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Introduction to PowerShell at Chicago Code Camp 2014
This document provides an introduction to PowerShell for working with SharePoint. It discusses getting started with PowerShell and the SharePoint API. It covers PowerShell syntax like variables, commands, piping, and flow control. It provides examples of real-world PowerShell scripts for tasks like flash cards, audio alerts, and file management. It emphasizes best practices like commenting functions and handling errors. Resources for learning more about PowerShell and SharePoint are also listed.
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- 1. 2014 Introduction to PowerShell MICHAELBLUMENTHAL PSC GROUP, LLC
- 2. 2014 Who is MichaelBlumenthal? • Sr. Solution Architect at PSC Group • CSPUG Co-Leader • INETA Champ 2010-2013 • 19 years in IT Consulting • 7 years working with PowerShell • Twitter: @MichaelBL
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- 4. 2014 PowerShell puts theSharePoint Engine at your fingertips! • It’s Easy to Get Started!1 • Learn the PowerShell Syntax2 • Real World Examples3 • Best Practices4 • More Resources5
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- 6. 2014 Getting Started withPowerShell 2003 2008 2008 R2 2012 7, 8, 8.1
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- 11. 2014 Learn to usePowerShell with SharePoint! Symbols & Keywords Using the SharePoint API Creating and Running Scripts
- 12. 2014 Symbols, Keywords, andSyntax! Oh My! • Variables1 • Commands2 • Piping3 • Comparisons4 • Flow Control5 • Filtering6
- 13. 2014 Punctuation Pronunciation $ _: % # [ ] ( ) ; | . + = { } < > ! /, “ -
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- 15. 2014 Variables • Case Insensitive,Dynamic typing $foo $true, $false, $profile, $null $foo = “Hello, World” 1
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- 17. 2014 Commands are calledcmdlets. Verb-Noun Built-in, Extensible Get-Help & Help Get-Member 2
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- 19. 2014 The Power ofPiping! Output Of Command 1 Input of Command 2 3
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- 21. 2014 Dial zero foran…4 Operator -eq -le -ne -like -gt -notlike -ge -match -lt -notmatch
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- 23. 2014 Taking Control ofthe Flow • For (Init;Test;Repeat) {Commands} • for($i=1; $i -le 10; $i++) {Write-Host $i}For • Foreach (Item in Collection) {Commands} • Foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) {$web.Title}ForEach • If (Test) {Commands} • if ($web.Title –ne “”) {Write-Host $web.Title}If • While (Condition){Commands} • while($val -ne 3){$val++; Write-Host $val}While 5
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- 25. 2014 Where-Object •Where {<Test>}Syntax • V1&2:Dir| Where {$_.Name –like “B*”} • V3:Dir | where Name –like B* Example 6
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- 28. 2014 Real World Examples •Flash cards • Dell Service Tag • Audio Alerts • MP3 Metadata Management • Managing Microsoft Server Products • File Conversion & Text Manipulation
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- 30. 2014 Get-DellServiceTag • Get-WmiObject win32_SystemEnclosure| select serialnumber
- 31. 2014 Audio Alerts • Stickthis at the end of your long running script: $Voice = new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice $Voice.Speak(“Deployment is done!")
- 32. 2014 File and TextWrangling • Word • Auto DOCX • RegEx • PSObj TXT • Export- • CSV CSV
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- 34. 2014 Comment your functions •<# • .SYNOPSIS –a brief explanation of what the script or function does. • .DESCRIPTION – a more detailed explanation of what the script or function does. • .PARAMETER name – an explanation of a specific parameter. Replace name with the parameter name. You can have one of these sections for each parameter the script or function uses. • .EXAMPLE – an example of how to use the script or function. You can have multiple .EXAMPLE sections if you want to provide more than one example. • .NOTES – any miscellaneous notes on using the script or function. • .LINK – a cross-reference to another help topic; you can have more than one of these. If you include a URL beginning with http:// or https://, the shell will open that URL when the Help command’s –online parameter is used. • #>
- 35. 2014 Find custom commandsthis way Refresh the command list Actions you can take once you fill in parameters
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- 38. 2014 More Good Ideas •Always read scripts before running them • Make yours safe when others don’t • Check for valid parameter values • get-help about_Functions_Advanced_Parameters • Do error handling • get-help about_Try_Catch_Finally • get-help about_CommonParameters • -ErrorAction and -ErrorVariable
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- 44. 2014 Resources Summary PowerShellProduct Team Blog TechNet Script Center PowerShell in Action by Bruce Payette CodePlex: PSBBs (mine) CodePlex:SPInstaller Blog.BlumenthalIT.Net SharePointJack.com • Jeff Hicks • Gary LaPointe • Raymond Mitchell • Todd Klindt • POSHCODE.ORG • get-spscripts.com • SPYam
- 45. 2014 Script something today! It’sEasy to Get Started! Learn & Use the PowerShell Syntax More Resources In Review…
- 46. 2014 Questions • Michael Blumenthal SharePointArchitect PSC Group, LLC • MBlumenthal@psclistens.com • psclistens.com • www.cspug.org • Twitter: @MichaelBL • LinkedIn • Microsoft Midwest Customers Yammer Network Thank you for your time today.
- 47. 2014 In Memory ofDave Bost 6/30/1970-4/7/2014 Developer Evangelist at Microsoft for 8 years September 2005 – October 2013 He was a great supporter of the Chicago technical community. Please donate to his family’s chosen cause, Pitt Hopkins Research Foundation http://pitthopkins.org/donate/ More about Dave Bost’s passing: Obit: http://bit.ly/1msYRLR David Giard’s blog: http://bit.ly/1fhIvR2
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- #4 Every Developer needs this!Fast and FlexibleGreat for LastMile Problems. New MSFT std for Scripting
- #5 Who would like another tool in their toolbox, one that will help them with SharePoint, but also with many other things? How about the swiss army knife of tools?It will make you a better developer!
- #7 Who here already has installed and PowerShell? Who’s using Server 2003? 2008?Win 2003: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspxWin 2008 – It’s an OS Feature – “servermanagercmd –install PowerShell”V4 is here2003 -download20082008 R2, 2012+ISEV4
- #15 Does anyone have any other names for these?Victor Borge has his own take on these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gwSymbolCalledSymbolCalled$Dollar sign, money_Underscore#Hash, Pound[ ]Square Brackets|Pipe, vertical bar.Dot, point, period{ }Curly braces< >Angle Brackets“Double Quote, tick-Dash, hyphen, minus:Colon%Percent sign( )Parentheses;Semi-colon+Plus=Equals, is!Bang, not/, \Slash, backslash
- #17 begin with a $Name that Language…Similar to @variables in SQL, apparently also Ruby, PHP.Arrays start at 0
- #19 Mention Aliases
- #22 Ask if anyone has unix scripting experience, and what they think of this.Can you imagine trying to do this in unix or vbscript?
- #25 Get-Help about_flow_controlMention that collections start at 0
- #26 Ask if anyone has unix scripting experience, and what they think of this.Can you imagine trying to do this in unix or vbscript?
- #42 Windows PowerShell in Action by Bruce Payette, V2Since then Hicks and Jones have written some good ones
- #45 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/default
- #46 PoshCode.OrgTechNet Script Center http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx MSDN SharePoint Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905503.aspx Zach Rosenfield’s Blog - http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/zach/default.aspxhttp://blog.falchionconsulting.com/http://www.powergui.org/downloads.jspahttp://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/pages/powertab.aspx
- #47 You owe it to yourself to try out PowerShell.It will make you a better developer!