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02 Introduction To Power Shell

This document provides an introduction to Windows PowerShell, describing its key features and how it can be used for command line administration and scripting on Windows Server 2012. PowerShell allows administrators to perform many common tasks directly from the command line using cmdlets and pipelines, and provides a more powerful alternative to the traditional command prompt. It also serves as the underlying scripting engine that drives many aspects of the modern Windows GUI.

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02 Introduction To Power Shell

This document provides an introduction to Windows PowerShell, describing its key features and how it can be used for command line administration and scripting on Windows Server 2012. PowerShell allows administrators to perform many common tasks directly from the command line using cmdlets and pipelines, and provides a more powerful alternative to the traditional command prompt. It also serves as the underlying scripting engine that drives many aspects of the modern Windows GUI.

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Introduction to PowerShell

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Windows PowerShell
• PowerShell is relatively new and the entire windows
server 2012 operating system is built around it.
– we will see PowerShell throughout the operating system, how
the different functionalities of this server OS can be done with
PowerShell
• It can be regarded as the new command line interface
(command prompt), and it can be used as a scripting
engine
• In windows server 2012, the entire GUI is built on top of
it, i.e. we can do all the things we do in the GUI using
PowerShell
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Windows PowerShell
• PowerShell as a whole is huge (it can take a whole
course)
• You access windows PowerShell by clicking its icon on
the windows taskbar.

• Or we can open windows PowerShell from the server


manager, Tools menu
• Or use the start screen to open it as any other program

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Windows PowerShell
• PowerShell is used for command line
administration and also used for scripting
• It is more powerful than the cmd
• In PowerShell, we use commandlets (Cmdlet)
– E.g. get-location,
– It is verb-noun combination.
– We use command verbs like get, set, new etc
– Nouns like location, item, object, service, date etc

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Windows PowerShell
• We can use the help feature how to use a command
– E.g. “get-help get” lists all possible commands with “get”
• You can clear the screen using “clear-host” or “clear”
command (like the cls in cmd)
• The old cmd line command also work here (called
aliases)
• You can for example change the location of the
PowerShell prompt by typing “set-location” then the
place

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Windows PowerShell
• E.g. set-location desktop
• We can create a folder there as follows:
– New-item –name “my folder” –type directory
• To create a word file in it, do the following:
– Set-location “my folder”
• For names with blanks, put in quotation
– New-item –name “test file.docx” –type file

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Filtering with pipeline
• Type “get-service” lists all the services
• To filter only the services that are running, we
use pipeline | as follows:
Get-Service | where-object {$_.status – eq “Running”}
• The $_. represents “any” (wild card).
• You nan also use “name” on place of “status” to
see only one service
• We can nest pipeline deeper as follows:
Get-Service | where-object {$_.status – eq “Running”} | sort-object displayname

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Filtering with pipeline
• We can save the output to a text file
• E.g. type ipconfig
• To save the output, type the following:
Ipconfig | out-file “ip.txt”
• To see if you have created it, type “get-childitem”
• To append text to the above file, do the following
get-date|out-file “ip.txt” –append
• Check the file for the change

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Batch File
• To save a batch file (which is a script that can be run to do
something), we create file with .ps1 extension (power shell
extension).
• Type the following:
• new-item –name “date.ps1” –type file
• edit date.ps1
• Open the text file using any text editor and just type the PowerShell
script, for this case as a simple example, just type the following:
• Get-date
• Then save and exit: use the File menu save, then exit

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Batch File
• To run the script, type .\date.ps1
• If you get error because running scripts is
disabled by default (on workstations), type
set-executionpolicy remotesigned
• You see the result of the script

10
PowerShell ISE
• For users who are familiar with the GUI, there is a better
PowerShell environment, called windows PowerShell ISE
(integrated scripting environment)
– To open it, right click on the PowerShell icon at the windows
taskbar, select PowerShell ISE or you can find it using the Tools
menu at the server manager
• The PowerShell ISE assists us by auto populating certain
command when typing We use the tab key to select the
command it suggests
• Type Get-Command –Noun service
– This gives us all the commands that have to do with “service”
– We can do all those things related to service in powershell
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PowerShell ISE
• To see all the processes running on the system,
type get-process in PowerShell
– This is also the output we get using the task manager
– To see the task manager, you can right click on the task
bar, and select task manager, click on More Details to
see the details.
– Then click on view menu, and uncheck Group by type
– This list is equivalent to the PowerShell list by get-
process.

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PowerShell Vs Command Prompt
• Open command prompt (by typing cmd on the
run dialog box, or any other way)
• To see all the services that are running on
windows, type “net start” on command
prompt
• The equivalent command on PowerShell is
Get-Service | where-object {$_.status – eq “Running”}
• Which one is easier?

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PowerShell Vs Command Prompt
• From a typing perspective, net start is easier,
but from a memorization perspective
PowerShell command is easier.
– Net start is something you must know, it doesn’t
logically make sense till you learn it
– PowerShell command is more intuitive.
• PowerShell is so much more flexible, it is
capable of doing all the things we do using the
GUI
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