2006 Holiday Season Scripting Technology Update

1. 2006 Holiday Season Scripting Technology Update John Kelbley Steve Carbone Account Technology Specialist Account Technology Specialist Microsoft Microsoft johnkel@Microsoft.com scarbone@Microsoft.com Title screen you can use if you want to include photos/titles for both presenters.Title screen you can use if you want to include photos/titles for both presenters.

2. Goals Of The Presentation Enjoy the Holiday Event! Understanding of script usage by Windows IT Pros Review high-level automation options / tools The new face of Windows automation � PowerShell Cool stuff you can do PowerShell roadmap My favorite tool - WMIC Differences from PowerShell Cool stuff you can do Resources Review Events you need to know about

3. Goals Of The Presentation Enjoy the Holiday Event! Understanding of script usage by Windows IT Pros Review high-level automation options / tools The new face of Windows automation � PowerShell Cool stuff you can do PowerShell roadmap My favorite tool - WMIC Differences from PowerShell Cool stuff you can do Resources Review Events you need to know about

4. Do Windows IT Pros use a CLI shell and scripts? 75% of Windows IT Pros in MidMarket & Enterprise use CMD.EXE. PERLshell is a clear second, but with only 24% usage 71% of Windows IT Pros use CMD/BAT scripts for desktop system administration. 46% of IT Pros use VBScripts for desktop system administration. �Lack of Time� is a common reason why IT Pros do not use scripts for system administration. � Microsoft Internal Research 2005 (N=171)

5. What do IT Pros use scripts for? Almost all system administration tasks! >75% of IT Pros would like to automate more

6. Ease of use Easy to write scripts without a systems programmer Consistency across all Windows features A single command shell and a consistent command line experience across all Windows components Compatibility with existing infrastructure Backward compatibility Microsoft Internal Research � 2005 � (171 IT Pros)

7. Learning curve / Lack of training / Lack of examples �The biggest obstacle to using WMI and the variety of AD scripting methods that exist now is that it's too complicated for a non-developer to learn.� �Lack of sample scripts to perform common tasks and the need to be a developer in order to develop new scripts� Lack of compatibility with existing tools, scripts & OSes �Can I run it on Windows 2000, 2003, and Longhorn, or just the latest Longhorn? If only the latter, that would severely impact its usefulness to us.� �Lack of backwards compatibility with preexisting utilities, scripts, etc.� Cost to purchase or migrate �Cost. That always seems to be the big blocker.� Lack of evidence of adoption or value for an organization �Need evidence that others are using it.� Microsoft Internal Research � 2006

8. Inconsistent Naming Syntax Help Output Too few utilities Missing integration between Shell and scripting language Command line and GUIs Bottom line: CMD.Exe tools and VBScript are not optimal for maximizing IT Pro productivity and task automation.

9. Goals Of The Presentation Enjoy the Holiday Event! Understanding of script usage by Windows IT Pros Review high-level automation options / tools The new face of Windows automation � PowerShell Cool stuff you can do PowerShell roadmap My favorite tool - WMIC Differences from PowerShell Cool stuff you can do Resources Review Events you need to know about

10. Automation Tools You Must Know About� PowerShell WMIC VBScript

11. Easy to Use Easy to Adopt Supports existing OSes, scripts and cmd line tools Easy to Learn shell & language Intuitive verb-noun syntax Get-process; get-wmiobject Easy to Use � Admin-focused utilities & commands Ability to navigate management data as if it is a file system You are more productive. Provides greater control of the Windows environment Accelerates automation of system administration

12. Windows PowerShell Design Principals Preserves investment Existing scripts and command line tools Commands, VB, COM, WMI, � Powerful object manipulation Objects can be directly manipulated Pipelined to other tools Expose the consistency & functionality of .NET to IT Pros Extensibility for administrators Quickly write scripts Customize commands Author their own tools (�cmdlets�) Easy development model Ease new tool development

13. Windows PowerShell Overview Easy to Use Designed for non-programmers Uniform syntax, naming, help, output, semantics Built in utilities Datastores exposed as filesystems Native, uniform support for ADSI, WMI, COM, XML, ADO, HTML, CSV Easy to Adopt Free Runs on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server �Longhorn�. Existing commands and scripts get 2-10x more powerful by invoking them from PowerShell Easy to Learn Extensive learning content (getting started guides, books, webcasts), script examples and community support make it easy for you to learn to use Windows PowerShell. Robust community support via blogs, discussion groups and sharing of scripts Extensive script examples for system administration reduce amount of time required to write a custom script.

14. Windows PowerShell Overview IT Pros are more productive Scripting language supports wide range of scripting styles from simple to sophisticated Powerful utilities reduce the amount of programming required to do sophisticated tasks Leverages the power of .NET Logging, error-handling, debug and trace capabilities

15. PowerShell Demo John�s 2nd Favorite Command�

16. Cool PowerShell Stuff to know You can go new places! Get-psdrive Name Provider Root ---- -------- ---- Alias Alias C FileSystem C:\ cert Certificate \ D FileSystem D:\ Env Environment Function Function HKCU Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER HKLM Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Variable Variable You can navigate the registry! cd hklm: You can navigate the certificate store! cd cert:

17. Cool PowerShell Stuff to know You find out about �parts�  Get-service | Get-member You can make graphs!get-process | sort-object WS -descending | select-object -first 8 | select-object name,ws |out-chart -gallery pie

18. Cool PowerShell Stuff to know You do LOTS of things�loop, color code�.$colItems = get-wmiobject Win32_Process foreach ($objItem in $colItems) { if ($objItem.WorkingSetSize -gt 30000000) { write-host $objItem.Name, $objItem.WorkingSetSize -foregroundcolor "magenta" } else {write-host $objItem.Name, $objItem.WorkingSetSize} }

19. Cool PowerShell Stuff to know get-process | sort �descending WS

20. Sample CmdLts I might have used� EvENTLOG Get-EventLog �list Get-EventLog -list | Where-Object {$_.logdisplayname -eq "System"} get-eventlog system Get-EventLog system -newest 10 Get-EventLog system -newest 3 | Format-List Get-EventLog Windows System | Where-Object {$_.EventID -eq 3004} get-eventlog system | findstr "WinDefend" Get-EventLog system | Group-Object eventid | Sort-Object Name Get-EventLog system | Group-Object eventid | Sort-Object Count help sort Get-EventLog system | Group-Object eventid | Sort-Object Count �descending PROCESS Get-Process Get-Process powerpnt Get-Process p* Get-Process | Select-Object name,fileversion,productversion,company Stop-Process �processname notepad

21. Windows PowerShell Roadmap Windows PowerShell available now as a download from microsoft.com\downloads Available for Windows XP & Windows Server 2003 Requires .NET Framework 2.0 Vista RTM support coming soon Windows PowerShell is part of the 2009 Common Engineering Criteria

22. PowerShell Call To Action Download and evaluate Windows PowerShell www.microsoft.com/powershell Please consider whether PowerShell will provide value to you!

23. PowerShell Links & Resources Try to limit to TOP 5 links and ResourcesTry to limit to TOP 5 links and Resources

24. WMIC: John�s Favorite Command Command line interface to WMI Developed by the same folks that created PowerShell Comes in the box and with XP, Server 2003, Vista, and Longhorn Works on �Server Core�

25. Server Core Desktop

26. WMIC Demo John�s Favorite Command�

27. Sample WMIC stuff I may have used� PROCESS Process process list PROCESS WHERE NAME="notepad.exe" CALL Terminate process where description="notepad.exe" delete Process call create "calc.exe� Process where Name="calc.exe" call Terminate Process where name="svchost.exe" get name, processid NETWORK CONFIGURATION Nicconfig nicconfig get macaddress Set Static Network Config NICCONFIG where Index=1 Call Enable Static ("10.0.0.2"),("255.0.0.0") :Set Gateways NICCONFIG where Index=1 Call SetGateways ("10.0.0.8"),("10.0.0.9"),(1,2) :Set WINS NICCONFIG where Index=1 Call SetWINSServer ("10.11.12.13"),("10.22.23.24") :Set DHCP NICCONFIG WHERE Index=1 CALL Enable DHCP /FAILFAST /NODE:@filename.txt NICCONFIG WHERE Index=1 CALL Enable DHCP

28. HTML Output: Table WMIC /output:c:\os1.html os get /all /format:htable.xsl

29. HTML Output: Table WMIC /output:c:\os_list.html /Node:johnkelnc6000, "johnkel-fer", "johnkel-lhsrv" os get Caption, CSDVersion /format:htable.xsl

30. HTML Output: Table WMIC /output:c:\os1.html os get /all /format:htable.xsl

31. HTML Output: Form WMIC /output:c:\os2.html os get /all /format:hform.xsl

32. Putting it all Together�

33. WMIC Call to Action! Use it to automate admin tasks NOW! Checkout September 2006 TechNet Magazinehttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/09/WMIData/default.aspx 5/24/2012 33

34. Goals Of The Presentation Enjoy the Holiday Event! Understanding of script usage by Windows IT Pros Review high-level automation options / tools The new face of Windows automation � PowerShell Cool stuff you can do PowerShell roadmap My favorite tool - WMIC Differences from PowerShell Cool stuff you can do Resources Review Events you need to know about

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37. Goals Of The Presentation Enjoy the Holiday Event! Understanding of script usage by Windows IT Pros Review high-level automation options / tools The new face of Windows automation � PowerShell Cool stuff you can do PowerShell roadmap My favorite tool - WMIC Differences from PowerShell Cool stuff you can do Resources Review Events you need to know about

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