© 2010 Quest Software, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Techstravaganza 2010 PowerShell AD commandlets Barry Gerdsen Solutions Architect - Quest Software

2 Agenda Introduction overview PowerShell for AD management PowerGUI Powershell Scripting & Debugging

3 Administration before PowerShell 3 Platform Functionality Graphical Console

4 Is UI World Much Better? Every platform has its own administrative UI Once you go beyond simple one object operations you need scripting Tools are static: once a year a vendor releases what it thinks people need

5 Administration before PowerShell 5 Platform Functionality Graphical Console Command lineCOMWMI

6 PowerShell Way 6 Platform Functionality PowerShell

7 PowerShell Way 7 Platform Functionality PowerShell Command LineGUIScripts and Apps

8 Introducing PowerGUI 8 PowerShell ExchangeSQLVMwareCitrixAD PowerGUI

9 Layers of PowerShell Solution Admin Console – PowerGUI This is for the majority of day-to-day one off tasks Intuitive, easy to use, extensible graphical console Scripting Environment – PowerGUI Editor Integrated Development Environment (IDE) when you need to script something more advanced Command Line & Platform – AD cmdlets To run a one-off task or work in the Platform foundation

10 DEMO Managing AD with PowerShell command-line 10

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12 Layers of PowerShell Solution Admin Console – PowerGUI This is for the majority of day-to-day one off tasks Intuitive, easy to use, extensible graphical console Scripting Environment – PowerGUI Editor Integrated Development Environment (IDE) when you need to script something more advanced Command Line & Platform – AD cmdlets To run a one-off task or work in the Platform foundation

13 PowerGUI DEMO Main Console –Tree nodes –Result set –Links –Actions PowerShell Editor –Intellisense –Online Search –Debugging PowerGUI Resources –PowerPacks –Discussion Forums 13

14 DEMO Overview of PowerGUI 14

15 Additional Info Special user group pricing on PowerGUI Pro ($99) –

16 Resources MSDN PowerShell Blog – Good Starting Tutorial – PowerGUI Community – Free Tools from Quest –Look for PowerGUI and the AD cmdlets at: