Master enterprise Windows management from installation through troubleshooting and remote administration.
Creating bootable media, managing WIM files, and preparing deployment packages for mass rollout.
Deploying standardized images across fleets using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.
Your company is upgrading 500 PCs from Windows 10 to 11. The legacy image doesn't include the new TPM 2.0 driver signature. Design an automated upgrade path that handles driver gaps without user interaction.
User profiles, groups, permissions, and account policies at the workstation level.
AD domain concepts, OUs, organizational hierarchy, and bulk operations with PowerShell.
An employee leaves today. You need to disable their account, redirect their Outlook cache, move their file share to an administrator, and revoke all session tokens within 5 minutes. Document your runbook.
Understanding policy precedence, inheritance blocking, and the order of operations.
Crafting real-world GPOs for security hardening, software restrictions, and drive mapping.
The CISO wants all USB storage blocked except encrypted devices for the finance team. How do you scope this policy using security filtering and WMI filters?
Controlling Windows services, startup programs, and understanding service dependencies.
Performance Monitor, Resource Monitor, and common bottlenecks in enterprise environments.
Navigating HKLM, HKCU, hive structure, and safe modification techniques.
Policies deployed via registry vs. GPO, known-good values for common issues.
A user cannot connect to a network drive because the registry has been corrupted. Rebuild the relevant MRU list and network connection settings from scratch using HKCU\Network keys.
Installing, updating, rolling back, and troubleshooting hardware drivers.
Update rings, deferred updates, WSUS integration, and handling patch Tuesday.
Using Windows native backup features for personal and enterprise scenarios.
Volume Shadow Copy Service for instant file recovery without third-party tools.
A ransomware attack hits. Some machines have shadow copies disabled. Draft an incident response plan covering immediate containment, identification of immutable backups, and rebuilding from clean media within 2 hours.
Reading Security, System, and Application logs, custom views, and log aggregation.
Fixing corrupt system files and component store corruption systematically.
A workstation boots to a black screen. The monitor shows no output after the BIOS. Using only keyboard navigation, diagnose whether it's a display driver issue or deeper system corruption using WinRE and CMD-only tooling.
RDP configuration, gateway setups, session management, and security hardening.
Secure remote execution, PSSession configurations, and automation patterns.
You need to push a script to 200 machines but half are behind a firewall with no WinRM access. Design a fallback strategy using PSExec, SSH bastion, or RMM agent deployment to achieve the same result.