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AI-Powered Scripting and Automation for Sysadmins

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Use ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude to write, verify and run scripts — no coding experience needed.
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15 students
Created by Dan Mill
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What you'll learn

  • How to prompt AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude to generate PowerShell and Bash scripts that actually work first time
  • How to read and understand AI-generated code so you always know what a script does before you run it
  • How to identify and fix the most common mistakes AI makes in scripts including hallucinated commands, logic errors and missing error handling
  • The golden rule of verifying before you run — including a 5-step checklist and dry run techniques that prevent disasters in production
  • How to write real PowerShell scripts with AI to automate Windows Server tasks including Active Directory, disk monitoring and service health checks
  • How to write real Bash scripts with AI to automate Linux administration including user management, service checking and cron job scheduling
  • How to identify which tasks in your day-to-day IT work are worth automating and build a personal automation backlog to work through
  • How to troubleshoot AI-generated scripts that fail — with a step-by-step debugging process that works for PowerShell, Bash and Python
  • The advanced tools and techniques that take AI scripting to the next level including VS Code, GitHub Copilot and version control with Git
  • How to build your first fully automated scheduled script that runs in the background without you doing anything
This course includes:
2 total hours on-demand video
2 articles
0 downloadable resources
20 lessons
Full lifetime access
Access on mobile and TV
Certificate of completion
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Course content

Requirements

  • No prior scripting or programming experience is required — AI does the heavy lifting and this course teaches you to work with what it produces
  • (Optional) A Lab virtual machine to practice on
  • Basic familiarity with IT concepts such as what a server is, what a file system looks like, and what services and user accounts are

Description

Automate your IT workload with AI… even if you’ve never written a script before.

If you work in IT and you’re still doing repetitive tasks manually, this course will change that. AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Claude can now write scripts for you, and this course shows you exactly how to use them safely, effectively and confidently.

No prior scripting experience needed. No developer background required. Just a computer, a free AI account, and a willingness to work smarter.

What makes this course different

Most scripting courses teach you syntax first. This one teaches you results first. You’ll be running real, working scripts on Windows Server and Linux within the first hour, not spending weeks memorising commands before you get to anything useful.

AI does the code generation. You learn to read it, verify it, fix it when something goes wrong, and deploy it safely.

What you’ll be able to do by the end

By the time you finish this course you’ll know how to prompt AI to generate scripts. You’ll have a repeatable verification process that means nothing ever runs blind. And you’ll have a personal automation backlog of tasks you’ve identified in your own environment, ready to build out one script at a time.

Who this is for

This course is for system administrators, IT support staff, network and cloud admins, and anyone working in IT who wants to automate repetitive work without going through a full programming bootcamp first. If you’ve tried learning scripting before and given up, this is the course that will finally make it click, because AI removes the barrier that stopped you last time.

A note on tools

Everything in this course uses free tools. ChatGPT free tier, Microsoft Copilot, or Claude, all three are covered and all three work for everything we do.

Why this matters for your career

Automation is no longer a nice-to-have skill in IT, it’s what separates the sysadmins who move forward from the ones who stay stuck doing tickets. The ability to take a repetitive task and turn it into a script that runs without you is one of the most valuable things you can demonstrate in any IT role. This course gives you that ability, and it gives it to you faster than any traditional scripting course could.

Who this course is for:

  • System administrators who are doing repetitive manual tasks every week and want to automate them without spending months learning scripting from scratch
  • IT beginners who have always wanted to learn PowerShell or Bash but found traditional scripting courses too technical or too slow-paced
  • Network and cloud administrators who want to add automation to their skillset and make themselves more valuable in their current role
  • Helpdesk and Tier 1/2 support staff who are ready to level up and start building the skills that move them into a sysadmin role
  • Windows Server administrators who want to automate Active Directory, disk management, service monitoring and reporting tasks with PowerShell
  • Linux administrators who want to automate system health checks, user management, cron scheduling and log cleanup with Bash
  • IT professionals who have tried learning scripting before, got lost, and want a completely different approach that uses AI to remove the frustration
  • Anyone working in IT who wants to save hours every week, reduce manual errors, and build a library of automation scripts they can actually trust
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