Instant Windows PowerShell / Vinith Menon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menon, Vinith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scripting languages (Computer science).

Windows PowerShell (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Menon Vinith: Vinith Menon has extensive experience in the IT industry. At the beginning of his career, he was working with a leading consulting firm as a senior systems engineer managing Windows Server and the VMware virtualization environment. He was also extensively involved in automation using scripting. Later, he worked with another platinum-level consulting company as a senior software engineer and managed Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp environments for Avanade using PowerShell scripting. Vinith has done automation for tasks that earlier required manual work using Opalis and integrated them with PowerShell scripting. He has also built integration packs using PowerShell for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator. He has extensive knowledge of Hyper-V and the management of virtual machine environments using System Center Virtual Machine Manager. He has in-depth technical expertise in PowerShell scripting, Active Directory, server administration, and network management. Vinith is now part of Microsoft Business Unit Technology Evangelism with NetApp. At the moment, he is interested in the automation of various PowerShell scripting, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization, Microsoft Exchange, and System Center technologies such as SCSM, SCOM, and SCORCH 2012. As a subject matter expert of Hyper-V and PowerShell, he blogs and supports the NetApp PowerShell community. Vinith is very passionate about automation and PowerShell scripting. You can find him frequently blogging about virtualization, PowerShell, and all automation-related information that deals with Microsoft System Center, Windows Server, and client operating systems. He is also an active member of the PowerShell Bangalore User Group and loves sharing his knowledge with like-minded techies.

Summary:

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. A practical, hands-on tutorial approach that explores the concepts of PowerShell in a friendly manner, taking an adhoc approach to each topic.If you are an administrator who is new to PowerShell or are looking to get a good grounding in these new features, this book is ideal for you. It’s assumed that you will have some experience in PowerShell and Windows Server, as well being familiar with the PowerShell command-line.

Contents:

Intro

Instant Windows PowerShell

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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1. Instant Windows PowerShell

So, what is new in PowerShell 3.0?

Installation

Step 1 - what do I need?

Step 2 - downloading and installing Windows Management Framework

Step 3 - verifying that you have PowerShell v3 installed

And that's it

Quick start - configuring the default security policy in PowerShell

Top 7 features you need to know about

Using PowerShell for file and folder management in Windows Server Environment

Learning how to use PowerShell Web Access to manage your Windows Server Environment anywhere, anytime, and on any device

Step 1 - installing Windows PowerShell Web Access

Step 2 - configuring Windows PowerShell Web Access

Learning how to secure and sign the scripts you write using script signing

Learning how to manage the Active Directory environment

Resetting a user password

Disabling and Enabling a user account

Unlocking a user account

Deleting a user account

Working with groups

Adding members to a group

Enumerating the members of a group

Finding obsolete computer accounts

Disabling a computer account

Learning about the features included in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Security module

Learning how to use PowerShell to administer the PKI environment

Learning how to use the BPA module to analyze the security integrity of a system as per Microsoft standards

People and places you should get to know

Official sites

Articles and tutorials

Blogs

Twitter.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 29, 2013).

ISBN:

9781849688758

1849688753

OCLC:

862384227