PowerShell: Automation for Everyone
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Gavin Barron's presentation on PowerShell emphasizes the importance of automation for improving efficiency, reliability, and reducing repetitive tasks. He outlines five essential PowerShell commands, best practices for writing scripts, and error handling strategies. The presentation also highlights the use of configuration files and provides resources for further learning.
![PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 21
Use configuration files
$file =[xml] (Get-ChildItem $constantsFilePath)
$root = "setup-config"
$ConstantsNodeList = $file.$root.Constants
foreach($property in $ConstantsNodeList.Property) {
$key= $property.Key
$value=$property.Value
$webApp.Properties.Add($key,$value)
}
$webApp.Update()](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/powershell-140324012013-phpapp01/85/PowerShell-Automation-for-Everyone-21-320.jpg)
PowerShell: Automation for Everyone
- 1. Gavin Barron, Solution Architect March 22, 2014 ComCamp Auckland PowerShell: Automation for Everyone
- 2. The only five commands you need Rules for writing scripts Demos Intro Wrap up Our agenda
- 3. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 3 SharePoint Server MVP Developer Skier http://gavinb.net @gavinbarron gavin.barron@intergen.co.nz Gavin Barron Solution Architect Your presenter
- 4. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 4 Why Automate? Repeatability Reliability Save time? Eliminate boring manual tasks
- 5. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 5 Why PowerShell? Product specific cmdlets Able to run .NET code Hooks into WMI/COM Object pipeline Readable scripts
- 6. The only five commands you need
- 7. Your Awesome Presentation Title {Segoe UI 12 pt.} Get-Command
- 8. Your Awesome Presentation Title {Segoe UI 12 pt.} Get-Help
- 9. Your Awesome Presentation Title {Segoe UI 12 pt.} Get-Member
- 10. Your Awesome Presentation Title {Segoe UI 12 pt.} Where-Object
- 11. Your Awesome Presentation Title {Segoe UI 12 pt.} ForEach-Object
- 12. Demos
- 13. Your Awesome Presentation Title {Segoe UI 12 pt.} Find the command you need
- 14. Your Awesome Presentation Title {Segoe UI 12 pt.} Simple Pipeline Use
- 15. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 15 File renaming in .bat @echo off for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b *.txt') do call :dot "%%a" pause goto :EOF :dot set "var=%~n1" set "var=%var:.=_%" echo ren %1 "%var%%~x1"
- 17. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 17 Consider error cases What should you do when it goes pear shaped? Default behaviour is Ignore and Continue $ErrorActionPreference -ErrorAction try{} catch{}
- 18. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 18 Consider your outputs Write-Host Write-Output Write-Progress Add-Content Out-File
- 19. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 19 Have style! Use a coding convention Naming Casing Bracing Avoid aliases Be Consistent!
- 20. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 20 Leverage functions for re-use Small tasks Compose a script from functions Functions are highly reusable Cmdlet Binding Attribute Parameters Attribute Default Values
- 21. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 21 Use configuration files $file =[xml] (Get-ChildItem $constantsFilePath) $root = "setup-config" $ConstantsNodeList = $file.$root.Constants foreach($property in $ConstantsNodeList.Property) { $key= $property.Key $value=$property.Value $webApp.Properties.Add($key,$value) } $webApp.Update()
- 22. Your Awesome Presentation Title {Segoe UI 12 pt.} Script Examples
- 23. Wrap up
- 24. Your Awesome Presentation Title {Segoe UI 12 pt.} Start scripting, it’s easy!
- 25. PowerShell: Automation for Everyone | 25 Handy resources http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en- US/home?forum=ITCG http://ss64.com/ps/ http://ss64.com/ps/syntax.html
- 26. Any questions?
- 27. Email: gavin.barron@intergen.co.nz Blog: http://gavinb.net Twitter: @gavinbarron Thank you