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Windows PowerShell & Windows Automation
Don’t be the administrator who has to click a lousy checkbox or button to do every little administrative task in Windows. You must automate! Whether you’re looking to avoid mindless repetition, improve consistency, reduce errors, increase your personal “bandwidth,” or just be able to go home sooner each day, administrative automation is your answer. Join gurus Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks, co-authors of Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators and Windows PowerShell™: TFM™ for a knock-down, drag-out fight against manual administration.
The tools of the trade are Windows PowerShell, VBScript, command-line tools, batch files and more. That’s right, the “right tool for the right job,” whatever the job may be. Can’t make the entire track? No problem. Most of the sessions stand alone, so you can choose the tasks you need to complete.
Want to become the ultimate scripting guru in your organization, gain the respect of your boss and coworkers, and put something substantial on your resume? Then join us for the entire track, and you’ll be automating nearly everything in less than a week. Note that these sessions are not intended as hands-on unless specifically noted in the session description. There will not be power outlets available in the session room at any time. Please bring notepaper, or a spare battery if you intend to use your laptop to take notes. Flash photography is not permitted. Please keep hands, arms and legs inside the session room at all times.
Tuesday, October 14
TLT2Using Windows PowerShell
Don Jones
Tuesday, October 14 - 8:00 a.m.
Get a crash course in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft’s new interactive shell for Windows and server administration. No experience is necessary, and you’ll see real-world uses for PowerShell, including AD management, service management, WMI, and more. This is a fast introduction to PowerShell intended to get you up and running quickly, and is extremely demo-intensive so that you can see this great new technology in action.
Wednesday, October 15
TLW6Managing Active Directory Using Windows Powershell
Jeff Hicks
Wednesday, October 15 - 11:30 a.m.
If you have more than 10 user accounts and still use Active Directory Users and Computers to manage them, you're wasting your time. You can increase your management efficiency in administering AD with Windows PowerShell. MVP Jeffery Hicks will show you how to manage user accounts with ADSI and PowerShell, as well as third party extensions such as the Quest Active Roles Management Shell and the PowerShell Community Extensions. You'll take home fully functional tools for creating, deleting, modifying, importing, exporting user objects and more! Some PowerShell experience is preferable but not required.
TLW8Mr. Roboto's Automation Toolkit
Jeff Hicks
Wednesday, October 15 - 1:45 p.m.
Not just any run-of-the-mill conference session, Redmond Magazine's Mr. Roboto, Jeffery Hicks, will open up his bag of tricks and tools for managing your Windows network. Mr. Roboto will show how to keep on top of your environment with free or low-cost solutions for typical management tasks. You'll leave with plenty of tools you can begin using immediately to make your job easier and maybe even a little fun.
TLW12Understanding Scripting with Windows PowerShell
Jeff Hicks
Wednesday, October 15 - 3:15 p.m.
Take PowerShell further by learning how to use its simplified, 14-keyword scripting language to automate businesses processes and complex tasks. PowerShell author and MVP Don Jones introduces you to the entire PowerShell scripting language in just 75 minutes, and shows you practical examples of performing repetitive tasks, making decisions in a script, and modularizing your script code to work “the PowerShell way.” You’ll even learn when a script is not the right answer, so that you have everything you need to work faster and smarter.
TLW15Securing Windows PowerShell
Jeff Hicks
Wednesday, October 15 - 4:45 p.m.
Worried about PowerShell’s impact on your environment’s security? This double-team session with two Windows PowerShell authors and MVPs will tell you exactly how Windows PowerShell’s security systems work, reveal all the “back doors” that most security talks miss, and explain precisely how PowerShell can be used to compromise security – and what you can do to stop it.
Thursday, October 16
TLTH19Monitoring Performance, Events, & Alerts with Windows PowerShell (HOL)
Jeff Hicks
Thursday, October 16 - 4:45 p.m.
No doubt about it, if you have a Windows network, stuff happens. But how do you deal with it? There are plenty of big ticket solutions, but there's also PowerShell. With a little work you can use PowerShell to monitor your servers' performance and catch critical events or alerts. In this session, PowerShell MVP and author Jeffery Hicks will show you the ins and outs of Performance, Event and Alert Management with PowerShell. There will be plenty of practical demonstrations with code you can take home. Some PowerShell experience is preferable but not required.
