, so it should be excluded.

Get-ControlPanelItem -Category "System and Security" `
| where { -not ($PSItem.Category -notlike "*System and Security*") } `
| sort name `
| ft name, category

Since the Category property is a collection (note the braces), there is a much better way of doing this - the Count property. This also avoids the use of a double negative, a frequent source of confusion.

Get-ControlPanelItem -Category "System and Security" `
| where { $PSItem.Category.count -eq 1 } `
| sort name `
| ft name, category

Note that Get-ControlPanelItem is not in PowerShell 7.

Module: 10

Lab/Demo: 10

Task: 2

Step: 04

Description of issue
To create a new Azure AD user, in the console, enter the following command, and then select Enter:
New-AzureADUser -DisplayName "Noreen Riggs" -UserPrincipalName [email protected] -AccountEnabled $true -PasswordProfile $PasswordProfile -MailNickName Noreen

SHOULD BE
To create a new Azure AD user, in the console, enter the following command, and then select Enter: Replace "yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com" with the correct name of your default domain. You can get this from the Default Directory Overview in the portal. The Default directory name is a modified version of your Global admin email address.

The same for Task 3: Create and license a new user Step 1 & 2 & 9

Repro steps:

Module: 03

Exercise: 01

Task: 06

Steps: 01 & 2

Description of issue

Duplicate Step

Test-NetConnection LON-DC1

Repro steps:
https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-040T00-Automating-Administration-with-PowerShell/blob/master/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_03_Working_with_Windows_PowerShell_Pipeline.md#task-6-display-information-from-the-dns-name-resolution-cache

Module: LAB_AK_11_Using_background_jobs_and_scheduled_jobs

Lab/Demo: 1

Task: 00

Step: 4

Description of issue
You need to inject an instruction here to enable remoting, remember this is a client O/S we are trying to run a remoting session to...

4. Enable-PSRemoting -Force
5. <This will be the old step 4>

Repro steps:

Because this is asking us to run an invoke command to a client O/S the OS needs to be told to turn on remoting, The current labs are failing because of this. I ran the Enable-PSRemoting -Force command and re-ran the failing commands and it now works.

Module: 10

Lab/Demo: 00

Task: 01

Step: 7

Description of issue
Get-AzureADUser and any other commands that create any resources do not work. get error msg

Get-AzureADUser needs the -TenantID parameter for this to work
SHOULD BE

1. Connect-AzureAD
2. GetAzureADTenantDetail # to get the Azure TenantID
3. Connect-AzureAD -TenantID "" #connect to the correct TenantID

Repro steps:

Module: 01

Exercise: 02

Task: 02

Step: 1b

Description of issue
Step states:
b. Select the Hide Script Pane up-arrow icon to display the console.

New step: The new option is press CTL + R to toggle the console pane.

Repro steps:
https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-040T00-Automating-Administration-with-PowerShell/blob/master/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_01_Configuring_Windows_PowerShell_finding_and_running_commands.md#task-2-customize-the-appearance-of-the-ise-to-use-the-single-pane-view-hide-the-command-pane-and-adjust-the-font-size

Module: 10

Lab/Demo: 10

Task: 01

Step: 04

Description of issue
Connect-ExchangeOnline fails with error msg

Please check the Exchange, Sharepoint and Teams portion of this lab. None of them work
Repro steps:

Description of issue: TypeText code blocks are copying in "powershell" before the appropriate powershell code. Also causes wrong CSS for UI. Found in various steps.

Example of Error:

Example of Proper TypeText:

/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_05_Making_changes_by_using_CIM_and_WMI.md

Exercise 1: Querying Information by using WMI
Task 4: Query Service information
Step1
Step2
Step3

Exercise 2: Querying information by using CIM
Task 1: Query user accounts
Step1
Step2
Step3
Task 3: Query network adapter configuration information
Step1
Step2

Exercise 3: Invoking methods
Task 1: Invoke a CIM method
Step1
Task 2: Invoke a WMI method
Step1
Step2

There may be more in other files, but these were the ones brought to my attention.

Module: 10

Lab/Demo: 10

Task: All

Step: All

The AzureAD, AzureADPreview and MSOnline Modules are deprecated and due to cease working on June 30, 2023:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-azure-ad-blog/microsoft-entra-change-announcements-september-2022-train/ba-p/2967454#:~:text=for%20Header%20keys.-,Azure%20AD%20Graph%20API,-Azure%20AD%20Graph

Exercise 1 in Lab 10 will need to be updated to use the Microsoft.Graph Module instead of the AzureAd Module, otherwise exercise 1 will cease to work after June 30, 2023.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/microsoftgraph/migration-steps?view=graph-powershell-1.0

There are two labs called "Lab answer key: Using PowerShell pipeline". Can we get the names changed to distinguish them please.

The Skillable lab provider only displays the names of the labs, not the numbers, so there is no way to distinguish them.

Either change the titles, or maybe number the second lab's exercises 3 and 4 instead of 1 and 2.

Or (better still) put the lab number inside the lab's markdown.

Lab: 09

Exercise: 01

Task: 02

Step: 07

PowerShell 7 needs to be updated from 7.1 to 7.3. Currently, it fails to recognize the Connect-AzAccount cmdlet in step 7 [p1]. Updating powershell (for newtonsoft.json) or downgrading the az module(s) should address that; alternatively, the other version of PowerShell accessible in the VM will be able to complete the cmdlets instructed in the lab with no issue [p2].

[p1]

[p2]

Module : LAK 09

Exercise : 03

Task: 01

Step: 04

Description of issue

PowerShell 7 doesn't recognise Az commands. Command fails on Ex 3 Task 1 step 4.
This command executes without issue in PowerShell 5.

PS 7 version information included (screenshot).

https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-040T00-Automating-Administration-with-PowerShell/blob/master/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_09_Azure_resource_management_with_PowerShell.md#task-1-create-an-azure-vm-by-using-powershell

Is it in the roadmap to update AZ-040T00 with capabilities of PowerShell 7 on Linux etc. and remove older Windows PowerShell details?

@sdwheeler, from the PowerShell content team, asked to contact the Learning team.
PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC#330 (comment)

And Kim Spilker, from Learning, asked to submit an issue on GitHub during the Oct 12 MCT Special Session.

Module: 10

Lab: 01

Task: 01-04

Step: 03-all

Description of issue
Task 1 Step 3 Install-Module AzureAD and all steps in Lab 1
deprecation date for MS Online, AzureAD, and AzureAD Preview PowerShell modules to March 30, 2024.
Must Install-Module Microsoft.Graph
All command syntax must be rewritten using the MG commands.

Repro steps: N/A

Module: 03

Lab/Demo: 01

Module 3 has a two-hour lab covering quite a few different topics. The 10961 had four separate labs instead.

Having students practice smaller chunks of knowledge is more conductive to learning. Plus there's more flexibility with timing without having to tell students to do the lab one Exercise at a time. What does everyone here think?

Lab 2 breaks the network of CL1 and apparently assumes, that there would be a Revert feature. The ALH, however, does not have a Revert feature.

In the first five labs, of the answer key side, it states Labs instead of Lab answer key. Here is the list:

https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-040T00-Automating-Administration-with-PowerShell/blob/master/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_01_Configuring_Windows_PowerShell_finding_and_running_commands.md

https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-040T00-Automating-Administration-with-PowerShell/blob/master/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_02_Administering_local_systems_using_PowerShell.md

https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-040T00-Automating-Administration-with-PowerShell/blob/master/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_03_Working_with_Windows_PowerShell_Pipeline.md

https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-040T00-Automating-Administration-with-PowerShell/blob/master/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_04_Using_PSProviders_and_PSDrives.md

https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-040T00-Automating-Administration-with-PowerShell/blob/master/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_05_Making_changes_by_using_CIM_and_WMI.md

You can see later, the answer key starts using "Lab Answer Key" as shown in this example:

https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-040T00-Automating-Administration-with-PowerShell/blob/master/Instructions/Labs/LAB_AK_07_Windows_PowerShell_Scripting.md

Could we have "Lab Answer Key" added to the first five for consistency please?

Thank you.