2. Ibrahim Abdul Rahim Test Engineer Microsoft Corporation WSV402 Dan Harman Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

3. Improvements in PowerShell 2.0 Dozens of big features, thousands of fixes Remoting PowerShell ISE Advanced Functions Background Jobs Restricted Sessions Transactions Out-GridView Script Debugging New & Improved Cmdlets Hosting APIs Modules Eventing Session Pools Language Enhancements WMI Improvements Improved AD Adapter Performance Improvements Script Internationalization Parser API Support More…

4. PowerShell Architecture User Experience ShellLanguageDebugger Engine APIsExecution ContextObject Manager Managed Elements CmdletsWMICOM.NETXMLADOADSINative Commands

5. PowerShell 2.0 Themes Production Scripting Automation Environment GUI over PowerShell Language and Cmdlets

6. Production Scripting Scripts are: Easy to use Easy to share Easy to support Safe to operate Production Scripting

7. Production Scripting Features User Experience ShellLanguageDebugger Engine APIsExecution ContextObject Manager Managed Elements CmdletsWMICOM.NETXMLADOADSINative Commands Advanced Functions Debugger Enhancements Restricted Language ModulesModules TransactionsTransactions Advanced Functions Native Code

8. Production Scripting Dan Harman Program Manager Windows PowerShell

9. Universal Automation Environment Interactive or programmatic In the foreground or background Local or remote Single machine or multiple machines Synchronous or asynchronous In restricted or unrestricted environments Wide range of authentication mechanisms Simple scripting to systems programming Universal Automation

10. Automation Environment Features User Experience ShellLanguageDebugger Engine APIsExecution ContextObject Manager Managed Elements CmdletsWMICOM.NETXMLADOADSINative Commands Background Jobs Restricted Sessions Mobile Object Model EventingEventing RemotingRemoting

11. Remoting Scenarios 1:Many (fan-out): Large Scale Automation Send the script to remote machines Select properties – allows client to specify which properties to return Throttling – limits the number of concurrent operations Job support – runs commands in the background on client 1:1 (interactive): Secure Telnet Replacement Cmdline equivalent of Remote Desktop Interact with a remote machine as if it were local No Invoke-Command required Ideal for troubleshooting a remote machine Many:1 (fan-in): Delegated Administration & Hosting Hosting model for web services No tools installation required on client Constrained session environment (cmdlets, parameters, language)

12. Universal Automation Environment Ibrahim Abdul Rahim Test Engineer Windows PowerShell

13. GUI over PowerShell Layering admin GUIs on top of PowerShell Drives consistency between CLI & GUI Enables agility in delivering new GUIs Guarantees automation of GUI commands Facilitates GUI teaching command line Standardizes access to managed elements GUI over PowerShell

14. GUI over PowerShell Features User Experience ShellLanguageDebugger Engine APIsExecution ContextObject Manager Managed Elements CmdletsWMICOM.NETXMLADOADSINative Commands Session Pooling Thread Control Hosting APIs PowerShell ISE Out-GridViewOut-GridView

15. GUI over PowerShell Ibrahim Abdul Rahim Test Engineer Windows PowerShell

16. Language and Cmdlets Responding to community feedback Enhance the language Improve the engine Provide more built-in cmdlets Language and Cmdlets

17. User Experience ShellLanguageDebugger Engine APIsExecution ContextObject Manager Managed Elements CmdletsWMICOM.NETXMLADOADSINative Commands Improved Object Adapters Improved LanguageEnhancementsLanguageEnhancements New Cmdlets WMI++WMI++

18. Remoting Disable-PSSessionConfiguration Enable-PSRemoting Enable-PSSessionConfiguration Enter-PSSession Exit-PSSession Export-PSSession Get-PSSession Get-PSSessionConfiguration Import-PSSession Invoke-Command New-PSSession New-PSSessionOption New-WebServiceProxy Register-PSSessionConfiguration Remove-PSSession Set-PSSessionConfiguration Custom Sessions Disable-PSSessionConfiguration Enable-PSSessionConfiguration Get-PSSessionConfiguration New-PSSessionOption Register-PSSessionConfiguration Set-PSSessionConfiguration Unregister-PSSessionConfiguration Background Jobs Get-Job Receive-Job Remove-Job Start-Job Stop-Job Wait-Job Transactions Complete-Transaction Get-Transaction Start-Transaction Undo-Transaction Use-Transaction Debugging Disable-PSBreakpoint Enable-PSBreakpoint Get-PSBreakpoint Get-PSCallStack Remove-PSBreakpoint Set-PSBreakpoint Type Conversion Add-Type ConvertFrom-Csv ConvertFrom-StringData ConvertTo-Csv ConvertTo-Xml Diagnostics Clear-EventLog Export-Counter Get-Counter Get-Hotfix Get-WinEvent Import-Counter Limit-EventLog New-EventLog Remove-EventLog Show-EventLog Write-EventLog Computers Add-Computer Checkpoint-Computer Disable-ComputerRestore Enable-ComputerRestore Get-ComputerRestorePoint Remove-Computer Reset-ComputerPassword Restart-Computer Restore-Computer Stop-Computer Test-Connection WMI Invoke-WMIMethod Register-WMIEvent Remove-WMIObject Set-WMIInstance Other Clear-History Debug-Process Export-FormatData Get-FormatData Get-Random Import-LocalizedData Out-GridView Select-Xml Send-MailMessage Set-StrictMode Start-Process Test-ComputerSecureChannel Update-List Wait-Process Modules Export-ModuleMember Get-Module Import-Module New-Module New-ModuleManifest Remove-Module Test-ModuleManifest Eventing Get-Event Get-EventSubscriber New-Event Register-EngineEvent Register-ObjectEvent Remove-Event Unregister-Event Wait-Event WS-Man Connect-WSMan Disable-WSManCredSSP Disconnect-WSMan Enable-WSManCredSSP Get-WSManCredSSP Get-WSManInstance Invoke-WSManAction New-WSManInstance New-WSManSessionOption Remove-WSManInstance Set-WSManInstance Set-WSManQuickConfig Test-WSMan Over 100 New Built-In Cmdlets Hundreds more from partners

19. Example: Virtual Machine Self-Service Portal Dan Harman Program Manager Windows PowerShell

20. 16 Partners in Windows 7 & WS08 R2 70+ active internal partners Exchange Server Windows Diagnostics Server Manager SQL Server Active Directory Failover Clustering System Center Operations Manager Windows Backup Server Migration System Center Virtual Machine Manager Best Practices Analyzer Active Directory Rights Management Services Internet Information Services Background Intelligent Transfer Service System Center Data Protection Manager Network Load Balancing Remote Desktop Services Group Policy WS-Management AppLocker WMI

21. Community Resources Newsgroup: Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShellMicrosoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellhttp://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell PowerShell Community: http://www.powershellcommunity.orghttp://www.powershellcommunity.org Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/PowerShellhttp://channel9.msdn.com/tags/PowerShell Wiki: http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.WindowsPowerShellWikihttp://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.WindowsPowerShellWiki Script Center: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspxhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx CodePlex: http://codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=powershellhttp://codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=powershell Books PowerShell in Action by Bruce Payette http://manning.com/powershell Windows PowerShell Cookbook by Lee Holmes http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528492/index.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528492/index.html Professional Windows PowerShell Programming http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0470173939.html http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0470173939.html Many others…

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24. Related Content Breakout Sessions DAT314 Microsoft SQL Server Automation on Steroids, Including PowerShell Support SIA313 Managing Active Directory Identities with Active Directory PowerShell WCL314 Windows PowerShell for the Windows 7 Enterprise Client WSV304 Deploying and Managing Scalable Web Server Farms with IIS 7.0 WSV325 Windows PowerShell: Tips from the Expert Interactive Theater Sessions UNC03-INT Mastering Exchange Management with the Exchange Management Shell Hands-on Labs WSV08-HOL Introduction to Windows PowerShell Fundamentals WSV03-HOL Advanced Windows PowerShell Scripting WSV19-HOL Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Management and PowerShell V2 Birds of a Feather Sessions BOF01 Should Developers Care about Windows PowerShell? BOF61 Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field

25. Windows Server Resources Make sure you pick up your copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 RC from the Materials Distribution Counter Learn More about Windows Server 2008 R2: www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2008R2 Technical Learning Center (Orange Section): Highlighting Windows Server 2008 and R2 technologies Over 15 booths and experts from Microsoft and our partners Over 15 booths and experts from Microsoft and our partners

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