User Powershell for Task Automation
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This document introduces PowerShell and provides ideas for automating manual tasks with scripts. It discusses the history and benefits of PowerShell, including that it is easy to learn, use, deploy, find resources and help for. Common manual tasks that could be automated are suggested such as pinging servers, backups, generating reports, and automating Active Directory tasks. Script examples are provided for pinging multiple servers with and without trace route and sending output via email. The document encourages automating tasks to save time and enhance scripting skills.
User Powershell for Task Automation
- 1. AUTOMATE YOUR MANUAL TASKS WITH POWERSHELL Aman Dhally 20th April 2013
- 2. About Me
- 3. About me • 13+ yrs. Of experience in I.T. • Mainly works on Microsoft windows platform. • Founder of “New Delhi Powershell User Group”. • Writing articles on www.amandhally.net • Love to write script and upload them at TechNet.
- 6. History • Designed by “Jeffrey Snover, Bruce Payette and James Truher ” • Started as project “Monad” in 2002 , in April 2005 Microsoft renamed it as “Windows PowerShell”. • For windows XP, Server 2003 available as optional feature. • Now Integrated in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 • Version 1.0 released in 2006 • Version 2.0 released in 2009 • Version 3.0 (CTP 2 ) in Dec 2011 • Version 3.0 is available in Windows8 and Server 8
- 7. WHY TO USE POWERSHELL? • It is “Easy”. • Easy to “learn” • Easy to “Use”. • Easy to “Deploy”. • Easy to “Find Resources” • Easy to “Find Help”
- 9. What are manual tasks? • Pinging multiple servers. • Backups. • Want to write an GUI to ease of some manual process? • Automate Active Directory related stuff. • Generate Reports. • Lots more…..
- 10. WHY TO AUTOMATE MANUAL TASKS?
- 11. Why to automate manual tasks? • Time saving. • For lazy admins (like me). • To get some free time to learn new things. • Help in enhancing scripting skills. • Be a “Geek” not a… :D • Try to create you own application.
- 12. SCRIPTS.
- 13. Scripts: Ping Multiple Server
- 14. Scripts: Ping Multiple Server with trace route
- 15. Scripts: Ping Multiple Server and sending output via email.
- 16. DEMO/IDEAS?
- 17. QUESTIONS?
- 18. Thanks.
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