SVCC 5 introduction to powershell

SVCC 5 introduction to powershell

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  Introduction To PowershellPaulH CassidyTest Automation LeadFront Porch – Sonora, CAhttp://www.twitter.com/qa_warrior
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  AgendaIntroduce PowerShellLearn toinvestigate and explore PowerShellDemo’s showing a bit of what is possible with PowerShell
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  Windows PowerShellA commandline and scripting languageAs interactive and engaging as BASH/KSHAs programmatic as Perl/Python/Ruby
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  State of theSoftware - CommunityActive and useful Newsgroups and Forums
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  Lots ofactive Codeplex projects
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  Strong groupof MVPs
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  Strong communitytools
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  Lots of bookscovering specific and general areasThe Difference is OBJECTS!Get-Process | Where { $_.handles –gt 500 } | Sort handles | Format-TableCommon Windows PowerShell ParserGet-ProcessCmdletSort CmdletFormatCmdletWhere CmdletWindows PowerShell Pipeline Processor
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  Productivity
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  Learn and LeverageInthe box documentsRelease NotesGetting Started, User’s Guide, Quick ReferenceHelpDiscovery utilitiesBooksCommunityPractice ad hoc development
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  Utilities - Discovery
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  Discovery UtilitiesWindows PowerShelldemo
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  Utilities – ObjectManipulation
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  Object Manipulations UtilitiesWindowsPowerShelldemo
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  Transformation and Output
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  Transformation and OutputUtilitiesWindows PowerShelldemo
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  PowerShell provides nativeaccess to any .NET classCreate any object[reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")$d = New-Object System.DateTime 2006,12,25Access Properties/Invoke Methods$d.DayOfWeek$d.AddDays(-30)Access Statics[DateTime]::Now[DateTime]::IsLeapYear(2008) Scripting with .NETAllows admins to easily access and leverage a huge API set because of scriptability, utilities and formatting
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  .Net ScriptingWindows PowerShelldemo
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  Access existing instrumentationBindto COM objects$fso = New-Object -ComObjectScripting.FileSystemObject$m = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]$word = $m::GetActiveObject("Word.Application") Invoke methods/access properties$fso.GetDrive(“C:”)$fso.VolumeName = “System Drive”Manipulate and format resultsDefine and import custom formatingUpdate-FormatData Office.Word.Format.ps1xml$word.RecentFiles | Sort name | Format-Table Scripting with COMAllows more simpler/more powerful COM scripts because of utilities and formatting
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  PowerShell provides nativeWMI supportGet-WmiObjectAllows for inspection of WMI namespaceGet-WmiObject –list [-Namespace xx]Get-WmiObject –Class xx –Namespace xx –Property xxx – Filter xxx –ComputerName xxx –Credential xxxNative language support[WMI] “\\JPSDESK10\root\cimv2:Win32_Process.Handle="0“[WMICLASS] "ROOT\cimv2:WIN32_PROCESS"[WMISEARCHER]"select * from Win32_process WHERE Name = 'calc.exe'"Scripting with WMI
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  WMI ScriptingWindows PowerShelldemo
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  PowerShell provides nativeXML support[XML]”<root>…. </root>”Projects a “data-view” of XML Scripting with XML
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  XML ScriptingWindows PowerShelldemo
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  Community ResourcesNewsgroup: Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShellTeam blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell/PowerShell Community: http://www.PowershellCommunity.OrgCommunity Script Repo http://www.poshcode.orgChannel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/PowerShellWikihttp://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.WindowsPowerShellWikiScript Center: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspxCodePlex:http://codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=powershellMany excellent booksManning Press book by PowerShell Dev Lead Bruce Payette: PowerShell in Action http://manning.com/powershell/O’Reilly book by PowerShell Dev Lee Holmes – Windows PowerShell Cookbookhttp://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528492/index.htmlSession Demos for Introduction To Powershell
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  Q&A