Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Understanding PowerShell Scripting
• Introduction
• Managing security on PowerShell scripts
• Creating and using functions
• Creating and using modules
• Creating and using PowerShell profiles
• Passing variables to functions
• Validating parameters in functions
• Piping data to functions
• Recording sessions with transcripts
• Signing PowerShell scripts
• Sending e-mail
• Sorting and filtering
• Using formatting to export numbers
• Using formatting to export data views
• Using jobs
• Dealing with errors in PowerShell
• Tuning PowerShell scripts for performance
• Creating and using Cmdlets

• Chapter 2: Managing Windows Network Services with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Configuring static networking
• Installing domain controllers
• Configuring zones in DNS
• Configuring DHCP scopes
• Configuring DHCP server failover
• Converting DHCP addresses to static
• Building out a PKI environment
• Creating AD users
• Searching for and reporting on AD users
• Finding expired computers in AD
• Creating and e-mailing a superuser report

• Chapter 3: Managing IIS with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Installing and configuring IIS
• Configuring IIS for SSL
• Configuring a Central Certificate Store
• Configuring IIS bindings
• Configuring IIS logging
• Managing log files
• Configuring NLB across multiple servers
• Monitoring load balancing across NLB nodes
• Placing NLB nodes into maintenance
• Configuring a development/staging/production site scheme
• Promoting content in websites
• Reporting on website access and errors

• Chapter 4: Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Installing and configuring Hyper-V
• Configuring NUMA
• Securing Hyper-V
• Hyper-V networking
• Creating virtual machines
• Managing VM state
• Configuring VM networking
• Configuring VM hardware
• Quickly deploying VMs using a template
• Managing and reporting on VM snapshots
• Monitoring Hyper-V utilization and performance
• Synchronizing networks between Hyper-V hosts
• Hyper-V replication
• Migrating VMs between hosts
• Migrating VM storage between hosts
• Using failover clustering to make VMs highly available

• Chapter 5: Managing Storage with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Managing NTFS file permissions
• Managing NTFS alternate streams
• Configuring NTFS deduplication
• Monitoring NTFS deduplication
• Configuring storage pools
• Reporting on storage pools
• Managing file quotas

• Chapter 6: Managing Network Shares with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Creating and securing CIFS shares
• Accessing CIFS shares from PowerShell
• Creating iSCSI target and virtual disk
• Using a iSCSI disk
• Configuring and using iSNS
• Creating an NFS export
• Mounting NFS exports
• Making CIFS shares highly available
• Configuring DFS and DFSR replication
• Configuring BranchCache

• Chapter 7: Managing Windows Updates with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Installing Windows Server Update Services
• Configuring WSUS update synchronization
• Configuring the Windows update client
• Creating computer groups
• Configuring WSUS auto-approvals
• Reporting missing updates
• Installing updates
• Uninstalling updates
• Configuring WSUS to inventory clients
• Creating an update report
• Exporting WSUS data to Excel

• Chapter 8: Managing Printers with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Setting up and sharing printers
• Changing printer drivers
• Reporting on printer security
• Adding and removing printer security
• Mapping clients to printers
• Enabling Branch Office Direct Printing
• Reporting on printer usage

• Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Servers with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Testing if a server is responding
• Using troubleshooting packs
• Using Best Practices Analyzers
• Searching event logs for specific events
• Forwarding event logs to a central log server

• Chapter 10: Managing Performance with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Reading performance counters
• Configuring Data Collector Sets
• Reporting on performance data
• Generating graphs
• Creating a server performance report

• Chapter 11: Inventorying Servers with PowerShell
• Introduction
• Inventorying hardware with PowerShell
• Inventorying the installed software
• Inventory system configuration
• Reporting on system security
• Creating a change report
• Exporting a configuration report to Word

• Chapter 12: Server Backup
• Introduction
• Configuring backup policies
• Initiating backups manually
• Restoring files
• Restoring Windows system state
• Restoring application data
• Creating a daily backup report

• Index