Introduction to PowerShell (SharePoint Fest Chicago 2016 Workshop)

© 2016 PSC Group, LLC
Introduction to PowerShell
MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL AND JACK FRUH

Who is Michael Blumenthal?
• Technical Solution Evangelist
at PSC Group
• Office 365 MVP
• Dev/ITPro Mix
• In IT Consulting since 1995
• PowerShelling since 2007

Who is Jack Fruh?
• Cloud Architect
• Fortune 500 Company
• Big on community
• SPS Chicago Suburbs Co-
Leader
• SharePointJack.com
• SharePoint-Community.org

This is about you
• Everyone have a laptop with you?
• Do you have PowerShell installed?
• Anyone used PowerShell before?
• Who’s done scripting before?
• Admin or Developer?

Introduce Yourself
• Your Name
• Company Size
• Your Role
• O365 or SharePoint On Prem Version?
• Where you are in your PowerShell journey
• One thing you want PowerShell to solve?

What is PowerShell?

Why is PowerShell AWESOME?
Write-Host “SO easy to use!”
No Compiling!

• It’s Easy to Get Started!1
• Learn the PowerShell Syntax2
• Real World Examples3
• Best Practices4
• More Resources & Raffle5
PowerShell puts .NET at your fingertips!

Chapter 1

Getting Started with PowerShell
2003
2008,R2
2012, R2
2016
7, 8, 8.1, 10

The Command Line Window

Windows Feature
Win
8.x
Win
8-10

The Integrated Script Editor

PowerShell V3-5 ISE

Intellisense!

Now Run PowerShell
• $PSVerTable

Chapter 2

Symbols, Keywords, and Syntax! Oh
My!
• Variables1
• Commands2
• Piping3
• Comparisons4
• Flow Control5
• Filtering6

Reading Symbols in Code
• (tal Guidance
• Moe, Larry, and }
• The universe started with
the Big !
• !Important
• A # of Bacon and # Browns

Variables
• Case Insensitive, Dynamic typing
$something
$true, $false, $null, $profile
$myMessage= “Hello, World”
1

Your Turn
• Create a Variable
• Assign something to it
• Get its value

Commands are called cmdlets.
Verb-Noun
Built-in, Extensible
Get-Help
Get-Member
Get-Command
2

Help!

Your Turn
• Get-Help About_<CTRL+Space>

Get-Command
• Find Cmdlets
• Get details of cmdlets and applications

Your Turn
• Get-command get-date
• Get-date | Get-member
• Name a method!
• Get-command *SPO*

Our Turn
• Get-help
• Get-command –noun
• Get-member

Aliases
Alias
• Dir
• Sort
• Select
• Foreach, also %
cmdlet
• Get-ChildItem
• Sort-object
• Select-object
• Foreach-object

Your Turn
• Get-Alias

The Power of Piping!
Output Of
Command 1
Input of
Command 2
3

Example

Pipe Demo!

Your Turn
• Get-ChildItem | select –first 10
• Get-ChildItem| select -first 10 |
Sort-Object -Property
LastAccessTime | Select-Object -
Property LastAccessTime, Name
•
•

Dial zero for an…4
Operator
-eq -le
-ne -like
-gt -notlike
-ge -match
-lt -notmatch

Taking Control of the Flow
• If (Test) {Commands} else {Commands}
• if ($web.Title –ne “”) {Write-Host $web.Title}If
• For (Init;Test;Repeat) {Commands}
• for($i=1; $i -le 10; $i++) {Write-Host $i}For
• Foreach (Item in Collection) {Commands}
• Foreach ($gumball in $CandyBag) {$gumball.color}
• Collection | Foreach {Commands}
ForEach
• While (Condition){Commands}
• while($val -ne 3){$val++; Write-Host $val}While
5

Your Turn
• Comparisons
• Arrays and Loops

Where-Object
•Where {<Test>}Syntax
• V1&2:
Dir | Where {$_.Name –like “B*”}
• V3+:
Dir | where Name –like B*
Example
6

Your Turn
• Where

Executing Scripts
.filename.ps1
Set-ExecutionPolicy
Unrestricted

Use Functions

Follow the Naming Convention!
•

Modules
•
•
• env:

Chapter 3

SharePoint On Prem
• SharePoint On Prem
• SharePoint Management Console
• 15 Hive POSH Script

Office 365
• SharePoint Online Management Console
• Office Dev PnP PowerShell
• Connect-SPOService

DEMO – SPO Sites

Parking Lot Question Check

Chapter 4

Jack’s Scripts
• Examples

Real World Examples
• Dell Service Tag
• Flashcards
• Audio Alerts
• File Conversion & Text Manipulation
• Managing Servers at Scale

Flash
Cards

Get-DellServiceTag
• Get-WmiObject win32_SystemEnclosure | select
serialnumber

Audio Alerts
• Stick this at the end of your long running script:
$Voice = new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice
$Voice.Speak(“Deployment is done!")

File and Text Wrangling
• Word
• Auto
DOCX
• RegEx
• PSObj
TXT
• Export-
• CSV
CSV

Server Management
Server/Service Examples of
What you can script
Azure Virtual Machines
Exchange Mailboxes
Office 365 Sites
SharePoint Everything
SQL Queries
Windows Server File system

Chapter 5

Comment your functions

Search for Commands
Refresh the command list
Actions you can take

Self Announcing Functions
…

Source Code Control

Always read scripts before running
them
More Good Ideas

Always read scripts before running them.
Make yours safe when others don’t
More Good Ideas

Always read scripts before running
them
Check for valid parameter values
get-help
about_Functions_Advanced_Parameters
More Good Ideas

Always read scripts before running them
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
More Good Ideas

Chapter 6

TechCommunity.microsoft.com

PowerShell.org

SharePoint Jack

Get Jack’s Cheat Sheet
http://bit.ly/poshref

Blumenthal’s Blog: MichaelBlumenthal.me

Interview with Don Jones
• http://www.runasradio.com/Sho
ws/Show/505

Contact Us
• mblumenthal@psclistens.com
• 847-275-7247
• @MichaelBL
• http://bit.ly/MBB-LI
• https://Michaelblumenthal.me
• http://bit.ly/JoinChiITEvents
• Jack@SharePointJack.com
• @sharepointjack

Script something today!
It’s Easy to Get
Started!
PowerShell
Syntax
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