PowerShell 7 for IT Professionals

Take advantage of everything Microsoft’s new PowerShell 7 has to offer PowerShell 7 for IT Pros is your guide to using PowerShell 7, the open source, cross-platform version of Windows PowerShell. Windows IT professionals can begin setting up automation in PowerShell 7, which features many improvements over the early version of PowerShell Core and Windows PowerShell. PowerShell 7 users can enjoy the high level of compatibility with the Windows PowerShell modules they rely on today. This book shows IT professionals—especially Windows administrators and developers—how to use PowerShell7 to engage in their most important tasks, such as managing networking, using AD/DNS/DHCP, leveraging Azure, and more. To make it easy to learn everything PowerShell 7 has to offer, this book includes robust examples, each containing sample code so readers can follow along. Scripts are based on PowerShell 7 running on Windows 10 19H1 or later and Windows Server 2019. •          Learn to navigate the PowerShell 7 administrative environment •          Use PowerShell 7 to automate networking, Active Directory, Windows storage, shared data, and more •          Run Windows Update, IIS, Hyper-V, and WMI and CIM cmdlets within PowerShell 7 •          Understand how to handle reporting in the new PowerShell 7 environment PowerShell 7 for IT Pros provides exclusive coverage of using PowerShell with both cloud-based systems and virtualized environments (Hyper V and Azure). Written by PowerShell veteran Thomas Lee, this is the only book you’ll need to get started with PowerShell 7.

Table of Contents:
Foreword xiii Introduction xxxiii Chapter 1 Setting Up a PowerShell 7 Environment 1 What is New in PowerShell 7 2 Systems Used in This Book and Chapter 3 Installing PowerShell 7 5 Installing and Configuring VS Code 14 Using the PowerShell Gallery 21 Creating a Local PowerShellGet Repository 24 Creating a Code-Signing Environment 30 Summary 35 Chapter 2 PowerShell 7 Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 37 Examining PowerShell Modules 38 Introducing the Compatibility Solution 48 Things That Do Not Work with PowerShell 7 51 Summary 54 Chapter 3 Managing Active Directory 55 Systems Used in This Chapter 58 Establishing a Forest Root Domain 60 Installing a Replica DC 66 Installing a Child Domain 70 Configuring a Cross-Forest Trust 75 Managing AD Users, Computers, and OUs 86 Adding Users to AD via a CSV 96 Configuring Just Enough Administration (JEA) 100 Summary 109 Chapter 4 Managing Networking 111 Systems Used in This Chapter 112 Configuring IP Addressing 113 Testing Network Connectivity 117 Installing the DHCP Service 121 Configuring DHCP Scopes 124 Configuring DHCP Failover 128 Configuring the DNS Service 133 Configuring DNS Zones and Resource Records 138 Summary 144 Chapter 5 Managing Storage 145 Systems Used in This Chapter 146 Managing Disks and Volumes 147 Managing NTFS Permissions 154 Managing Storage Replica 163 Managing Filestore Quotas 175 Managing File Screening 183 Summary 190 Chapter 6 Managing Shared Data 191 Systems Used in This Chapter 193 Setting Up and Securing an SMB File Server 194 Creating and Securing SMB Shares 198 Creating and Using an iSCSI Target 207 Setting Up a Clustered Scale-Out File Server 218 Summary 229 Chapter 7 Managing Printing 231 Systems Used in This Chapter 232 Installing and Sharing Printers 233 Publishing a Printer in AD 238 Changing the Spool Folder 240 Printing a Test Page 245 Creating a Printer Pool 248 Summary 249 Chapter 8 Managing Hyper-V 251 Systems Used in This Chapter 253 Installing and Configuring Hyper-V 254 Creating a Hyper-V VM 257 Using PowerShell Direct 262 Configuring VM Networking 265 Configuring VM Hardware 271 Implementing Nested Virtualization 277 Using VM Checkpoints 282 Using VM Replication 291 Managing VM Movement 305 Measuring VM Resource Usage 311 Summary 314 Chapter 9 Using WMI with CIM Cmdlets 315 Exploring WMI Namespaces 320 Exploring WMI Classes 328 Getting Local and Remote Objects 330 Invoking WMI Methods 334 Managing WMI Events 339 Implementing Permanent WMI Event Handling 347 Summary 355 Chapter 10 Reporting 357 Systems Used in This Chapter 358 Reporting on AD Users and Computers 359 Managing Filesystem Reporting 365 Collecting Performance Information Using PLA 374 Reporting on PLA Performance Data 379 Creating a Performance Monitoring Graph 382 Creating a System Diagnostics Report 385 Reporting on Printer Usage 387 Creating a Hyper-V Status Report 390 Reviewing Event Logs 395 Summary 402 Index 403

About the Author :
THOMAS LEE is an IT consultant/trainer/writer who holds numerous Microsoft certifications. He has been awarded Microsoft's MVP award 17 times. He has written numerous books on TCP/IP and PowerShell. Thomas currently helps clients to deliver training and build training courses. He continues to give back to the community as Group Administrator for the PowerShell forum on Spiceworks, where he is also a Site Moderator.