1. Server Management and Automation Windows Server 2012 R2
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Server Management and Automation Windows Server 2012 R2
Won Huh
Product Marketing Manager

2. Simplify your routine task
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Simplify your routine task
Ease of use
Windows PowerShell
Real world scenario
More intuitive
Provides greater flexibility, reducing the cost and complexity of management in a diverse datacenter ecosystem.
Greater resiliency

3. Windows PowerShell 4.0 Key features Ease of use Greater resiliency
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Windows PowerShell 4.0
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Key features
Ease of use
Integrated Scripting Environment: IntelliSense, Code Snippets.
PowerShell web access.
Greater resiliency
Robust session connectivity.
Job scheduling.
Windows PowerShell workflow.
Extensive coverage
Rich management through more than cmdlets.
Real world scenario
Domain join.
System Center integration.

4. Ease of use IntelliSense
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Ease of use
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IntelliSense
Run Windows PowerShell ISE to execute commands and write, test, and debug scripts in a single Windows-based graphic user interface with multiline editing, tab completion, syntax coloring, and selective execution.
Context-sensitive command completion for cmdlet and script names, parameter names and enumerated values, and property and method names.
Show-Command pane for finding and running cmdlets in a dialog box.

5. Ease of use Simplified Scripting
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Ease of use
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Simplified Scripting
Snippets add reusable text to scripts and commands.
Syntax simplification: Windows PowerShell 4.0 includes simplified, consistent syntax across all cmdlets.
Simplified scripting through Windows PowerShell ISE:
Built-in code snippets include templates for functions, parameters, and statements.
Users do not need to remember the syntax.

6. Extensive coverage For example Windows PowerShell 4.0
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Extensive coverage
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Windows PowerShell 4.0
For example
New modules for:
AppBackgroundTask
Defender
NetEventPacketCapture
PSDesiredStateConfiguration
SyncShare
WDS
WebApplicationProxy
WindowsSearch
Others
Comprehensive management with more than cmdlets in modules.
Many new modules that allow the use of Windows PowerShell 4.0 to manage all aspects of the datacenter.

7. Web-based Console User
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Greater resiliency
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Windows PowerShell Web Access
Corporate
Network
Server 1
Server 2
Server 3
Manage computers running Windows by using Windows PowerShell within a browser.
Broad support for popular browsers.
Built for tablets and mobile devices.
Web-based Console User
Internet
DMZ
Windows PowerShell
Web Access Gateway

8. Web-based Console User
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Robust session connectivity
Corporate
Resource
Server 1
User connects via the browser through the PowerShell Web Access Gateway to run a script on Server 1.
User loses connection to the internet.
User reconnects to internet at a later point in time and reconnects to the Windows PowerShell session which is still in a connected state and still running.
Internet
Web-based Console User
DMZ
Windows PowerShell
Web Access Gateway
Script

9. Greater resiliency Job scheduling Improve management automation.
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Job scheduling
Improve management automation.
Schedule jobs for execution at a later time, according to a particular schedule.

10. Greater resiliency Job scheduling Jobs execute based on triggers
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Job scheduling
Improve management automation.
Schedule jobs for execution at a later time, according to a particular schedule.
At startup
At logon
Daily
Weekly
Once
Jobs execute based on triggers

11. Greater resiliency Jobs execute based on triggers Jobs example 03
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At startup
At logon
Daily
Weekly
Once
Jobs execute based on triggers
# Create a job trigger based on the desired schedule and register the job
$trigger = New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 4am
Register-ScheduledJob -Name MyScheduledJob - ScriptBlock { Get-Process } -Trigger $trigger
Get-ScheduledJob
# Once the trigger has fired and the job has run, you can work with it the same way you do regular background jobs
Import-Module PSScheduledJob
$j = Get-Job -Name MyScheduledJob
Receive-Job $j
Jobs example

12. Greater resiliency Windows PowerShell Workflow 03
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Greater resiliency
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Windows PowerShell Workflow
A set of long- running activities (in sequence or in parallel) that perform complex management tasks, such as multi-machine application provisioning.
Authored using a Windows PowerShell script or the Visual Studio Workflow Designer (XAML).
Workflows survive system interruptions (reboots, network problems): suspend-job/ resume-job, persist state and metadata.

13. Real world scenarios Join-Domain through Workflow workflow Join-Domain
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Join-Domain through Workflow
workflow Join-Domain {
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory)]
        [string]$DomainName,
        [PSCredential]$DomainCredential
        )
    Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_computersystem
    Add-Computer -Credential $DomainCredential -DomainName $DomainName -LocalCredential $PSCredential
    Restart-Computer -Force -Wait }
# Usage
Join-Domain -PSComputerName <list of machines> -PSCredential <local admin credential> -DomainName <domain name> -DomainCredential <credential that can join machine to domain>