11/24/2018 0 Comments Windows Powershell Primer EbookThis will modify all necessary settings to allow remote PowerShell sessions to connect in and out of the machine that you run it on. This means that it must be run on. Windows PowerShell Tutorial Microsoft's New Scripting Language A Windows PowerShell Tutorial My mission is to two fold. Firstly, to encourage a new generation of script writers to learn PowerShell; secondly I want to provide experienced scripters with a bank of example scripts so that they can convert to PowerShell. To newbies I want to say: 'It really will be easy to get started. You will be surprised by how many tasks on your Windows computer benefit from a PowerShell script'. To the experienced scripters I say, 'I want to build a reference library for that moment when you have forgotten the syntax for a particular PowerShell command'. Windows PowerShell Tutorial Sections • • • • • • • • To help you discover the benefits of PowerShell, I will not only provide real life tasks, but also I will add learning points. One of my greatest joys is when you modify the code in my PowerShell tutorials to fit your situation. In 2013 Microsoft released PowerShell 4.0. To you have, launch PowerShell and then type these five characters: $Host Alternatively, try $PSVersionTable. Individual PowerShell Tutorials • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •. ®• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Guy Recommends: Free WMI Monitor for PowerShell Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is one of the hidden treasures of Microsoft's operating systems. Fortunately, SolarWinds have created a so that you can discover these gems of performance information, and thus improve your PowerShell scripts. Take the guess work out of which WMI counters to use when scripting the operating system, Active Directory, or Exchange Server. Give this WMI monitor a try - it's free. Getting Started with Windows PowerShell One trigger for dabbling with Windows PowerShell is so that you can configure Exchange Server. However, I believe that the pressing reason for learning PowerShell is for issuing WMI commands. When you want to interrogate your Microsoft operating system, three lines of PowerShell will replace twenty lines of VBScript. PowerShell is free, therefore all you need is a spare half hour to experiment with the potent new Verb-Noun pairs at the PowerShell command line. • • • • • • Think of learning PowerShell as a more convenient method of configuring the server than using the corresponding GUI. I can foresee running PowerShell scripts that will diagnose server problems. With PowerShell you can run queries that are not possible from the GUI. On a good day such a script would even cure the problem - magic! To come back down to earth, let us start with a trivial example to illustrate the capability of PowerShell. As you may know, the Task Manager will display all the processes, yet with PowerShell you can not only list all processes, but also group them by company (Microsoft, HP and Roxio). All you need is this one-liner: Get-Process| group-Object company • PowerShell will achieve the same results as VBScript, but with fewer commands. For instance, PowerShell makes scripting WMI much easier, for example, try: Get-WmiObject win32_BIOS. More good news, you can even use PowerShell to replace VBScript for Active Directory scripts. • I have a sense that there is a changing of the guard; out with old CMD commands, and in with new PowerShell language. More importantly, the new PowerShell language will give you command line control of the Windows operating system; this is similar to the power that Bash commands exert over the UNIX operating system. In a nutshell: PowerShell really is the way of the future. • The main reason for learning PowerShell is so that you can administer Exchange Server, and also the Windows Servers that have succeeded Windows Server 2003. Microsoft's thinking is that the point has arrived where complex products like Exchange and Windows Server have so many menus and sub-menus to configure via a GUI, that we need an alternative. Hence the easy-to-use scripting language called PowerShell. Note: Existing Windows executables, such as Ipconfig and ping, perform in the PS Shell just as they do in the old CMD 'DOS box'. Guy Recommends: A Free Trial of the Network Performance Monitor (NPM) v11.5 SolarWinds' will help you discover what's happening on your network.
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