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PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

By : Michael Shepard, Chendrayan Venkatesan, Sherif Talaat, Brenton J.W. Blawat
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PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

By: Michael Shepard, Chendrayan Venkatesan, Sherif Talaat, Brenton J.W. Blawat

Overview of this book

Are you tired of managing Windows administrative tasks manually and are looking to automate the entire process? If yes, then this is the right course for you. This learning path starts your PowerShell journey and will help you automate the administration of the Windows operating system and applications that run on Windows. It will get you up and running with PowerShell, taking you from the basics of installation to writing scripts and performing web server automation. You will explore the PowerShell environment and discover how to use cmdlets, functions, and scripts to automate Windows systems. The next installment of the course focuses on gaining concrete knowledge of Windows PowerShell scripting to perform professional-level scripting. The techniques here are packed with PowerShell scripts and sample C# code to automate tasks. You will use .NET classes in PowerShell and C# to manage Exchange Online. In the final section, you will delve into real-world examples to learn how to simplify the management of your Windows environment. You will get to grips with PowerShell’s advanced functions and how to most effectively administer your system. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: [*] Getting Started with PowerShell by Michael Shepard [*] Windows PowerShell for .Net Developers Second Edition by Chendrayan Venkatesan and Sherif Talaat [*] Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting by Brenton J.W. Blawat

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Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this learning path covers
What you need for this learning path
Who this learning path is for
Reader feedback
Customer support
Questions
Free Chapter
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1. Module 1
1. Module 1
1. First Steps
2. Building Blocks
3. Objects and PowerShell
4. Life on the Assembly Line
5. Formatting Output
6. Scripts
7. Functions
8. Modules
9. File I/O
10. WMI and CIM
11. Web Server Administration
A. Next Steps
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2. Module 2
2. Module 2
1. Getting Started with Windows PowerShell
2. Unleashing Development Skills Using Windows PowerShell 5.0
3. Exploring Desired State Configuration
4. PowerShell and Web Technologies
5. Exploring Application Programming Interface
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3. Module 3
3. Module 3
1. Variables, Arrays, and Hashes
2. Data Parsing and Manipulation
3. Comparison Operators
4. Functions, Switches, and Loops Structures
5. Regular Expressions
6. Error and Exception Handling and Testing Code
7. Session-based Remote Management
8. Managing Files, Folders, and Registry Items
9. File, Folder, and Registry Attributes, ACLs, and Properties
10. Windows Management Instrumentation
11. XML Manipulation
12. Managing Microsoft Systems with PowerShell
13. Automation of the Environment
14. Script Creation Best Practices and Conclusion
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Bibliography
Bibliography
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Index
Index

Chapter 12. Managing Microsoft Systems with PowerShell

This chapter explores many facets of managing Microsoft systems. You will start by learning about the active directory services interface (ADSI) adapter, and how it interacts with local objects on a system. You will learn to create and delete users and groups on a local system, and also how to add and remove users from the groups you created. You then learn how to verify that users or groups exist on a system. You will then proceed to learn how to start, stop, and modify Windows services and processes on a system. This chapter ends by explaining how to get information about installed and available Windows features and how to install and remove these features from the system.

Note

This chapter explains interaction with local users and groups. For more information on Active Directory cmdlets, please refer to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617195.aspx.

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