1. Get-Intro –Name PowerShell Jason Helmick Systems Instructor Interface Technical Training

2. MANAGEMENT PROBLEM Graphical management takes to much time Native command line is weak, not standardized, and limited Legacy scripting (vbs) is limited and unsecured No current true interactive management YOUTHEM

3. MANAGEMENT SOLUTION $Answer=Monad June, 2005 - First public beta April 2006 - Renamed PowerShell Nov. 2006 - Release To The Web (RTW) Nov. 2006 Release with Exchange 2007 Feb. 2008 V1 released with Server 2008 Oct. 2010 Version 2 Released Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Jeffrey Snover

4. POWERSHELL INTERFACE

5. Verb-Noun o These are designed for us! o What do you want to do?=Verbs o Who do you want?=Noun o Nouns are singular

6. CMDLET ANATOMY Cmdlet Shell Function Script Commands Native Windows COMMAND NAMEPARAMETERARGUMENTS Positional Arguments Always begins with a dash No Arguments, Its a Switch

7. 3 MOST IMPORTANT CMDLETS Get-Help Get-Command Get-Member and perhaps.... Get-PSDrive Get-Alias

8. Enough Talk…Demo o Cool Stuff o Don’t Remember any of this! o It’s all RTFM o Don’t Remember any of this….really.

9. Books Bruce Payette Lee Holmes Don Jones Mike Pfeiffer

10. Other Resources o www.azposh.co m o Blogs.msdn.com/ b/PowerShell o PowerScripting Podcast o Twitter #PowerShell

11. Thank you! o Blog: www.JasonHelmick.com o E-Mail: jasonh@interfacett.com o Twitter: @theJasonHelmick