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PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook

By : Sherif Talaat, Haijun Fu
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PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook

By: Sherif Talaat, Haijun Fu

Overview of this book

<p>Technology’s growing rhythm is running faster than before, and business needs are getting more complex every day. So, it is time to learn something new to help conquer the challenge. With PowerShell in your toolbox, you can easily perform many tasks with less time, effort, and cost. PowerShell is a helpful scripting technology that enables the automation of system management tasks and the creation of system management tools.<br /><br />"PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook" comes with a set of real-world scenarios and detailed scripts that will help you get started with PowerShell, learn what PowerShell is, how to write the syntax, and build your scripts, and how to use and integrate PowerShell with different technologies, products, and tools.<br /><br />This handbook starts with the essential topics of PowerShell, then introduces the new features in PowerShell 3.0. The book then goes through building PowerShell scripts, function, and developing extensions like snap-ins and modules, and continues with detailed examples showing the usage of PowerShell with different technologies and products to give you an idea of PowerShell usage in the real world.</p>

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PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook
Sherif Talaat | Haijun Fu
Apr, 2013 | 370 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook
PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with PowerShell
Getting Started with PowerShell
Working with pipelines
Variables and objects
Looping and flow control
Lists, arrays, and hash tables
Operating script block
Functions
Scripts
Discovering what's new in Windows PowerShell 3.0
Windows PowerShell Web Access (PSWA)
Auto-loading of modules
Online and updatable Help
Scheduled jobs
The Show-Command cmdlet
Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)
PowerShell remoting
Windows PowerShell Workflow (PSW)
Summary
2
Developing Snap-ins for PowerShell
Developing Snap-ins for PowerShell
Creating a PowerShell snap-in
Writing a PowerShell snap-in
Registering and removing a PowerShell snap-in
Listing and executing cmdlets in a PowerShell snap-in
Debugging a PowerShell snap-in
Summary
3
Using PowerShell Remoting
Using PowerShell Remoting
An overview of PowerShell remoting
Enabling/disabling remoting
Executing the remoting commands
Entering an interactive remoting session
Saving a remote session to a disk
Using session configurations
Summary
4
Extending Windows PowerShell
Extending Windows PowerShell
Introduction to Windows PowerShell modules
PowerShell module types
The PSModulePath environment variable
Importing PowerShell modules
Removing PowerShell modules
Reloading PowerShell modules
Writing a PowerShell module
Storing modules on a disk
Working with multiple versions of modules
Checking PowerShell module dependencies
Signing PowerShell modules
Summary
5
Managing Core Infrastructure with PowerShell
Managing Core Infrastructure with PowerShell
Preparing the operating system for first time use
Deploying the Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) role
Managing and configuring the Domain Name System (DNS) role
Deploying and configuring the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) role
Managing Windows Firewall
Using the Best Practice Analyzer (BPA)
Summary
6
Managing Active Directory with PowerShell
Managing Active Directory with PowerShell
Active Directory-related concepts
Installing an Active Directory Domain Service (ADDS)
New AD server roles in Windows 2012
Managing Active Directory with PowerShell
Summary
7
Managing the Server with PowerShell
Managing the Server with PowerShell
Working with Server Manager cmdlets
Managing networking using PowerShell
Managing Group Policy with PowerShell
Managing IIS with PowerShell
Managing a DNS server using PowerShell
Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell
Managing AppLocker with PowerShell
Summary
8
Managing Unified Communication Environments with PowerShell
Managing Unified Communication Environments with PowerShell
What Exchange Management Shell is
How to make Windows PowerShell understand Exchange Server cmdlets
Managing Exchange using PowerShell Remoting
Getting started with Exchange scripting
What Lync Server Management Shell is
How to make PowerShell understand Lync Server cmdlets
Managing Lync using PowerShell Remoting
Getting started with Lync scripting
Microsoft Office 365
Office 365 and Windows PowerShell
Summary
9
Managing Collaboration and Data Platforms with PowerShell
Managing Collaboration and Data Platforms with PowerShell
What is SharePoint Management Shell
How to make Windows PowerShell understand the SharePoint server cmdlets
Getting started with SharePoint scripting
Managing SharePoint Online using PowerShell
Windows PowerShell Command Builder for SharePoint and Office 365
What is SQL Server PowerShell
Getting started with SQL Server scripting
Summary
10
Managing Microsoft Desktop Virtualization with PowerShell
Managing Microsoft Desktop Virtualization with PowerShell
What Desktop Virtualization is
Understanding Desktop Virtualization components
What Remote Desktop Services is
Managing RDS using PowerShell
Getting started with RDS scripting
Summary
11
Managing Microsoft Cloud Platform with PowerShell
Managing Microsoft Cloud Platform with PowerShell
What Windows Azure is
What Windows Azure PowerShell is
Installing Windows Azure PowerShell
Making Windows PowerShell understand Windows Azure cmdlets
Connecting to your Windows Azure environment
Getting started with Windows Azure scripting
Summary
12
Integrating Windows PowerShell and System Center Orchestrator
Integrating Windows PowerShell and System Center Orchestrator
Completing your ITPA story with PowerShell and Orchestrator
Summary
Index
Index

Online and updatable Help

In the previous version of PowerShell, we used the Get-Help cmdlet to show the Help information that comes embedded by default with the cmdlets. In PowerShell 3.0, the inline help has been replaced with a Help file hosted on the Internet. By default, the Get-Help cmdlet will not show you any Help information until you use the Update-Help cmdlet to download the help files from the Internet. If you are running the Get-Help cmdlet for the first time without using the Update-Help cmdlet, it will automatically prompt you to download the latest Help files from the Internet. The reason behind this is that in the previous versions of PowerShell, the Help information was static and sometimes there were mistakes as well as updates in the Help information. There was no available way to update the Help information even while using a Windows update. Thus Microsoft introduced a new update method using the Update-Help cmdlet, which gets the latest Help information from the Help files hosted on the Internet. Also, you can use the SAVE-HELP cmdlet to save the Help files locally or on shared folders so that every computer in your network can get them directly. Moreover, if you do not want to download the help files locally, you can use the Get-Help cmdlets with the –Online switch for redirecting you to the web pages that contain the Help information for the cmdlets, but you have to consider the Internet connectivity each time you use this parameter. The following screenshot shows the use of the Get-Help cmdlet:

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