PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook

370 Pages·2013·30.14 MB·English

by  Sherif Talaat

PowerShell 3.0 Advanced
Administration Handbook
A fast-paced PowerShell guide with real-world
scenarios and detailed solutions
Sherif Talaat
Haijun Fu
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook
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Credits
Authors Project Coordinator
Sherif Talaat Arshad Sopariwala
Haijun Fu
Proofreaders
Amy Guest
Reviewers
Mark Andrews Chris Smith
Karim CAMMOUN
Indexer
Tong Young
Monica Ajmera Mehta
Acquisition Editor
Graphics
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Valentina Dsilva
Lead Technical Editor
Production Coordinator
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Technical Editors
Cover Work
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About the Authors
Sherif Talaat is a young computer science addict. He is MCSA, MCSE, MCTS, and
MCITP certified. He has been working in the ICT industry since 2005. He used to
work on Microsoft core infrastructure platforms and solutions with main focus on IT
process automation and scripting techniques.
He is one of the early adopters of Windows PowerShell in the region called
MEA—Middle East and Africa. He speaks about Windows PowerShell in technical
events and user groups' gatherings; he is the founder of the "Egypt PowerShell User
Group" (http://powershellgroup.org/egypt), and is the author behind the first
and only Arabic PowerShell blog (http://arabianpowershell.wordpress.com).
He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for
PowerShell five times in row since 2009. You can also catch him at sheriftalaat.com.
Acknowledgement
I would like to take the chance to dedicate this book to the soul of my dad and to
thank my mom for her love, encouragement, and prayers. To my sisters Shereen
and Dalia, and my brother Amr, thank you so much for the usual support, feedback,
guidance, and for being proud of me.
To Israa, the best wife in the world, thanks for your love, support, and patience
during the long days and nights I have spent writing this book. I could not have
done this without you.
To my dear son Yahia, you were the hidden source of inspiration to complete this
book. Keep it up my son, I need this again in future engagements.
To Prof. Ahmed Bahaa, Refaat Issa, and Sherif Tawfik, thanks for everything you
taught me for building the unique, professional, persistent, and challenging person
inside me. I really can't thank you enough for the support, advice, trust, and belief
you had in me.
Last but not the least, thank you Packt Publishing for giving me the chance to
write this book. I'd also thank every team member who contributed to this project.
Rukhsana, Arshad, Dayan, the external reviewers, and the other guys whom I didn't
meet—your contributions were invaluable and this book wouldn't be what it is
without you.
Haijun Fu is a computer programmer and an author living in China. He was
educated at the Lanzhou University. He has been a Windows PowerShell Microsoft
Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2011.
With a strong focus on PowerShell, cloud computing, the next generation of Internet
security, Internet technology development, software testing, and database design,
he has been writing many articles in order to share his experience with others on
his blog. He has over 7 years of experience in software development and system
architecture design. He is skilled especially at systems analysis, architecture design,
and software project management.
In his spare time, he likes reading and writing. He is the author of two technical
books called Windows PowerShell 2.0 Application Programming Best, Practices Publishing
House of Electronics Industry in Mainland China and 350 PowerShell Utilize Example:
Windows Automation Technology Manual in Taiwan.
He can be found on the Web at fuhaijun.com and on Twitter as @fuhj02. You can
also reach him by e-mail at [email protected].
Acknowledgement
First and foremost, I'd like to thank my family who have always been a source of
inspiration and encouragement. Without their support, who knows where I'd be.
I am very thankful to my love, Ruby Liu, who has always stood by me, helped me
at all times, and has even smilingly got me cups of tea during my sleepless nights
of writing!
Writing a book is an interesting journey. Now that it's completed, looking back over
the last several months I'm amazed at how lucky I've been to come in contact with so
many terrific people.
I would also like to express my gratitude to my friend and co-author of this book,
Sherif Talaat, for giving me so many useful suggestions on this book.
I was fortunate to have three great guys as reviewers for my book, Mark
Andrews, Karim CAMMOUN, and Tong Young. They spent countless hours
providing feedback and examples, researching specific content, offering lots of
encouragement, and engaging with me in great discussions about PowerShell.
Thanks to the editorial and project team at Packt Publishing for giving me the
opportunity to write this book, and also being patient and understanding through
the process of writes, re-writes, technical edits. So a really big thanks goes to them,
especially Rukhsana, Dayan, Arshad, and many more.
The team at Packt Publishing, it was an honor and privilege working with you.
Last but not the least, I would like to thank my friends who helped me directly or
indirectly by giving me moral support.
About the Reviewers
Mark Andrews has had a varied career in technology. Over the last 18 years he has
worked in several departments ranging from customer service to quality assurance.
Throughout all of these positions, the responsibility of configuration management
and build management has always fallen either to him personally or to one of the
groups that he managed; because of his "keeping a hand in" management style, he
has been involved closely with the scripting and automation framework for this area.
Creating scripted frameworks that intercommunicate across machines, operating
systems or domain boundaries is a passion for him.
Karim CAMMOUN is an IT consultant based in Ecublens, Switzerland, and has
been working on Microsoft products for the past 20 years. With a strong expertise
on Microsoft server products, he is a key player in migration projects, analyzing
customer needs, and designing and deploying AD, Exchange, Lync, and Windows.
Besides, he also develops in C++, PowerShell, VBscript, and VBA.
Tong Young has been working in the IT industry since 2000, focusing on Microsoft
Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, SCCM, and SCOM. He is a PowerShell enthusiast
who uses PowerShell every day to automate tasks and add value to everyday tasks.
He is currently working at yellowpages.com.
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