Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

372 Pages·2013·23.199 MB·English

by  Ed Goad

Windows Server 2012
Automation with
PowerShell Cookbook
Over 110 recipes to automate Windows Server
administrative tasks by using PowerShell
Ed Goad
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Windows Server 2012 Automation with
PowerShell Cookbook
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Credits
Author Project Coordinator
Ed Goad Anugya Khurana
Reviewers Proofreaders
Anderson Patricio Mario Cecere
Donabel Santos Dirk Manuel
Acquisition Editor Indexer
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Commissioning Editor Graphics
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About the Author
Ed Goad is a Systems Architect who has been working in various roles in the IT field for 16
years. He first 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 certifications, most recently including the Microsoft
Certified IT Professional—Enterprise Administrator. Additional non-Microsoft certifications
include VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA),
EMC Proven Professional, Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE), and Cisco Certified
Network Associate (CCNA).
Ed is currently on sabbatical, and is volunteering full time at the Amor Fe y Esperanza
school in Honduras (http://www.afehonduras.org). 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 first 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.
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
www.andersonpatricio.ca 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 http://twitter.com/apatricio.
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 certifications for SQL Server 2005/2008, and an MCTS for SharePoint. She is a
Microsoft Certified 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).
Donabel blogs (www.sqlmusings.com), tweets (@sqlbelle), 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 first 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
selflessly 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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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 profiles 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 e-mail 36
Sorting and filtering 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
Configuring static networking 60
Installing domain controllers 67
Configuring zones in DNS 70
Configuring DHCP scopes 75
Configuring DHCP server failover 77
Converting DHCP addresses to static 78