Introduction to Powershell

Agenda

• The old way vs the new• An administrative engine• Powershelled Products• Installing Windows Powershell• Customizing the Shell

The old way vs the new

• GUI is good easy & makes life simple.• Tedious to do same task 10 users or 500 users.• LDIFDE, CSVDE, CMD (Medharam)

What’s old

What’s new

Phase 1(Interim model) Ex SQL 2008

Phase 2 Model(Univesal mode\Adminsitrative engine)

List of Powershell Phase 2 Products

• Server 2008 is not a powershell product. When 2k8 was released it was almost ready but it was very late to go back & change to engine.

• Also don’t forget CEC team wants same in GUI too.• Exchange 2007, SCVMM, SCDOM, SCOM 2 degree• VMWARE ESX, Citrix, F5 are third party in phase 2• SCCM, SQl, 2008, are phase 1• Future phase 2 DNS, DHCP, TS, Certificate Services.

Version of Powershell

• V1, V2, wallah……. We have Powershell in V3 in Windows 8 & Server 2012

U r Exchabge admin & think U dnt require than sorry U will r wrong

• WMI, ADSI, .Net Framework, COM

Installing Windows powershell

• For XP, Vista, www.microsoft.com/powershell• .netframe 2.0 is prerequisite• For 2k8 could install from fetaures• For 2k8R2, Win7 its already installed that too

v2

Customizing Shell

• Get-eventlog security• Go to properties of Powershell & set layout.• For more info check the next screen.• Show all the properties of Powershell.

Review

• The old way vs the new• An administrative engine• Powershelled Products• Installing Windows Powershell• Customizing the Shell