1. PowerShell for Windows Admins By Aaron Nelson *(Mostly) SQLvariant.com My Blog SQLPowerShell.com PowerShell specific blog posts I’m not a PowerShell Expert. Just a PowerShell enthusiast. Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

2. PowerShell for Windows Admins PowerShell 2.0 brings a lot of functionality to help you automate interaction with your servers. 2.0 itself brings a script editor that was missing. Apparently ripped off from VS 2010 *(in a good way) Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

3. Why PowerShell PowerShell brings one huge thing to the table (for me): The Pipeline Technically the whole ‘relies on the.Net Framework’ thing is pretty big too but for me… The second biggest thing is the insanely generous community Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

4. PowerShell Bolt-Ons In addition to the out of the box PowerShell features there are some ‘expansion packs’ in the form of Snap-Ins and Modules. The Snap-Ins for SQL Server are SqlServerCmdletSnapin100 SqlServerProviderSnapin100 Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

5. PowerShell Bolt-Ons Be sure to check out the PowerShell Community Extensions on CodePlex: http://pscx.codeplex.com/ http://pscx.codeplex.com/ Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

6. PowerShell Has Friends Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

7. ApplicationVersionCmdletsProvider Managemen t GUI Exchange Server2007402Yes Windows Server2008Yes No Microsoft SQL Server2008Yes No System Center Operations Manager200774YesNo System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007Yes System Center Data Protection Manager 2007YesNo Windows Compute Cluster Server2007Yes No Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino [37]Lotus Domino [37] 08.02.001247No Microsoft PowerTools for Open XML [38]Open XML [38] 1.033No List obtained from Wikipedia Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

8. IBM WebSphere MQ [39] 6.0.2.244No Quest Management Shell for Active Directory [40] 1.140No Special Operations Software Specops Command [41] [41] 1.0YesNoYes VMwareVMware Infrastructure Toolkit [42]Infrastructure Toolkit [42] 1.5157No Internet Information Services [43] 7.054YesNo Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition [44] 1.6YesNoYes Windows 7Windows 7 Troubleshooting Center [45] [45] 6.1YesNoYes Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010YesNo Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

9. Helpful Blogs http://blogs.technet.com/HeyScriptingGuy/ http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/ http://thepowershellguy.com/ http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/ http://sev17.com/ http://powerscripting.net/ Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

10. June 25 th – 26 th 2010 Knoxville, TN Speakers / Open Spaces / Panels Devs / IT Pros / Entrepreneurs $55 / May 2nd - $79 / May 3rd Before April 20th Vote for Sessions Lunch, T-Shirt, Prizes http://CodeStock.org Twitter: @CodeStock

11. Books! Finally Available!! Great and even has lots of scripts on the CD Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson

12. More Books Surprisingly Helpful Excellent but skip to chapter 7 (2 nd Edition, several new chapters) Buy this today! Copyright 2010 By Aaron Nelson