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2. Advanced Automation UsingWindows PowerShell 2.0 WSV406 Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Microsoft Dan Harman Senior Program Manager Microsoft

3. Session Overview Technical Level: 400 Intended Audience: IT administrators and scripters Learning Objectives: Learn about improvements to Windows PowerShell 2.0 Understand how to use advanced scripting techniques See how PowerShell features work in common scenarios Presentation Outline: Overview of new PowerShell 2.0 features Advanced scripting techniques in depth GUI over PowerShell demo Production scripting demo Universal automation environment demo

4. Improvements in PowerShell 2.0Dozens of big features 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…

5. PowerShell Architecture

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

7. 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

8. GUI Over PowerShell Features PowerShell ISE Out-GridView Hosting APIs Session Pooling Thread Control

9. demo GUI Over PowerShell Dan Harman Senior Program Manager Windows PowerShell

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

11. Production Scripting Features Advanced Functions Advanced Functions Native Code Debugger Enhancements Restricted Language Modules Transactions

12. Advanced Functions Gives the power of authoring custom cmdlets to IT pros Write PowerShell cmdlets using script instead of compiled code Enables consistent syntax and semantics between functions & cmdlets Evolution of function syntax from PowerShell 1.0 Near parity with .NET cmdlet capabilities Parameter attributes Range Length Not Null Not Null or Empty Pattern Set Count Script Cmdlet attributes -SupportsShouldProcess -ConfirmImpact { Low | Medium | High } $PSCmdlet similar to 'this' in C# $PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess("Target", "Action") $PSCmdlet.ShouldContinue("Query", "Caption") Support inline help or external PSMAML help

13. demo Production ScriptingAdvanced Functions Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Windows PowerShell

14. demo Production ScriptingModules Dan Harman Senior Program Manager Windows PowerShell

15. 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 Environment

16. Automation Environment Features Remoting Background Jobs Eventing Restricted Sessions Mobile Object Model

17. 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 Cmdlet 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)

18. demo Universal Automation EnvironmentRemoting Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Windows PowerShell

19. demo Universal Automation EnvironmentBackground Jobs Dan Harman Senior Program Manager Windows PowerShell

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

21. Language and Cmdlets New Cmdlets WMI++ Language Enhancements Improved Object Adapters

22. Over 100 New Built-In CmdletsHundreds more from partners 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 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 Remoting Disable-PSSessionConfiguration Enable-PSSessionConfiguration Enable-PSRemoting 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

23. 16 New Partners in Windows 7 & WS08 R2Many 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

24. Windows PowerShell Community Resources Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell PowerShell Community: http://www.powershellcommunity.org PowerShell Forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverpowershell/threads Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/PowerShell Wiki: http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.WindowsPowerShellWiki Script Center: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx CodePlex: http://codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=powershell Some good books PowerShell in Action, 2nd Edition by Bruce Payette http://www.manning.com/payette2 Windows PowerShell Cookbook, 2nd Edition by Lee Holmes http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801519/ Professional Windows PowerShell Programming http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0470173939.html PowerShell Comics! http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/comics/b/weblog/archive/2011/04/20/climbing-mt-powershell-comic-book-first-pages.aspx

25. Related Content Breakout Sessions WSV406 | Advanced Automation Using Windows PowerShell 2.0 WSV315 Windows PowerShell for Beginners WCL321 | Windows PowerShell Remoting: Definitely NOT Just for Servers WSV322 | Managing the Registry with Windows PowerShell 2.0 WSV471-INT | Build Reusable Tools in Windows PowerShell WSV473-INT | Windows PowerShell 3.0: Why Wait? Get Next-Generation PowerShell… EXL321 | Microsoft Lync Server 2010: Administering Lync Server Deployment Hands-on Labs WSV276-HOL Introduction to Windows PowerShell Fundamentals WSV371-HOL Advanced Windows PowerShell Scripting WSV378-HOL Server Management and Windows PowerShell V2 Product Demo Stations WSV 1 – Windows PowerShell and Server Management

26. Track Resources Don’t forget to visit the Cloud Power area within the TLC (Blue Section) to see product demos and speak with experts about the Server & Cloud Platform solutions that help drive your business forward. You can also find the latest information about our products at the following links: Cloud Power - http://www.microsoft.com/cloud/ Private Cloud - http://www.microsoft.com/privatecloud/ Windows Server - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/ Windows Azure - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/ Microsoft System Center - http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/ Microsoft Forefront - http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/

27. Resources Connect. Share. Discuss. http://northamerica.msteched.com Learning Sessions On-Demand & Community Microsoft Certification & Training Resources www.microsoft.com/teched www.microsoft.com/learning Resources for IT Professionals Resources for Developers http://microsoft.com/technet http://microsoft.com/msdn

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