By Holger Schwichtenberg
Use PowerShell to Streamline and Automate Your such a lot Time-Consuming home windows management Tasks
With home windows PowerShell, Microsoft brings leading edge console-based procedure management and scripting to home windows consumers and servers. PowerShell combines the easiest positive factors of conventional UNIX shells with the sizeable strength of the .NET Framework, delivering a constant and easy-to-use alternative for either the home windows command line and the home windows Script Host. In Essential PowerShell, famous professional Holger Schwichtenberg supplies home windows sysadmins the entire wisdom and pattern scripts they should effectively administer construction structures with PowerShell.
Schwichtenberg starts off via introducing the leading edge PowerShell structure, in addition to an important PowerShell techniques corresponding to pipelining and navigation. subsequent, he introduces the PowerShell Script Language, exhibits the safe execution of command sequences as scripts, and demonstrates tips on how to use PowerShell to entry crucial working approach interfaces resembling COM, WMI, ADSI, and ADO.NET.
After you’ve mastered the basics, Schwichtenberg provides an intensive number of PowerShell recommendations for nearly each sector of daily management. for every subject, he offers dozens of self-contained examples, all downloadable from a better half website. He covers either Microsoft’s usual PowerShell commandlets and the unfastened commandlets on hand as PowerShell group Extensions. He additionally offers a whole bankruptcy of counsel, tips, and troubleshooting ideas. assurance includes
- Understanding PowerShell’s parts and features
- Setting up your PowerShell scripting environment
- Creating and utilizing commandlets
- Using object-oriented pipelining for filtering, sorting, grouping, comparisons, calculations, and more
- Mastering PowerShell’s uniform navigation version and utilizing it with all kinds of information
- Programming command sequences with the PowerShell Script Language
- Making the main of the PowerShell console and third-party instruments
- Managing procedures, occasion logs, and registry entries
- Controlling networking, printing, and software program installation
- Manipulating energetic listing and different company prone with PowerShell
- Using PowerShell to implement greater method and community security
- Storing info in documents, records, and databases
Preface xv
Part I: Getting began with PowerShell
1: First Steps with home windows PowerShell 3
2: Commandlets 25
3: Pipelining 43
4: complex Pipelining 59
5: The PowerShell Navigation version 81
6: The PowerShell Script Language 89
7: PowerShell Scripts 115
8: utilizing type Libraries 129
9: PowerShell instruments 151
10: assistance, tips and Troubleshooting 171
Part II: home windows PowerShell in motion
11: dossier structures 205
12: files 235
13: Registry and software program 253
14: methods and prone 267
15: desktops and undefined 281
16: Networking 295
17: listing prone 313
18: person and staff administration within the energetic listing 335
19: looking out within the energetic listing 349
20: extra Libraries for energetic listing management 361
21: Databases 373
22: complicated Database Operations 389
23: safeguard Settings 401
24: complex defense management 413
PartIII: Appendices
Appendix A: PowerShell Commandlet Reference 429
Appendix B: PowerShell 2.0 Preview 445
Appendix C: Bibliography 449
Index 453
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NET application with XCopy deployment. exe that is part of the package. 14). After starting the PowerShellPlus, you will see the interactive mode. You can use any commandlet (or pipeline). When you press Return, the commandlet is executed, and the result displays in the same window. The handy feature is the IntelliSense. If you enter Get-P, you will see a drop-down list of the available commandlets that start with these letters. 14 WPS IDE in interactive mode To use the PowerShellPlus in script mode, click Code Editor and create a new script file (New/PowerShell Script) or open an existing script PS1 file (Open).
4. Aliases Functions Commandlets External commands Filenames According to Windows settings in the registry, the standard application gets started and the document is downloaded when file paths are entered. Filenames have to be marked by quotation marks only when they contain blanks. Getting Help 35 Getting Help Knowing how to get help is of primary importance when you begin using new software. This section describes the help functions included in the WPS console and external help files, too. Getting a list of Available Commands To get a list of all available commandlets, enter the following: Get-Command Patterns are also valid: ■ ■ ■ You can also use the commandlet Get-Command to gather information about what WPS regards as a command.
Ps1. Now start WPS. ps1. 8). This is not a bug; it is a security feature. 8 Script execution is prohibited by default. For our first test, we will weaken the security a little bit (just a little). We will allow scripts that reside on your local system to run. However, scripts that come from network resources (including the Internet) will need a digital signature from a trusted script author. Later in this book you learn how to digitally sign WPS scripts. You also learn to restrict your system to scripts that you or your colleagues have signed.