Intro to Powershell

Presented to fwPASS on 10/23/2013

*Intro to PowerShell

*Agenda

*About PowerShell

*Syntax

*Basics

*Demos

*3rd Party utilities

*What is it?

*From wikipedia:

*Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on top of, and integrated with the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell

*Syntax Basics

*Pipeline

*Basics

*Numbers, Literals

*Variables

*Automatic Variables

*Operators – Math

*Operators – Assignment

*Operators - Comparison

*Demos

*Data – read/write

*File Handling

*3rd Party tools - PowerGUI

*3rd Party tools

*Quest PowerGUI - Script Editor http://powergui.org

*JAMS - Scheduling engine

*What else?

*Hyper-V

*SharePoint

*Active Directory

*References

*http://www.slideshare.net/dalelane/an-introduction-to-windows-powershell

*http://www.slideshare.net/spsaturdayny/brian-jackett-managing-sharepoint-2010-farms-with-powershell

*http://www.slideshare.net/rsnarayanan/powershell-tech-ed2009

*Learning Opportunities

* Microsoft Scripting Home: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/scriptcenter/dd742419.aspx

* TechNet Webinar about how to use PowerShell (5 Part Series): http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/windowsserver2008.aspx?tab=Webcasts&seriesid=101&webcastid=17428

* PowerShell Quick Reference Sheet: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=DF8ED469-9007-401C-85E7-46649A32D0E0&displaylang=en

* Microsoft Script Repository (User and Microsoft provided scripts): http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/site/search?f[0].Type=ScriptLanguage&f[0].Value=PowerShell&f[0].Text=PowerShell&f[1].Type=Tag&f[1].Value=PowerShell

* Microsoft Scripting Guy Blog (Good place for information about how to do things): http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/windows%20powershell/getting%20started/default.aspx

* PowerShell Owner’s Manual: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221100.aspx

* Converting VB Scripts to PowerShell (Reference to show the differences between the two for people that know VBS): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221101.aspx

* Task-Based Guide of PowerShell Cmdlets: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd772285.aspx

* Powershell.com: http://powershell.com

*Downloads

*Links below provided courtesy of J.R. Miller, my co-worker and fellow fwPASS’er

*http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7097 – quick reference card

*http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/windows-powershell DZone Refcardz - Signup required

*It’s not about me

*Dean Willson

*Sr. Data Architect at Aunt Millie’s Bakeries

*fwPASS http://fwPASS.org

*deanowillson@gmail.com

*LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/deanwillson

*Twitter @deanwillson

*Tech blog http://dean-o.blogspot.com

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