A technical overview of PowerShell. See http://blogs.msdn.com/allandcp/archive/2009/03/11/powershell-to-the-people-the-aftermath.aspx for more background and resources.

1. Windows PowerShell: A Technical Overview “ Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue” Allan da Costa Pinto Windows PowerShell Fanboy Microsoft [email_address] http://blogs.msdn.com/allandcp

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8. http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/01/14/windows-7-troubleshooting.aspx

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10. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES14/ ASP.NET on Server Core Integrated PowerShell Provider Integrated FTP and WebDAV New IIS Manager Modules Configuration Logging & Tracing Best Practices Analyzer

11. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES06/

12. IIS/WAS Quadrant IIS Manager WF and WCF Frameworks Persistence SQL Persistence Provider Management APIs ( PowerShell command-lets) WF and WCF Management Modules Runtime Databases Persistence schema Monitoring schema Monitoring WF SQL Tracking Provider WCF SQL Tracking Behaviors Messaging Forwarding Service Hosting Durable Timer Service Visual Studio WF and WCF Project Templates Windows Application Server Role Model Deployment to Dublin Discovery Service Dublin adds Dublin enhances Windows/IIS/.NET 4.0 Scale-out & Reliability Discovery & Control Application Monitoring Versioning, Partitioning, Routing System Center App Server SCOM Pack “ It just works!” http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB18

14. http://www.codeplex.com/PSHyperv

15. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=171&uid=swg24017698

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19. Exchange 2007 –eq "Much Simpler" Exchange Server 2003 (VBScript) E2K7 (PowerShell one-liner) Mailbox Statistics Set listExchange_Mailboxs = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!COMPUTERNAMEOOTicrosoftExchangeV2").InstancesOf("Exchange_Mailbox") For Each objExchange_Mailbox in listExchange_Mailboxs WScript.echo "AssocContentCount =” + objExchange_Mailbox.AssocContentCount WScript.echo " DateDiscoveredAbsentInDS =” + objExchange_Mailbox.DateDiscoveredAbsentInDS WScript.echo " DeletedMessageSizeExtended =” + objExchange_Mailbox. DeletedMessageSizeExtended WScript.echo " LastLoggedOnUserAccount =” + objExchange_Mailbox. LastLoggedOnUserAccount WScript.echo " LastLogoffTime =” + objExchange_Mailbox. LastLogoffTime WScript.echo " LastLogonTime =” + objExchange_Mailbox. LastLogonTime WScript.echo " LegacyDN =” + objExchange_Mailbox. LegacyDN WScript.echo " MailboxDisplayName =” + objExchange_Mailbox. MailboxDisplayName WScript.echo " MailboxGUID =” + objExchange_Mailbox. MailboxGUID WScript.echo " ServerName =” + objExchange_Mailbox. ServerName WScript.echo " Size =” + objExchange_Mailbox. Size WScript.echo " StorageGroupName =” + objExchange_Mailbox. StorageGroupName WScript.echo " StorageLimitInfo =” + objExchange_Mailbox. StorageLimitInfo WScript.echo " StoreName =” + objExchange_Mailbox. StoreName WScript.echo " TotalItems =” + objExchange_Mailbox. TotalItems Next get-mailboxstatistics – server $servername Database Mgmt Dim StorGroup as New CDOEXM.StorageGroup StorGroup.DataSource.Open "LDAP://" + DCServer + "/ CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,CN=" + Server + ",CN=Servers,CN=First Administrative Group, CN=Administrative Groups,CN=First Organization, CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services, CN=Configuration," + DomainName StorGroup.MoveLogFiles("C:ewlogPath", 0) move-storagegrouppath -identity “First Storage Group“ – log "C:ewlogPath” Recipient Mgmt Dim objMailbox As CDOEXM.IMailboxStore Set objMailbox = GetObject("LDAP://" + DCServer + "CN=FOO,CN=users," + DomainName) objMailbox.CreateMailbox "LDAP://" + DCServer + "/CN=Private MDB,CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,CN=" + Server + ",CN=Servers,CN=First Administrative Group, CN=Administrative Groups,CN=First Organization, CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services, CN=Configuration," + DomainName enable-mailbox -identity domainOO – database “First Storage Grouprivate MDB”

20. Exchange 2007 Management Architecture CLI GUI Setup Process Boundary Exchange cmdlets Configuration Data Objects/Access PowerShell Data Provider PowerShell Engine Windows Forms Early-bound objs Windows Forms ADO.NET MAPI Store Registry Meta base AD

21. Get-Command Get-Help Get-Member Get-PSDrive Get the Free eBook and information about the 4 most important CmdLets http://tinyurl.com/powershell4

22. Anatomy

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27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9229859@N02/1951252254/

28. http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/377537734/

29. The PowerShell pipeline Get-Process | Where { $_.handles –gt 500 } | Sort handles | Format-Table Get-Process Cmdlet Common Windows PowerShell Parser Windows PowerShell Pipeline Processor Where-Object Cmdlet Sort -Object Cmdlet Format-Table Cmdlet Alias Alias

33. PowerShell Architecture

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35. PowerShell V2 Themes

39. Out-Thankyou PS C:gt; Thank you for your time and attention. Good luck in your PowerShell Adventures! Get-Allandcp PS C:gt; Allan da Costa Pinto Microsoft [email_address] http://blogs.msdn.com/allandcp