Master PowerShell Tricks Volume 2
The goal of this particular book is to give you some amazing Master PowerShell tips from the experts you come to see in person at the MVPDays Roadshow. Each chapter is broken down into a unique tip and we really hope you find some immense value in what we have written.
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The goal of this particular book is to give you some amazing Master PowerShell tips from the experts you come to see in person at the MVPDays Roadshow. Each chapter is broken down into a unique tip and we really hope you find some immense value in what we have written.
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About the Book
There are many cool things about Windows PowerShell. For me three of the most awesome things are the following:
1. If you don’t like the way Windows PowerShell does things, you can change it.
2. If Windows PowerShell can’t do something you need, you can add it.
3. The Windows PowerShell community is super dedicated, and will help you do both one and two.
Now, to be honest at times, it is necessary to write hundreds and hundreds of lines of arcane code, to dive into the deepest and darkest mysteries of programing, and even to learn about things like API’s, Constructors, Events, threading, ACL’s, DACL’s, CACL’s and maybe even Tetradactylies. Then again, most of the time it is not. In fact, it has been years and years since I wrote a hundreds and hundreds of lines of arcane code.
It is almost as if the Windows PowerShell team deliberately tried to make Windows PowerShell easy to use and easy to learn. Hmm … I wonder if that approach would ever catch on? Anyway, there used to be an old saw: “Ease of use is directly opposed to program capability.” Or, in other words, if it is easy to use, it probably is not all that powerful. Well, PowerShell changes that … dramatically.
And yet, Windows PowerShell is also deceptively easy to use. One can go from Get-Service and Get-Process or even Get-Date to some pretty complicated stuff in like one line of code.
This is why item number three is so important. The authors of this book: Dave, Sean, Will, Mick, Thomas and Allan are all Windows PowerShell experts, and have even been recognized by Microsoft as community leaders. So, this means not only do they know their stuff, but they are also great at sharing that knowledge with the community. Sean Kearney is even an Honorary Scripting Guy – a very elite group indeed!
One of the great way that MVP’s share their knowledge and experience is via MVP Days a traveling road show that was started by Dave and Cristal Kawula. This is a very well run event, and I have had the opportunity to speak at two of the events … it is cool, and it is fun.
So grab this book, get it autographed, and learn how to master some awesome PowerShell tricks. It is cool.
Ed Wilson
Microsoft Scripting Guy
@ScriptingGuys
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Dave Kawula
Dave is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. His background includes data communications networks within multi-server environments, and he has led architecture teams for virtualization, System Center, Exchange, Active Directory, and Internet gateways. Very active within the Microsoft technical and consulting teams, Dave has provided deep-dive technical knowledge and subject matter expertise on various System Center and operating system topics.
Dave is well-known in the community as an evangelist for Microsoft, 1E, and Veeam technologies. Locating Dave is easy as he speaks at several conferences and sessions each year, including TechEd, Ignite, MVP Days Community Roadshow, and VeeamOn.
Recently Dave has been honored to take on the role of Conference Co-Chair of TechMentor with fellow MVP Sami Laiho. The lineup of speakers and attendees that have been to this conference over the past 20 years is really amazing. Come down to Redmond or Orlando in 2018 and you can meet him in person.
As the founder and Managing Principal Consultant at TriCon Elite Consulting, Dave is a leading technology expert for both local customers and large international enterprises, providing optimal guidance and methodologies to achieve and maintain an efficient infrastructure.
BLOG: www.checkyourlogs.net
Twitter: @DaveKawula
Episode 87
An Interview with Dave Kawula
Thomas Rayner
Thomas Rayner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Honorary Scripting Guy with many years of experience in IT. He is a master technologist, specializing in DevOps, systems and process automation, public, private and hybrid cloud, and PowerShell. Thomas is an international speaker, best-selling author, and instructor covering a vast array of IT topics.
Allan Rafuse
Allan is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a Veeam Vanguard. Throughout his career, his skills have allowed him to work in variety of different industries (Oil and Gas, Banking and Healthcare) and also move to several Canadian provinces and even live in Europe. He has worked in many job roles that support the data center stack and cloud components and is also well versed in designing and deploying robust, highly available enterprise solutions in single or multi datacenter environments.
Integrating products and automation are passions of Allan. His solutions usually employ virtual environments (Hyper-V, VMware), Active Directory, SQL Server, System Center (SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM, SCORCH), Windows Server, Exchange, PowerShell, Veeam products and even Linux. He is an expert at scripting solutions and has an uncanny ability to reduce complexity and maximize the functionality of PowerShell.
Allan is a huge tech evangelist and the founder and Managing Principal Consultant at BroadArc Consulting. His consulting skills, vision, methodologies and frameworks have allowed many projects and solutions to thrive and succeed.
If you haven’t had the chance to personally meet Allan’s at an IT community speaking, you can always virtually follow him and introduce yourself on his blog or twitter.
BLOG: www.checkyourlogs.net | Twitter: @AllanRafuse | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allanrafuse/
Will Anderson
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword Ed Wilson “The Scripting Guy” iii
Acknowledgements v
From Dave v
About the Authors vi
Dave Kawula - MVP vi
Sean Kearney - MVP vii
Thomas Rayner - MVP vii
Allan Rafuse – MVP viii
Will Anderson – MVP ix
Mick Pletcher – MVP x
Ed Wilson – The Scripting Guy xi
Technical Editors xii
Cristal Kawula – MVP xii
Emile Cabot - MVP xii
Kai Poynting xiii
Contents xiv
Introduction 1
North American MVPDays Community Roadshow 1
Structure of the Book 2
Sample Files 3
Additional Resources 3
Chapter 1 5
PowerShell Regex to Get Value Between Quotation Marks 5
Chapter 2 7
How to Send an Email Whenever a File Gets Changed 7
Chapter 3 8
Using PowerShell to Add Groups to Accept messages only Distribution list members 8
The Code 9
Chapter 4 10
Installing and Finding Modules 10
Why use Install-Modules 10
Module Dependencies 10
Repositories 11
Managing Repositories 11
Finding Modules in the Repositories 11
Installing a Module 13
Proxy Configuration 14
Summary 14
Chapter 5 15
Use PowerShell to Validate Parameters for you 15
Common PowerShell Functions – NO Validation 16
PowerShell Features for Parameters 16
Problem 1 16
Problem 2 17
Problem 3 17
Solution 18
Other Parameter Validation Features 18
Chapter 6 19
PowerShell – My Way to Prepare a SQL Server VM 19
Template File 20
A look at library-PrepareSQLServer.ps1 21
Running the script 23
Chapter 7 25
Building Gold VHDx images with PowerShell 25
Define the Variables 26
Build $unnatendSource 26
Get-UnattendChunk 27
New-Unattendfile 28
New-BaseImage 29
Chapter 8 32
Using Try Catch to help with Decision Making in a Script 32
Chapter 9 36
Invoking your SCCM Client Remotely with PowerShell 36
Chapter 10 38
Use PoweShell to Parse RSS Feeds 38
Chapter 11 44
How to alter the public IP Address of an Azure Virtual Machine using PowerShell 44
The Challenge 44
Data formatting or using an existing example 44
Make the change 46
Chapter 12 48
Get the Public IP of an Azure VM with PowerShell 48
Chapter 13 49
SCCM Local Administrator Reporting with PowerShell 49
LocalAdmins.ps1 53
Chapter 14 58
Configuring Power Settings using PowerShell 58
Set-PowerScheme.ps1 58
Chapter 15 73
Automated SCCM Endpoint Full System Scan upon Infection with Email Notification 73
ApplicationVirusDetectionMethodEmail.ps1 75
AntiVirusScanEmail.ps1 76
Chapter 16 79
Laptop Mandatory Reboot Management with SCCM and PowerShell 79
MandatoryReboot.ps1 80
MandatoryRebootCustomDetection.ps1 82
Chapter 17 84
Set Windows Features with Verification 84
WindowsFeatures.ps1 85
Chapter 18 90
Easily Restore a Deleted Active Directory User with PowerShell 90
Chapter 19 91
Getting Large Exchange Mailbox Folders with PowerShell 91
Chapter 20 95
Getting your Organizations Largest Exchange Mailboxes with PowerShell 95
Chapter 21 99
Just Enough Administration (JEA) First Look 99
So how do you get started? 99
Chapter 22 105
Does a String Start or End in a Certain Character? 105
Chapter 23 107
Using PowerShell to List All the Fonts in a Word Document 107
Chapter 24 109
Find PowerShell Scripts in the GUI 109
Chapter 25 116
How to use PowerShell as an Administrative Console 116
Chapter 26 118
How to Erase Files based on Date using PowerShell 118
Chapter 27 121
Join us at MVPDays and meet great MVP’s like this in person 121
Live Presentations 121
Video Training 121
Live Instructor-led Classes 121
Consulting Services 122
Twitter 123
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