Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

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1 Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Over 110 recipes to automate Windows Server administrative tasks by using PowerShell Ed Goad BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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3 Credits Author Ed Goad Project Coordinator Anugya Khurana Reviewers Anderson Patricio Donabel Santos Proofreaders Mario Cecere Dirk Manuel Acquisition Editor Kevin Colaco Indexer Hemangini Bari Commissioning Editor Shreerang Deshpande Graphics Valentina D'silva Lead Technical Editor Azharuddin Sheikh Production Coordinator Conidon Miranda Technical Editors Ankita Meshram Kirti Pujari Varun Pius Rodrigues Cover Work Conidon Miranda

4 About the Author Ed Goad is a Systems Architect who has been working in various roles in the IT Þ eld for 16 years. He Þ rst became interested in scripting and automation when presented with the task to uninstall software from over 1,000 systems with limited time and resources. He has worked with scripting and automation on multiple platforms and languages including PowerShell, VBscript, C#, and BASH scripting. Ed currently holds multiple Microsoft certiþ cations, most recently including the Microsoft CertiÞ ed IT Professional Enterprise Administrator. Additional non-microsoft certiþ cations include VMware CertiÞ ed Professional (VCP), Red Hat CertiÞ ed System Administrator (RHCSA), EMC Proven Professional, Brocade CertiÞ ed Network Engineer (BCNE), and Cisco CertiÞ ed Network Associate (CCNA). Ed is currently on sabbatical, and is volunteering full time at the Amor Fe y Esperanza school in Honduras ( There he is teaching computer and math classes to children who live and work in the garbage dump outside of the capital city of Tegucigalpa. I would like to thank my parents for always encouraging me when I was younger by telling me that I could be anything that I wanted, as long as I had good math skills. They bought our Þ rst computer before I even started school, and then let me break it and repair it over and over, driving my interest in computers. I want to thank my wife for loving me and encouraging me to grow and be more than I was. Without her love and encouragement my life wouldn't be nearly as full as it is now. And lastly, I would like to thank God for his blessings and the opportunities he has given me. As much as I have learned and accomplished, it is nothing compared to knowing his love.

5 About the Reviewers Anderson Patricio is an Exchange Server MVP and a Messaging consultant based in Toronto, Canada, designing and deploying solutions in clients located in North and South America. He has been working with Exchange since Version 5 and has had the opportunity to use PowerShell since its beta release (code name Monad at that time). Anderson contributes to the Microsoft communities in several ways. In English, his blog is updated regularly with content for Exchange, PowerShell, and Microsoft in general. In Portuguese, he has an Exchange resource site (www. andersonpatricio.org). He is also a TechEd presenter in South America and also the creator of a couple of Exchange trainings in the Brazilian Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA). You can follow him on Twitter at He is the reviewer of several books such as Windows Powershell in Action by Bruce Payette, PowerShell in Practice by Richard Siddaway, and Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook by Mike Pfeiffer. Donabel Santos is a SQL Server MVP and is the senior SQL Server Developer/DBA/ Trainer at QueryWorks Solutions, a consulting and training company in Vancouver, BC. She has worked with SQL Server since Version 2000 on numerous development, tuning, reporting, and integration projects with ERPs, CRMs, SharePoint, and other custom applications. She holds MCITP certiþ cations for SQL Server 2005/2008, and an MCTS for SharePoint. She is a Microsoft CertiÞ ed Trainer (MCT), and is also the lead instructor for SQL Server Administration, Development, Tableau, and SSIS courses at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). Donabel is a proud member of PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server), and a proud BCIT alumna (CST diploma and degree).

6 Donabel blogs ( tweets speaks and presents (SQLSaturday, VANPASS, Vancouver TechFest, and many more), trains (BCIT, QueryWorks Solutions), and writes (Packt, Idera, SSWUG, and so on). She is the author of Packt's SQL Server 2012 with PowerShell V3 Cookbook, and a contributing author of Manning's PowerShell Deep Dives. Thank you Eric, for all the support and love. Thank you for cooking the delicious dinners that invigorate me after a long day's work. You are my home. Thank you to my family Papa, Mama, JR, RR, Lisa you all give me strength and I am very blessed to have you in my life. Special shout out to my Tito Boy, who proudly told people in his network about my Þ rst book thank you Tito Boy. Thank you to my BCIT family Kevin Cudihee, Elsie Au, Joanne Atha, Charlie Blattler, Paul Mills, Bob Langelaan, Benjamin Yu, Brian Pidcock, Albert Wei and so many others to all of my mentors, colleagues, and students, who never fail to inspire me to do better, be better. It's been a great ten years teaching at BCIT and I look forward to a lot more wonderful years of learning, inspiring, and sharing. Special thanks to the Microsoft team and Microsoft communities, especially #sqlfamily. You guys are awesome and so many of you continuously and selß essly share your knowledge and expertise to a lot of people. I've been on the receiving end so many times, and I hope I can continue to pay it forward. I am so proud to be part of this community. Thank you to the PowerShell community, for the awesome blogs, books, and tweets, which immensely helped folks to learn, understand, and get excited about PowerShell. Most importantly, thank you Lord, for all the miracles and blessings in my life.

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9 Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: Understanding PowerShell Scripting 7 Introduction 8 Managing security on PowerShell scripts 8 Creating and using functions 11 Creating and using modules 15 Creating and using PowerShell proþ les 20 Passing variables to functions 22 Validating parameters in functions 24 Piping data to functions 30 Recording sessions with transcripts 32 Signing PowerShell scripts 33 Sending 36 Sorting and Þ ltering 38 Using formatting to export numbers 40 Using formatting to export data views 42 Using jobs 44 Dealing with errors in PowerShell 46 Tuning PowerShell scripts for performance 49 Creating and using Cmdlets 51 Chapter 2: Managing Windows Network Services with PowerShell 59 Introduction 60 ConÞ guring static networking 60 Installing domain controllers 67 ConÞ guring zones in DNS 70 ConÞ guring DHCP scopes 75 ConÞ guring DHCP server failover 77 Converting DHCP addresses to static 78

10 Table of Contents Building out a PKI environment 80 Creating AD users 84 Searching for and reporting on AD users 89 Finding expired computers in AD 90 Creating and ing a superuser report 92 Chapter 3: Managing IIS with PowerShell 97 Introduction 97 Installing and conþ guring IIS 98 ConÞ guring IIS for SSL 100 ConÞ guring a Central CertiÞ cate Store 103 ConÞ guring IIS bindings 106 ConÞ guring IIS logging 109 Managing log Þ les 111 ConÞ guring NLB across multiple servers 112 Monitoring load balancing across NLB nodes 116 Placing NLB nodes into maintenance 118 ConÞ guring a development/staging/production site scheme 120 Promoting content in websites 121 Reporting on website access and errors 123 Chapter 4: Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell 127 Introduction 128 Installing and conþ guring Hyper-V 128 ConÞ guring NUMA 131 Securing Hyper-V 133 Hyper-V networking 136 Creating virtual machines 139 Managing VM state 141 ConÞ guring VM networking 144 ConÞ guring VM hardware 146 Quickly deploying VMs using a template 148 Managing and reporting on VM snapshots 150 Monitoring Hyper-V utilization and performance 153 Synchronizing networks between Hyper-V hosts 157 Hyper-V replication 159 Migrating VMs between hosts 163 Migrating VM storage between hosts 166 Using failover clustering to make VMs highly available 168 ii