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PROF. POWERSHELL: Automated Power for IT
By Jeffery Hicks
Who doesn't need more power? Especially when that power can
help you
get your job done faster and more efficiently. One way to
get more
power is to begin using Windows PowerShell. PowerShell is
Microsoft's
next generation management shell. It is as easy to use as
the Cmd.exe
shell and as powerful as any Unix shell. The reason this
matters to
you is that PowerShell is now part of Microsoft's common
engineering
criteria. This means that any new Microsoft product that you
are likely
to work with must support PowerShell. In fact, management
will be built
on PowerShell. Sure, there may be a GUI, but the GUI will be
built on
top of PowerShell. Exchange 2007 is the first Microsoft
product that
follows this model.
What does this mean to you? I think there will always be a
job category
that will continue to use GUI-based tools, even those
running
PowerShell. But the administrators who will advance or at
least be
more efficient will be those who master the PowerShell
console. That
is the goal of this column: to increase your understanding
and
awareness of PowerShell and its capabilities. My mission, as
Prof.
PowerShell, is to educate you on how PowerShell works, as
well as
provide real-world solutions using Windows PowerShell. I
firmly
believe that once you understand PowerShell fundamentals and
see it
in action, learning new products like Exchange 2007 will be
much
easier. And, you'll be able to quickly leverage the new
product
functionality in a shorter period.
PowerShell is built on the .NET Framework, which makes it an
object-
based shell as compared to the text-based shell of Cmd.exe
or even a
Unix or Linux shell. As you'll see this makes a tremendous
difference
and accounts for the "power" in PowerShell.
If you don't have it installed yet, download the version
appropriate
for your OS and processor (there are 32- and 64-bit flavors)
from
Microsoft. The PowerShell team has released a community
technology
preview of v2.0, but it is not approved for production. I
will be
focusing on PowerShell 1.0, although I may discuss a few
v2.0 features
every once in a while to whet your appetite.
In the mean time, I encourage you to visit
PowerShellCommunity.org.
This is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
promote
PowerShell. You'll find many PowerShell-related blogs, a
script
library, discussion forums and much more. The goal is that
this will
be the place to go for PowerShell resources and
information.
I hope you'll join me for the ride as we discover new ways
to bring
more power to your job.
Comment: http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.aspx?editorialsid
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Jeffery Hicks, MCSE, MCSA, is a Microsoft PowerShell MVP and
scripting guru for SAPIEN Technologies. Jeff is a 16 year IT
veteran
who has co-authored and written several books, courseware
and
training videos on administrative scripting and automation.
He is
the co-author of Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows
Administrators (Microsoft Press) and Windows PowerShell:TFM
(SAPIEN Press). His latest is WSH and VBSCript Core:TFM
(SAPIEN Press).
Check out MCPmag.com's column archive for more savvy tips
and tricks
from Jeff, Greg Shields, Chris Wolf and other frequent
contributors.
http://mcpmag.com/columns/
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WINDOWS VISTA REGISTRY CRASH: My girlfriend's computer
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SERVER MIRRORING FOR WINDOWS 2003 TS: I'm looking for server
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DELEGATE CONTROL: I delegate control to helpdesk group to be
able
to change and reset password. However members of helpdesk
group are
not able to check the checkbox (because is grayed out):
"user must
change password at next logon", for some of the users
in the domain.
For the majority users (even in the same OU), members of
helpdesk
group are being able to check that option.
Already checked the kb article 296999.
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REJOINING WORKSTATION TO DOMAIN: Our happy little SBS 2003
which has
been operating for three years had a power supply fail two
days ago.
While it was down I thought I might get our required network
functionality by moving two of the workstations back to a
"workgroup"
instead of being on the domain.
Well now our server is back and for the life of me I can't
rejoin
these two workstations back to the domain controller. I get
the
"Logon Failure: The target account name is
incorrect." Any clues?
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