introduction to powershell (sharepoint fest chicago 2016 workshop)

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Introduction to PowerShell

MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL AND JACK FRUH


Who is Michael Blumenthal?

• Technical Solution Evangelist at PSC Group

• Office 365 MVP

• Dev/ITPro Mix

• In IT Consulting since 1995

• PowerShelling since 2007

We’re

Hiring!


Who is Jack Fruh?

• Cloud Architect• Fortune 500 Company

• Big on community• SPS Chicago Suburbs

Co-Leader• SharePointJack.com• SharePoint-

Community.org


This is about you

• Everyone have a laptop with you?

• Do you have PowerShell installed?

• Anyone used PowerShell before?

• Who’s done scripting before?

• Admin or Developer?


Introduce Yourself

• Your Name• Company Size• Your Role• O365 or SharePoint On Prem Version?• Where you are in your PowerShell journey• One thing you want PowerShell to solve?


What is PowerShell?


Why is PowerShell AWESOME?

Write-Host “SO easy to use!”

No Compiling!


• It’s Easy to Get Started!1• Learn the PowerShell Syntax2• Real World Examples3• Best Practices4• More Resources & Raffle5

PowerShell puts .NET at your fingertips!


Chapter 1

IT’S EASY TO GET STARTED!


Getting Started with PowerShell

20032008,R22012, R220167, 8, 8.1, 10


The Command Line Window


Windows Feature

Win 8.x

Win 8-10


The Integrated Script Editor

V2


PowerShell V3-5 ISE


Intellisense!


Now Run PowerShell

• $PSVerTable


Chapter 2

LEARN THE POWERSHELL SYNTAX!


Symbols, Keywords, and Syntax! Oh My!

• Variables1• Commands2• Piping3• Comparisons4• Flow Control5• Filtering6


Reading Symbols in Code

• (tal Guidance• Moe, Larry, and }• The universe started with the Big !• !Important• A # of Bacon and # Browns


Variables

• Case Insensitive, Dynamic typing

$something

$true, $false, $null, $profile

$myMessage= “Hello, World”

1


Your Turn

• Create a Variable• Assign something to it• Get its value


Commands are called cmdlets.

Verb-Noun

Built-in, Extensible

Get-Help

Get-Member

Get-Command

2


Help!


Your Turn

• Get-Help About_<CTRL+Space>

Discoverability


Get-Command

• Find Cmdlets• Get details of cmdlets and applications


Your Turn

• Get-command get-date• Get-date | Get-member• Name a method!

• Get-command *SPO*


Our Turn

• Get-help• Get-command –noun• Get-member


Aliases

Alias• Dir• Sort• Select• Foreach, also %

cmdlet• Get-ChildItem• Sort-object• Select-object• Foreach-object


Your Turn

• Get-Alias


The Power of Piping!

Output Of Command

1

Input of Command

2|

3


Example


Pipe Demo!


Your Turn

• Get-ChildItem | select –first 10

• Get-ChildItem| select -first 10 | Sort-Object -Property LastAccessTime | Select-Object -Property LastAccessTime, Name

• •


Dial zero for an…4

Operator

-eq -le-ne -like-gt -notlike-ge -match-lt -notmatch

Example


Taking Control of the Flow

• If (Test) {Commands} else {Commands}• if ($web.Title –ne “”) {Write-Host $web.Title}

If

• For (Init;Test;Repeat) {Commands}• for($i=1; $i -le 10; $i++) {Write-Host $i}For

• Foreach (Item in Collection) {Commands}• Foreach ($gumball in $CandyBag) {$gumball.color}

• Collection | Foreach {Commands}ForEach

• While (Condition){Commands}• while($val -ne 3){$val++; Write-Host $val}While

5


Example


Your Turn

• Comparisons• Arrays and Loops


Where-Object

•Where {<Test>}Syntax

• V1&2: Dir | Where {$_.Name –like “B*”}

• V3+: Dir | where Name –like B*

Example

6


Your Turn

• Where


Executing Scripts

.\filename.ps1

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted


Use Functions

Function global:Do-Something(){}

Function global:Do-Something($someParameter){}

Function global:Do-Something{param ([type]$someParameter=$(“Default Expression”))

}


Follow the Naming Convention!

Verb-Noun

• 98 Verbs


Modules

• .ps1m• Profile Path - $Profile• $env:PSModulePath


Chapter 3

CONNECTING TO SP AND O365


SharePoint On Prem

• SharePoint On Prem• SharePoint Management Console• 15 Hive POSH Script


Office 365

• SharePoint Online Management Console• Office Dev PnP PowerShell• Connect-SPOService


DEMO – SPO Sites


Parking Lot Question Check


Chapter 4

REAL WORLD EXAMPLES


Jack’s Scripts

• Examples


Real World Examples

• Dell Service Tag• Flashcards• Audio Alerts• File Conversion & Text

Manipulation• Managing Servers at Scale


Flash Cards


Get-DellServiceTag

• Get-WmiObject win32_SystemEnclosure | select serialnumber


Audio Alerts

• Stick this at the end of your long running script:

$Voice = new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice $Voice.Speak(“Deployment is done!")


File and Text Wrangling

• Word• AutoDOCX

• RegEx• PSObjTXT

• Export-• CSVCSV


Server Management

Server/Service Examples of What you can script

Azure Virtual Machines

Exchange Mailboxes

Office 365 Sites

SharePoint Everything

SQL Queries

Windows Server File system


Chapter 5

BEST PRACTICES


Comment your functions

<#.SYNOPSIS –a brief explanation of what the script or function does..DESCRIPTION – a more detailed explanation of what the script or function does..PARAMETER name – an explanation of a specific parameter. Replace name with the parameter name. You can have one of these sections for each parameter the script or function uses..EXAMPLE – an example of how to use the script or function. You can have multiple .EXAMPLE sections if you want to provide more than one example..NOTES – any miscellaneous notes on using the script or function..LINK – a cross-reference to another help topic; you can have more than one of these. If you include a URL beginning with http:// or https://, the shell will open that URL when the Help command’s –online parameter is used.

#>


Search for Commands

Refresh the command list

Actions you can take


Self Announcing Functions

…


Source Code Control


Always read scripts before running them

More Good Ideas


Always read scripts before running them.Make yours safe when others don’t

More Good Ideas


Always read scripts before running themMake yours safe when others don’tCheck for valid parameter values get-help about_Functions_Advanced_Parameters

More Good Ideas


Always read scripts before running themMake yours safe when others don’tCheck for valid parameter values get-help about_Functions_Advanced_Parameters Do error handling get-help about_Try_Catch_Finally get-help about_CommonParameters

-ErrorAction and -ErrorVariable

More Good Ideas


Chapter 6

RESOURCES


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JEFF HICKS


Another Book:


TechCommunity.microsoft.com


PowerShell.org


SharePoint Jack


Get Jack’s Cheat Sheet

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Blumenthal’s Blog: MichaelBlumenthal.me


Interview with Don Jones

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