James Boother Blog: AUTOMATING ADMIN TASKS WITH POWERSHELL

AGENDA A brief history lesson What’s new in 2.0? Quick look at Cmdlets What it won’t do Example admin tasks automated with PowerShell SQL Server specific admin tasks automated with PowerShell Scheduling Scripts Resources

IN THE BEGINNING…

AFTER YEARS OF RESEARCH POSH WAS BORN

CMDLETS Main building block of PowerShell Scripts Mini Commands that perform one action Common naming convention: Verb then Noun e.g.: Get-Help, Get-Object, Remove-Item –Destructive CmdLets have –WhatIf parameter Actually.NET Classes that can easily be created if new functionality is required The output of one Cmdlet can be piped into further cmdlets using the | operator Equality test with expressions such as –eq –lt –le

WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 2? PowerShell ISE – pre-installed on every Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 machine Remoting Background Jobs Transactions Modules Eventing

WHAT IT WON’T DO It won’t make the tea…

DEMO - VISUAL SCRIPTING ENVIRONMENT

DEMO – WMI SCRIPT Full access to WMI from within Powershell:

DELETING OLD BACKUP FILES

DEMO - FINDING FAILED SQL JOBS

SCHEDULING SCRIPTS SQL Server Agent or windows Task Scheduler

SQL SERVER PROVIDER Open PowerShell from within SQL Server Management Studio Open SQLPS Cmdlets and a Provider are provided: Also instantiate the SQL Server SMO Objects:

DEMO – HELP SERVER DOWN!

SUMMARY Powerful object based scripting engine Backwards compatible so you can start from what you already know Full access to File System; Registry; WMI; COM;.NET Objects and SQL Server Simple to schedule using Windows Scheduled Tasks or SQL Jobs Extensible through.NET

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