Practical PowerShell for the Windows Administrator

Practical PowerShell for the Windows Administrator Jan Egil Ring Senior Consultant, Infrastructure jan.egil.ring@crayon.com

Agenda • Specific scenarios • System Center Virtual Machine Manager • Hyper-V • DNS • DHCP • Profile- and module-managementJanuary 22, 2012 NIC 2012

Hyper-V Administration using SystemCenter Virtual Machine Manager• Manage Hyper-V, VMware and XenServer• Built on top of PowerShell• Makes it easy to do bulk management, generate reports and so on.• Automate baselines, best practices and tuning• Demo: Generate reports of your virtual infrastructure and VM bulk-provisioning Recommended TechEd-video, Failover Clustering & Hyper-V : http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2010/WSV403

Hyper-V administration usingPowerShell• Hyper-V PowerShell-module in Windows 8 (both client and server) with ~150 cmdlets• No PowerShell-module for managing Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 from Microsoft• Community module from James O`Neill (pshyperv.codeplex.com)

DNS• Real world example: The domain is being upgraded to the latest version, and there has been made a decision not to re-use any IP addresses for the DNS servers• Mission: Change DNS server settings on all servers in the domain• Possible solution: Get/Set-DNSServerSearchOrder PowerShell Network Adapter Configuration Module by Jan Egil Ring: http://psnetadapterconfig.codeplex.com

DHCP administration using PowerShell• Builtin PowerShell module in Windows Server 8• Wrapper-module around netsh available for downlevel server OS• Demo: Bulk-create over 200 DHCP-scopes PowerShell Module for DHCP by Jeremy Engel: http://bit.ly/gxMLJJ

• Back to the SC VMM demo

Profile- and module-management• Design how you will manage PowerShell profiles and modules in your environment• Company-specific module and script repository• Redirected Documents-folder and default PowerShell profile for adminsCorporate Powershell Module Repository by PowerShell MVP Tome Tanasovski:http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/corporate-powershell-module-repository-part-1-design-and-infrastructure

Call to actionIf not already using PowerShell, start using it (quickest way to start: stop using cmd.exe)Use the PowerShell community to Get-Help

Resources TechNet WikiWindows PowerShell Survival Guidehttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/windows-powershell-survival-guide.aspx ArticlesJames O`Neill - best practices:http://jamesone111.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/maximize-the-reuse-of-your-powershell/Jeff Hicks - turn CLI tools into PowerShell:http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2011/10/turning-cli-tools-into-powershell-tools-deep-dive-demosWindows PowerShell: Scripting Crash Course:http://technet.microsoft.com/nb-no/magazine/hh551144(en-us).aspx

Microsoft Technology User Group Script Club Part of the Microsoft Technology User Group in Oslo Regular workshops exploring various topics around automation and scripting with a focus on PowerShell. Meetings is announced at www.mtug.no If you want to find or create a PowerShell usergroup or script club, check out http://powershellgroup.org

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Practical PowerShell for the Windows Administrator

by Jan Egil Ring on Jan 22, 2012

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