PowerShell 7 for IT Professionals

Foreword xiii

Introduction xxxiii

Chapter 1 Setting Up a PowerShell 7 Environment 1

What is New in PowerShell 7 2

Systems Used in This Book and Chapter 3

Installing PowerShell 7 5

Installing and Configuring VS Code 14

Using the PowerShell Gallery 21

Creating a Local PowerShellGet Repository 24

Creating a Code-Signing Environment 30

Summary 35

Chapter 2 PowerShell 7 Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 37

Examining PowerShell Modules 38

Introducing the Compatibility Solution 48

Things That Do Not Work with PowerShell 7 51

Summary 54

Chapter 3 Managing Active Directory 55

Systems Used in This Chapter 58

Establishing a Forest Root Domain 60

Installing a Replica DC 66

Installing a Child Domain 70

Configuring a Cross-Forest Trust 75

Managing AD Users, Computers, and OUs 86

Adding Users to AD via a CSV 96

Configuring Just Enough Administration (JEA) 100

Summary 109

Chapter 4 Managing Networking 111

Systems Used in This Chapter 112

Configuring IP Addressing 113

Testing Network Connectivity 117

Installing the DHCP Service 121

Configuring DHCP Scopes 124

Configuring DHCP Failover 128

Configuring the DNS Service 133

Configuring DNS Zones and Resource Records 138

Summary 144

Chapter 5 Managing Storage 145

Systems Used in This Chapter 146

Managing Disks and Volumes 147

Managing NTFS Permissions 154

Managing Storage Replica 163

Managing Filestore Quotas 175

Managing File Screening 183

Summary 190

Chapter 6 Managing Shared Data 191

Systems Used in This Chapter 193

Setting Up and Securing an SMB File Server 194

Creating and Securing SMB Shares 198

Creating and Using an iSCSI Target 207

Setting Up a Clustered Scale-Out File Server 218

Summary 229

Chapter 7 Managing Printing 231

Systems Used in This Chapter 232

Installing and Sharing Printers 233

Publishing a Printer in AD 238

Changing the Spool Folder 240

Printing a Test Page 245

Creating a Printer Pool 248

Summary 249

Chapter 8 Managing Hyper-V 251

Systems Used in This Chapter 253

Installing and Configuring Hyper-V 254

Creating a Hyper-V VM 257

Using PowerShell Direct 262

Configuring VM Networking 265

Configuring VM Hardware 271

Implementing Nested Virtualization 277

Using VM Checkpoints 282

Using VM Replication 291

Managing VM Movement 305

Measuring VM Resource Usage 311

Summary 314

Chapter 9 Using WMI with CIM Cmdlets 315

Exploring WMI Namespaces 320

Exploring WMI Classes 328

Getting Local and Remote Objects 330

Invoking WMI Methods 334

Managing WMI Events 339

Implementing Permanent WMI Event Handling 347

Summary 355

Chapter 10 Reporting 357

Systems Used in This Chapter 358

Reporting on AD Users and Computers 359

Managing Filesystem Reporting 365

Collecting Performance Information Using PLA 374

Reporting on PLA Performance Data 379

Creating a Performance Monitoring Graph 382

Creating a System Diagnostics Report 385

Reporting on Printer Usage 387

Creating a Hyper-V Status Report 390

Reviewing Event Logs 395

Summary 402

Index 403