Powershell 7 for IT Pros

Take advantage of everything Microsoft's new PowerShell 7 has to offer
 
PowerShell 7 for IT Pros is your guide to using PowerShell 7, the open source, cross-platform version of Windows PowerShell. Windows IT professionals can begin setting up automation in PowerShell 7, which features many improvements over the early version of PowerShell Core and Windows PowerShell. PowerShell 7 users can enjoy the high level of compatibility with the Windows PowerShell modules they rely on today. This book shows IT professionals--especially Windows administrators and developers--how to use PowerShell7 to engage in their most important tasks, such as managing networking, using AD/DNS/DHCP, leveraging Azure, and more.
 
To make it easy to learn everything PowerShell 7 has to offer, this book includes robust examples, each containing sample code so readers can follow along. Scripts are based on PowerShell 7 running on Windows 10 19H1 or later and Windows Server 2019.
 
* Learn to navigate the PowerShell 7 administrative environment
 
* Use PowerShell 7 to automate networking, Active Directory, Windows storage, shared data, and more
 
* Run Windows Update, IIS, Hyper-V, and WMI and CIM cmdlets within PowerShell 7
 
* Understand how to handle reporting in the new PowerShell 7 environment
 
PowerShell 7 for IT Pros provides exclusive coverage of using PowerShell with both cloud-based systems and virtualized environments (Hyper V and Azure). Written by PowerShell veteran Thomas Lee, this is the only book you'll need to get started with PowerShell 7

List of contents

Foreword xiii
 
Introduction xxxiii
 
Chapter 1 Setting Up a PowerShell 7 Environment 1
 
What is New in PowerShell 7 2
 
Systems Used in This Book and Chapter 3
 
Installing PowerShell 7 5
 
Installing and Configuring VS Code 14
 
Using the PowerShell Gallery 21
 
Creating a Local PowerShellGet Repository 24
 
Creating a Code-Signing Environment 30
 
Summary 35
 
Chapter 2 PowerShell 7 Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 37
 
Examining PowerShell Modules 38
 
Introducing the Compatibility Solution 48
 
Things That Do Not Work with PowerShell 7 51
 
Summary 54
 
Chapter 3 Managing Active Directory 55
 
Systems Used in This Chapter 58
 
Establishing a Forest Root Domain 60
 
Installing a Replica DC 66
 
Installing a Child Domain 70
 
Configuring a Cross-Forest Trust 75
 
Managing AD Users, Computers, and OUs 86
 
Adding Users to AD via a CSV 96
 
Configuring Just Enough Administration (JEA) 100
 
Summary 109
 
Chapter 4 Managing Networking 111
 
Systems Used in This Chapter 112
 
Configuring IP Addressing 113
 
Testing Network Connectivity 117
 
Installing the DHCP Service 121
 
Configuring DHCP Scopes 124
 
Configuring DHCP Failover 128
 
Configuring the DNS Service 133
 
Configuring DNS Zones and Resource Records 138
 
Summary 144
 
Chapter 5 Managing Storage 145
 
Systems Used in This Chapter 146
 
Managing Disks and Volumes 147
 
Managing NTFS Permissions 154
 
Managing Storage Replica 163
 
Managing Filestore Quotas 175
 
Managing File Screening 183
 
Summary 190
 
Chapter 6 Managing Shared Data 191
 
Systems Used in This Chapter 193
 
Setting Up and Securing an SMB File Server 194
 
Creating and Securing SMB Shares 198
 
Creating and Using an iSCSI Target 207
 
Setting Up a Clustered Scale-Out File Server 218
 
Summary 229
 
Chapter 7 Managing Printing 231
 
Systems Used in This Chapter 232
 
Installing and Sharing Printers 233
 
Publishing a Printer in AD 238
 
Changing the Spool Folder 240
 
Printing a Test Page 245
 
Creating a Printer Pool 248
 
Summary 249
 
Chapter 8 Managing Hyper-V 251
 
Systems Used in This Chapter 253
 
Installing and Configuring Hyper-V 254
 
Creating a Hyper-V VM 257
 
Using PowerShell Direct 262
 
Configuring VM Networking 265
 
Configuring VM Hardware 271
 
Implementing Nested Virtualization 277
 
Using VM Checkpoints 282
 
Using VM Replication 291
 
Managing VM Movement 305
 
Measuring VM Resource Usage 311
 
Summary 314
 
Chapter 9 Using WMI with CIM Cmdlets 315
 
Exploring WMI Namespaces 320
 
Exploring WMI Classes 328
 
Getting Local and Remote Objects 330
 
Invoking WMI Methods 334
 
Managing WMI Events 339
 
Implementing Permanent WMI Event Handling 347
 
Summary 355
 
Chapter 10 Reporting 357
 
Systems Used in This Chapter 358
 
Reporting on AD Users and Computers 359
 
Managing Filesystem Reporting 365
 
Collecting Performance Information Using PLA 374
 
Reporting on PLA Performance Data 379
 
Creating a Performance Monitoring Graph 382
 
Creating a System Diagnostics Report 385
 
Reporting on Printer Usage 387
 
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About the author

THOMAS LEE is an IT consultant/trainer/writer who holds numerous Microsoft certifications. He has been awarded Microsoft's MVP award 17 times. He has written numerous books on TCP/IP and PowerShell. Thomas currently helps clients to deliver training and build training courses. He continues to give back to the community as Group Administrator for the PowerShell forum on Spiceworks, where he is also a Site Moderator.

Summary

Take advantage of everything Microsoft's new PowerShell 7 has to offer

PowerShell 7 for IT Pros is your guide to using PowerShell 7, the open source, cross-platform version of Windows PowerShell. Windows IT professionals can begin setting up automation in PowerShell 7, which features many improvements over the early version of PowerShell Core and Windows PowerShell. PowerShell 7 users can enjoy the high level of compatibility with the Windows PowerShell modules they rely on today. This book shows IT professionals--especially Windows administrators and developers--how to use PowerShell7 to engage in their most important tasks, such as managing networking, using AD/DNS/DHCP, leveraging Azure, and more.

To make it easy to learn everything PowerShell 7 has to offer, this book includes robust examples, each containing sample code so readers can follow along. Scripts are based on PowerShell 7 running on Windows 10 19H1 or later and Windows Server 2019.

* Learn to navigate the PowerShell 7 administrative environment

* Use PowerShell 7 to automate networking, Active Directory, Windows storage, shared data, and more

* Run Windows Update, IIS, Hyper-V, and WMI and CIM cmdlets within PowerShell 7

* Understand how to handle reporting in the new PowerShell 7 environment

PowerShell 7 for IT Pros provides exclusive coverage of using PowerShell with both cloud-based systems and virtualized environments (Hyper V and Azure). Written by PowerShell veteran Thomas Lee, this is the only book you'll need to get started with PowerShell 7

Product details

• Authors: T Lee, Thomas Lee
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781119644729
• ISBN: 978-1-119-64472-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Operating systems, user interfaces; Computers - Languages / Programming, COMPUTERS / Programming / Microsoft