The document provides an agenda for a PowerShell training session. It includes an introduction to PowerShell, its history and uses. The agenda covers PowerShell principles like cmdlets, objects, pipelines and syntax. It also gives rules for the session and demonstrates some basic PowerShell commands and scripts. Contact details are provided for the presenter, Jason Himmelstein, for any additional information.

1. A Journey down the rabbit hole
PowerShell for the Anxious ITPro:
Jason Himmelstein, SharePoint MVP
Office 365 Advisory Services Manager
@sharepointlhorn
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Jason’s contact & vitals
• SharePoint Server MVP
• Office 365 Advisory Services Manager
• SharePoint Community Leadership Board, Chair
• Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com
• Twitter: @sharepointlhorn
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein
• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jasonhimmelstein
• Email: jase@sharepointlonghorn.com
• Author of Developing Business Intelligence Apps for
SharePoint
– http://bit.ly/SharePointBI

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

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

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• 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?

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• 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.
– 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?

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• 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

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• 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

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

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• 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

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• 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
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Modules

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•Instances of classes
•Have properties and methods
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Objects

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

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•Chain of object processing
•Output becomes input
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PipeLine

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•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

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

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• 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 IDEISE and expect everything to work
The Do Not’s

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

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•()
– 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
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Bracketology

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Simple Hard Demos

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• Why Run-As Administrator
• How to configure icon settings
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Run-as Administrator

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

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PowerShell vs PowerShell ISE

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• PowerShell vs PowerShell ISE
• Methods
– Start-transcript
– PowerShell Profiles
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Transcription

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

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Questions & Answers

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• Jason’s info
– http://www.sharepointlonghorn.com
– jase@sharepointlonghorn.com
– @sharepointlhorn
• Seb Matthews
– http://sebmatthews.net
• Jason’s GitHub repo
– http://www.github.com/jasonhimmelstein
• The Scripting Guy
– http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/
Handy information

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

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Terms for you can Google with Bing later

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•members
•objects
•pipelines
•verb-noun
•dot sourcing
•parsing
Core Principles

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

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