2. Microsoft ® shell scripting environment Gives administrators more power and command in the shell environment – Hence…PowerShell? Active Directory Module for Windows® Powershell allows for command-line and scripted operations

3. Getting Help Get-help

4. Getting Help Get-help get-acl -examples

5. Local Command Get-ACL c:\windows

6. Local commands Get-Service—returns all services running on host

7. Local commands Get-Service > services.txt—output of Get-Service redirected to file services.txt

8. Local commands Get-Service | ConvertTo-HTML | Out-File services.html—output of Get-Service piped to ConvertTo-HTML whose output is piped to Out- File services.html

9. Local commands Get-Service | ConvertTo-HTML | Out-File services.html

10. Local commands Get-Service | Select Name,Status | ConvertTo- HTML | Out-File services.html

11. Check the state/status of a service – Get-WmiObject –class Win32_Service –filter ‘name=”adws”

12. View Event log errors – Get-EventLog -LogName 'Application' -EntryType Error -Newest 5 | Select-Object -property eventid, message | Format-table -AutoSize - Wrap

13. Determine SID of local user accounts Returns the security identifier of the diplayed name. – $objUser = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount("administrator") – $strSID = $objUser.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]) – $strSID.Value

14. Determine SID of domain user accounts Returns the security identifier of the displayed name. – $objUser = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount(“domain name”, "administrator") – $strSID = $objUser.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]) – $strSID.Value

15. Saving PowerShell scripts Save commands at *.ps1

16. Must change script execution policy to run scripts. Options are: – Restricted—no scripts can be run (default). – AllSigned—only scripts signed by trusted publisher can be run – RemoteSigned—downloaded scripts must be signed by a trusted publisher – Unrestricted—no restrictions  Thunderdome!

17. Get-ExecutionPolicy—displays current policy Set-ExecutionPolicy—change policy

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