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2 Independent Consultant Napeague Inc. Software Development since 1983 Few Facts First Personal Computer 1980 TRS-80 III First Z80 based product (EPROM based Protocol Adpator 1984) First Commercial PC-DOS product (Telex on PCs 1985) Started 16-bit Windows Development using Win 3.1 Developed on: 8080/Z80, 68xxx, PDP/RSX,VAX-VMS and x86/x64 (C/C++/C#) Worked with PowerShell since Monad (2006) Worked with SharePoint since STS (2003) More facts Favorite sport Windsurfing Favorite hobby Playing my sunburst Fender Stratocaster+ guitar. Favorite guitar players Wes Montgomery, Larry Carlton and Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow)

3 Overview of PowerShell Introduction to PowerShell Scripting Language Tools Script Authoring SharePoint Management Console SharePoint CmdLets

4 NYC Code Camp I will be presenting on LightSwitch and Silverlight at the NYC Code Camp 6 (Autumn 2011) Saturday October 1 st Pace University Registration Still Open

5 Interactive Command Shell Programmatic (Script) Execution Environment Dynamic Scripting Language Extensible (CmdLets,.Net etc ) Hosted (i.e. NuGet) Management tool for Servers

6 A shell is the piece of software that lets you access the functionality provided by the operating system. Bruce Payette - Co-Designer and Implementer of the PowerShell language. Example Windows Explorer Command.com Cmd.exe Bash (Unix) PowerShell

7 Interactive Environment with.net Automation Tool Easy to use Available on all Windows SKUs starting with XP SP2 and Windows 2003 Management tool for Servers Productivity Gains One Liner

8 Source:Wikipedia

9 Common Parameters -Verbose -Debug -WarningAction -WarningVariable -ErrorAction -ErrorVariable -OutVariable -OutBuffer Risk Mitigation Parameters (certainly critical in a production environment) What-If -Confirm Wildcard support. All names and parameter value can support wildcard. Pipeline Much more about this later.

10 Command vs. Expression mode parsing Echo Everything returns a value String Variable $ Prefix i.e. $var = Hello Sharepoint Type System All.Net types as well as Custom Types

11 Help Get-Help (or -? Following any command) Get-Help about_<<anyname>> Get-Help Examples Get-Help Full

12 High level task oriented abstraction Verb-XXNoun Verbs: Get, Set, New, Write, Read Nouns: Drive, Variable, Provider, Site, Collection Get-Verb Predefined Commands When Starting Remember these: Get-Help Get-Member Get-Command

13 Get-Help As it says, it helps!!! Get-Command Get information about what can be invoked Get-Member Show what can be done with an object Get-Module Show packages of commands GetType Discover details about an object s type information.

14 Compare Foreach Group Measure Select Sort Tee Where

15 PowerShell ISE Simple Editor and Debugger PowerGUI Administrative Console PowerGUI Editor Powerpacks a number to choose from. Visual Studio Notepad

16 Out-Host Out-Null Out-Printer Out-String Out-GridView

17 The best part about PowerShell Output of one CmdLet is Input into next CmdLet in pipeline. Uses the Pipe operator Output and Input are objects, not text like traditional shells. Example Get-Command Get-Member Get-Process Out-GridView

18 Case-Insensitive Variables: begin with $ (i.e. $a = test ) Script Blocks using {} Array $a = 1,2,3 $a[1] Hashtable $h b=2} Scope Functions and Script Blocks Security Context aware Remoting - WSMan

19 If then else If ($a eq test ) { It s a test } else { Not } While loop and Do While loop $i = 1; While ($i lt 10) {$i++} $i =5; do {$i} while (--$i) For loop for ($i=0; $i lt 10; $i++) { 5 * $i is $(5 * $i) } Foreach loop Foreach ($i in 1..10) { `$i is $i }

20 Foreach CmdLet ForEach-Object { begin } {$_ * 2} { end } Where Cmdlet Where-Object {$_ -gt 4 -and $_ -lt 10}

21 Arithmetic Operators + * - / % Assignment Operators =, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=

22 Get-Location and SetLocation Copy-Item Remove-Item Move-Item Rename-Item Set-Item New-Item Get-Content

23 Pretty much the same as CMD > replace file >> Append to file 2> File is replaced with error messages 2>> Error text is appended to file 2>&1 Error messages are written to output pipe

24 A module is a package that contains Windows PowerShell commands, such as cmdlets, providers, functions, variables, and aliases Need to create module folder new-item -type directory -path $home\documents\windowspowershell\ Modules Copy the module to the Modules folder. Start using a module (import-module etc )

25 Standard Providers Windows PowerShell providers are Microsoft.NET Framework-based programs that make the data in a specialized data store available in Windows PowerShell so that you can view and manage it Get-PSProvider Select -Property Name WSMan - Alias Environment FileSystem Function Registry Variable Certificate

$c:\temp Remove-PSDrive Remove-PSDrive Try a non-disk PSDrive like cert: Dir$

26 Get-PSDrive New-PSDrive New-PSDrive -Name Y -PSProvider FileSystem -Root c:\temp Remove-PSDrive Remove-PSDrive Try a non-disk PSDrive like cert: Dir Cert:

A Script file is a text file with.ps1 extension containing one or more PowerShell command A Script is a simple mechanism to re-use functionality.

27 A Script file is a text file with.ps1 extension containing one or more PowerShell command A Script is a simple mechanism to re-use functionality. To run a script on a remote computer, use the Invoke-Command and provide remote computer name as a parameter. Scripts can accept parameters. To run a script in the current session, we Dot- Source the..\script1.ps1 We can Scope Local or Global.

28 Single Line: # Multi Line: <# #> Comments can be used to automatically generate help

29 A function is a script block containing list of statements function small_files ($size = 1kB) { Get-ChildItem c:\temp where { $_.length -lt $size -and!$_.psiscontainer} } small_files To control how a function uses the pipeline, you use Begin, Process and End. function pipelinefunc { process {"The value is: $_"} } 1,2,3 pipelinefunc Advanced functions allow you to write CmdLets using scripts instead of compiled code.

30 try { $wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient $wc.downloadfile(" } catch [System.Net.WebException],[System.IO.IOException] { "unable to download MyDoc.doc from } catch { "An error occurred that could not be resolved." }

31 Sharepoint Management Shell Need to execute Add-SPShellAdmin in order to acquire permissions to run PowerShell on Sharepoint Farm component Member of Administrators group on the local computer Member of Farm Administrators SharePoint group Farm Yes No Yes Service application Yes No Yes Content database Yes No Yes Site collection No Yes Yes Site, list, document library Yes No Yes Source: MSDN Full Control on backup folder

32 Get-Command -Noun SP* (Get-Command Name *-SP* - CommandType cmdlet).count

33 $Host.Runspace.ThreadOptions = "ReuseThread" Get-SPAssignment Global $spweb = Get-SPWeb -Identity $url $spweb.treeviewenabled = $True $spweb.update() Stop-SPAssignment Global

34 Windows Powershell Blog Doug Finke MVP (Also ShowUI) PowerShell Magazine Jim Christopher MVP (Check out StudioShell) Tome Tanasovski MVP/Author NYC PowerShell User Group

35 Productivity PowerGUI PowerTab Community Extensions Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell UI ShowUI (WPF)

36 Tool PowerGUI PowerTab Community Extensions Quest ActiveRoles ShowUI Windows Automation Snaping for Powershell Url

37 NuGet StudioShell

38 PowerShell in Action Bruce Payette The book from the authority on PowerShell Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible By Thomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, and Tome Tanasovski

39 Automating Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 Gary Lapointe & Shannon Bray PowerShell for Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Administrators. Niklas Goude & Mattias Karlsson

40 Next session will be about PowerShell Scripts in the SharePoint Management Shell Contact:

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