Introduction to Microsoft Windows PowerShell

• Introduction to Windows PowerShell
• Installing Windows PowerShell in Windows Server 2008
• Customizing Windows PowerShell

Overview of Microsoft Windows PowerShell

• Overview of Objects
• Working with cmdlets
• Tab Expansion, Aliases, and History
• Using Variables and Types
• Learning cmdlets and Defining Aliases
• Holding the Output of a cmdlet
• Relationship between information and operations that are bundled together into various classes of objects
• Get-Command and Get-Help to obtain information about other cmdlets and their parameters.
• Tab expansion, aliases, and history
• Numeric and string operations using Windows PowerShell, including holding temporary values in variables

Building Pipelines for Assembly-Line Style Processing

• Using Pipelines
• Using Arrays
• Filtering and Iterating Through the Pipeline
• Reordering Objects in a Pipeline
• Evaluating Process Properties Using the Get-Member cmdlet
• Calculate Process Memory Usage
• Associative Array Variables
• Sorting and Selecting Elements from a Resultant Set of Data

Managing Processes and Formatting Cmdlet Output

• Managing Windows Processes with Microsoft Windows PowerShell
• Formatting cmdlet Output
• Output Formatting and Process Control with Windows PowerShell
• Implementing Basic Formatting Control
• Formatting with the -f Operator
• Implementing Advanced Formatting

Scripting with Microsoft Windows PowerShell

• Writing Windows PowerShell Scripts
• Script Parameters
• Security in Windows PowerShell
• Customizing Windows PowerShell with Profiles

Implementing Flow Control and Functions

• Controlling the Flow of Execution Within Scripts
• Iteration Flow Control
• Developing and Using Functions

Working with Files, the Registry, and Certificate Stores

• Using Data Stores
• Using Providers
• Filtering and Selecting with Regular Expressions
• Implementing Event Log Management
• Persisting Objects in Files
• Modifying Registry Entries
• Generating Reports
• Generating Reports on the Security Log
• Comparing Files

Managing the Windows Operating System Using Microsoft Windows PowerShell and WMI

• Introduction to WMI and WMI Objects
• Managing Disks and Disk Volumes Using Windows PowerShell with WMI
• Managing Shadow Copies Using Windows PowerShell with WMI
• Managing Shared Folders with Windows PowerShell
• Managing Terminal Services with WMI
• Managing IIS 7.0 with WMI

Administering Active Directory with Microsoft Windows PowerShell

• Administering Domains and Forests Using .NET Objects
• Managing User Accounts and Groups Using ADSI
• Managing Relationships Between Users and Groups
• Web Administration Using IIS 7.0

Administering Group Policy in Microsoft Windows PowerShell Using COM

• Managing GPOs Using the GPMC COM Interface
• Managing Group Policy Objects
• Reporting Group Policy
• Backing Up and Restoring a GPO