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Windows Server 2008 PowerShell
View All CoursesThis course is aimed at teaching Windows administrators a broad range of management tasks using Windows PowerShell 2.0. The focus is on general Windows Server 2008 R2 administration. These are topics that apply to all server roles. Emphasis is made on using Microsoft authored cmdlets in an interactive console session. Writing scripts and functions will be introduced to you, including 10 tasks that help every Windows Admin. This course takes a task-oriented approach, that is, how do I accomplish a typical management task using Windows PowerShell?
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- Introduction
- Who Is Your Instructor?
- Why Is This Important?
- How Do You Use This Course?
- Course Overview
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Prerequisite Knowledge
- What is the Scenario?
- Lab Setup
- Demo: Lab Setup
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Change the Local Administrator Password
- Restart or Shutdown a Server
- Restart a Service
- Terminate a Process
- Create a Disk Utilization Report
- Get 10 Most Recent Event Log Errors
- Reset Access Control on a Folder
- Get a Server's Uptime
- Get Service Pack Information
- Delete Old Files
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Documenting Roles and Features
- Adding Roles and Features
- Removing Roles and Features
- Demo: Managing Roles and Features
- Server Hardware Inventory and Documentation
- Server Software Inventory and Documentation
- Demo: Inventory and Documentation
- Finding Service Packs and Hot Fixes
- Demo: Service Packs and Hot Fixes
- Shutting Down a Server
- Restarting a Server
- Demo: Shutdown and Reboot
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Searching Event Logs
- Demo: Searching Event Logs
- Backing Up Event Logs
- Demo: Backup Event Logs
- Writing Event Logs
- Demo: Writing to Event Logs
- Managing Event Log Settings
- Demo: Managing Event Log Settings
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Service Reporting
- Demo: Service Reporting
- Service Management: Stopping
- Service Management: Starting
- Demo: Controlling Services
- Service Configuration: Startup Mode
- Service Configuration: Setting Service Account
- Service Configuration: Setting Account Password
- Demo: Service Configuration
- Monitoring Service Changes
- Demo: Monitor Service Changes
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Process Reporting
- Demo: Process Reporting
- Terminating a Process
- Launching a Remote Process
- Demo: Controlling Processes
- Monitoring Process Changes
- Demo: Monitor Process Changes
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Creating Folders
- Creating File Shares
- Removing File Shares
- Demo: Creating and Deleting Folders and Shares
- Managing File Sessions
- Demo: Managing File Sessions
- Copying Files
- Moving Files
- Deleting Files
- Compressing Files
- Demo: Copy, Move and Compress Files
- File Reporting
- Demo: File Reporting
- Monitoring Files and Folders
- Demo: Monitoring Files and Folders
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Retrieving File/Folder Access Control
- Changing File/Folder Access Control
- Change File/Folder Permissions
- Managing File/Folder Inheritance
- Managing File/Folder Auditing
- Demo: File and Folder Access Control
- Retrieving File Share Permissions
- Changing File Share Permissions
- Demo: Managing Share Permissions
- Provisioning a File Share
- Demo: Provision a File Share with PowerShell
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Enumerating Print Devices
- Managing a Print Device
- Adding a Print Device
- Removing a Print Device
- Demo: Managing Print Devices
- Managing the Print Queue
- Pausing and Resuming a Print Queue
- Managing Print Jobs
- Demo: Managing Print Queues and Jobs
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Using the Registry Provider and PSDrive
- Demo: Navigating the Registry
- Searching the Registry
- Demo: Searching the Registry
- Modifying the Registry
- Demo: Modifying the Registry
- Using Transactions
- Demo: Using Transactions
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Measuring System Uptime
- Measuring Process Uptime
- Measuring Service Uptime
- Demo: Measuring Uptime
- Performance Monitoring with WMI
- Demo: Performance Monitoring with WMI
- Using Performance Counters in PowerShell
- Performance Counters in PowerShell
- Demo: Performance Counters in PowerShell
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What Have We Learned?
- What Should You Do Next?
- PowerShell Next Steps
- PowerShell Next Steps: Active Directory
- Demo: PowerShell and Active Directory
- PowerShell Next Steps: Group Policy
- Demo: PowerShell and Group Policy
- PowerShell Next Steps: IIS
- Demo: PowerShell and IIS
- PowerShell Next Steps: SQL Server
- Demo: PowerShell and SQL Server
- My Favorite PowerShell Resources
- TrainSignal Resources
- We Value Your Opinion
- What We Covered
Instructor
Jeff Hicks
Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with over 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He works today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. Jeff writes the popular Prof. PowerShell column for MPCMag.com, is a regular contributor to the Petri IT Knowledgebase, 4SysOps and the Altaro Hyper-V blog, as well as frequent speaker at technology conferences and user groups. If he isn't writing, Jeff is most likely recording training videos for companies like TrainSignal or hanging out in the forums at PowerShell.org.
Jeff's latest books are Learn PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches and PowerShell in Depth: An Administrators Guide.
You can keep up with Jeff at his blog jdhitsolutions.com/blog on twitter at twitter.com/jeffhicks and on Google Plus at http://gplus.to/JeffHicks
