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Get-Intro –Name PowerShell. Jason Helmick Systems Instructor Interface Technical Training. YOU. THEM. Management Problem. Graphical management takes to much time Native command line is weak, not standardized, and limited Legacy scripting ( vbs ) is limited and unsecured
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Get-Intro –Name PowerShell Jason Helmick Systems Instructor Interface Technical Training
YOU THEM Management Problem • Graphical management takes to much time • Native command line is weak, not standardized, and limited • Legacy scripting (vbs) is limited and unsecured • No current true interactive management
Management Solution Jeffrey Snover • $Answer=Monad • June, 2005 - First public beta • April 2006 - Renamed PowerShell • Nov. 2006 - Release To The Web (RTW) • Nov. 2006 Release with Exchange 2007 • Feb. 2008 V1 released with Server 2008 • Oct. 2010 Version 2 Released Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Verb-Noun • These are designed for us! • What do you want to do?=Verbs • Who do you want?=Noun • Nouns are singular
Cmdlet Anatomy COMMAND NAME PARAMETER ARGUMENTS Always begins with a dash Cmdlet Shell Function Script Commands Native Windows Positional Arguments No Arguments, Its a Switch
3 Most important Cmdlets • Get-Help • Get-Command • Get-Member • and perhaps.... • Get-PSDrive • Get-Alias
Enough Talk…Demo • Cool Stuff • Don’t Remember any of this! • It’s all RTFM • Don’t Remember any of this….really.
Books Mike Pfeiffer Bruce Payette Don Jones Bruce Payette Lee Holmes
Other Resources • www.azposh.com • Blogs.msdn.com/b/PowerShell • PowerScripting Podcast • Twitter #PowerShell
Thank you! • Blog: www.JasonHelmick.com • E-Mail: jasonh@interfacett.com • Twitter: @theJasonHelmick