1. Jason Himmelstein, MVP Senior Technical Director, SharePoint @sharepointlhorn

2. Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com Twitter: @sharepointlhorn LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jasonhimmelstein Email: jase@sharepointlonghorn.com

3. Introduction What is it? History The Why Core principles Do's & Do not's Practical application Functional Explanation Wrap up Agenda

4. Do as I say not as I do Ask questions Be patient! Pray to the demo & Cloud gods Rules for today

5. It isn't: – Fire and forget – A packaged executable – Developer-centric – Too hard for an ITPro It is: – Command line environment – Microsoft technology holistic – A swiss army knife with a chain saw – The future of ITPro's world What is it?

6. Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on.NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems.Microsoftcommand-lineshellscripting language.NET FrameworkCOMWMI –Definition from Wikipedia What is it really –PowerShell is an object-based, not text-based, command-line interface for Microsoft Technologies What does that mean: –Results in PowerShell can be acted upon, not just read from What is it?

7. Started internally at Microsoft in 2002 Demo'ed at PDC in 2003 - early stage Private beta Public Beta in June 2005 April 2006 changed the name to PowerShell PowerShell v1 for RTW on Nov 14 2006 PowerShell v2 was released in Aug 2009 as a part of Win7 & Server 2008 R2 PowerShell v3 was released as a part of Win8 & Server 2012 PowerShell v4 is coming as a part of Server 2012 R2 History

8. Why did Microsoft create PowerShell & move more to a PowerShell world than a GUI world? What is it used for: –Deployment –Configuration –Management –Administration –Development The Why

9. The "hardware" PowerShell Console vs PowerShell ISE The terminology Shell Command-lets - "cmdlets" Variables Pipeline Scripts Functions Modules The Basics

10. Main building block of PowerShell Mini Commands that perform one action Actually.NET Classes that can easily be created if new functionality is required The output of one cmdlet can be piped into further cmdlets Equality test with expressions such as –eq –lt –match cmdlets

11. Script –A script module is a file (.psm1) that contains any valid Windows PowerShell code. Binary –A binary module is a.NET Framework assembly (.dll) that contains compiled code. Manifest –A module manifest is a Windows PowerShell data file (.psd1) that describes the contents of a module and determines how a module is processed. Dynamic –A dynamic module is a module that does not persist to disk. created using New-Module, intended to be short-lived and cannot be accessed by Get-Module Modules 11

12. Instances of classes Have properties and methods Objects 12

13. Properties and Methods of an object –Properties – what an object is –Methods – what you can do with the object Members 13

14. Chain of object processing Output becomes input PipeLine 14

15. Get-verb –Gets approved Windows PowerShell verbs Get-member –Listing the Properties and Methods of a Command or Object Get-history –If you didn’t start transcript, you can still review your history before closing your Shell or ISE window Functional Explanation

16. Use variables Only one thing at a time Comment your scripts Create scripts using an ISE\IDE, execute in shell Dispose of your objects \ code Test before using in Production Write re-usable scripts The Do’s

17. Vary your variables Hard code your scripts Take code from the internet or vendor & just RUN in your environment Assume that code is not harmful… it is. Run your code in an IDE\ISE and expect everything to work The Do Not’s

18. Comment –# Add –+ Equal –= –-eq Not Equal –! –-ne –-not PowerShell Syntax 18

19. () –Curved brackets (Parenthesis) are used for required options, compulsory arguments, or control structures {} –Curly brackets are used for block expression within a command block –Used to open a code block [] –Square Brackets are used to denote optional elements or parameters –Also used for math functions Bracketology 19

20. Simple Hard Demos

21. Why Run-As Administrator How to configure icon settings Run-as Administrator 21

22. Using PowerShell to add a server to a farm Writing your own scripts using functions Add-Server2Farm 22

23. PowerShell vs PowerShell ISE 23

24. PowerShell vs PowerShell ISE Methods –Start-transcript –PowerShell Profiles Transcription 24

25. Creation script –New folders –New files.ps1.bat –Adds content to files –Adds shortcut to the All Users Startup folder PowerShell Profiles 25

26. Easy to Medium Demos

27. Wicked Hard Demos

28. Questions & Answers

29. Jason’s info – http://blog.sharepointlonghorn.com http://blog.sharepointlonghorn.com – jase@sharepointlonghorn.com jase@sharepointlonghorn.com – @sharepointlhorn Seb Matthews – http://sebmatthews.com http://sebmatthews.com SharePoSH Virtual Users Group – http://www.shareposh.com/ http://www.shareposh.com/ PowerShell.org – http://www.powershell.org http://www.powershell.org The Scripting Guy –http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/ Handy information

30. Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com Twitter: @sharepointlhorn LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jasonhimmelstein Email: jase@sharepointlonghorn.com

31. Terms for you can Google with Bing later

32. members objects pipelines verb-noun dot sourcing parsing Core Principles

33. Shell cmdlets* Blocks/regions Scripts Functions Modules* Profiles Core principles (i)

34. Objects* Members* Pipelines* Verb-Noun Dot sourcing Parsing Providers Core principles (ii)