James Boother

Email: james@boother.co.uk

Twitter: @jimmyboo

Blog: http://www.boother.co.uk

AUTOMATING ADMIN TASKS WITH POWERSHELL

AGENDA• A brief history lesson

• What’s new in 2.0?

• Quick look at Cmdlets

• What it won’t do

• Example admin tasks automated with PowerShell

• SQL Server specific admin tasks automated with PowerShell

• Scheduling Scripts

• Resources

IN THE BEGINNING…

AFTER YEARS OF RESEARCH POSH WAS BORN

CMDLETS• Main building block of PowerShell Scripts

• Mini Commands that perform one action

• Common naming convention: Verb then Noun

• e.g.: Get-Help, Get-Object, Remove-Item –Destructive CmdLets have –WhatIf parameter

• Actually .NET Classes that can easily be created if new functionality is required

• The output of one Cmdlet can be piped into further cmdlets using the | operator

• Equality test with expressions such as –eq –lt –le

WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 2?• PowerShell ISE – pre-installed on every Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 machine

• Remoting

• Background Jobs

• Transactions

• Modules

• Eventing

WHAT IT WON’T DO• It won’t make the tea…

DEMO - VISUAL SCRIPTING ENVIRONMENT

DEMO – WMI SCRIPT• Full access to WMI from within Powershell:

DELETING OLD BACKUP FILES

DEMO - FINDING FAILED SQL JOBS

SCHEDULING SCRIPTS• SQL Server Agent or windows Task Scheduler

SQL SERVER PROVIDER• Open PowerShell from within SQL Server Management Studio

• Open SQLPS

• Cmdlets and a Provider are provided:

• Also instantiate the SQL Server SMO Objects:

DEMO – HELP SERVER DOWN!

SUMMARY• Powerful object based scripting engine

• Backwards compatible so you can start from what you already know

• Full access to File System; Registry; WMI; COM; .NET Objects and SQL Server

• Simple to schedule using Windows Scheduled Tasks or SQL Jobs

• Extensible through .NET

BOOKS

QUESTIONS• If you have any questions now’s your chance…

THANK YOU• Thank you for attending Automating admin tasks with PowerShell

• if you have any further questions please see my contact details here:

• Email: james@boother.co.uk

• Twitter: @jimmyboo

• Blog: http://www.boother.co.uk

• Enjoy the rest of the day, happy scripting!

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