🛠️ Admin Project 1 · Beginner · ~30 minutes
Service Health Audit
📋 Project brief
- Requested by
- Your manager (email, Monday 9:04 AM)
- Deadline
- Friday — service health report for all servers
- Summary
- Leadership wants to know which services are not running across the fleet, starting with
SRV01. Build the audit with PowerShell: gather the services, filter to the unhealthy ones, shape the report columns, and export it as CSV. - Deliverables
- A working
.ps1script, the CSV report, and a validation summary of what was checked.
Simulated environment — fictional server (SRV01), fictional data. Artifacts generated by simulation; they do not represent changes to a real server.
Gather services
✓ completeGet every service on SRV01 and store the result in a variable. You'll build on this variable in every later step.
To pass: a variable holding all 7 service objects (with Name, Status, StartType, DisplayName).
Filter the unhealthy ones
✓ completeFrom your gathered services, keep only the ones that are not Running. Store the filtered result in a new variable.
To pass: a variable holding exactly the non-Running services — no more, no fewer.
Shape the report
✓ completeYour manager only wants three columns: Name, Status, StartType. Project just those properties into a new variable.
To pass: a variable whose objects have exactly those 3 properties — nothing extra.
Export the CSV
✓ completeConvert your shaped report into CSV text (no type header) and store it in a variable. This becomes the downloadable report.
To pass: a variable holding valid CSV text with the header "Name","Status","StartType".
Project complete — your deliverables
The report is ready for Friday. Here's everything you built, validated step by step:
Validation summary
⚠️ Artifacts generated by simulation on fictional data; they do not represent changes to a real server. Review every line of the .ps1 before running it anywhere else.
Genie guide
Work through the four locked steps in order — gather, filter, select, export. Your deliverables assemble from your own winning commands.
Simulated environment — fictional server (SRV01), fictional data. Artifacts generated by simulation; they do not represent changes to a real server.
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