Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Foreword
4. Introduction
5. 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
   4. Installing and Configuring VS Code
   5. Using the PowerShell Gallery
   6. Creating a Local PowerShellGet Repository
   7. Creating a Code‐Signing Environment
   8. Summary
6. Chapter 2: PowerShell 7 Compatibility with Windows PowerShell
   1. Examining PowerShell Modules
   2. Introducing the Compatibility Solution
   3. Things That Do Not Work with PowerShell 7
   4. Summary
7. Chapter 3: Managing Active Directory
   1. Systems Used in This Chapter
   2. Establishing a Forest Root Domain
   3. Installing a Replica DC
   4. Installing a Child Domain
   5. Configuring a Cross‐Forest Trust
   6. Managing AD Users, Computers, and OUs
   7. Adding Users to AD via a CSV
   8. Configuring Just Enough Administration (JEA)
   9. Summary
8. Chapter 4: Managing Networking
   1. Systems Used in This Chapter
   2. Configuring IP Addressing
   3. Testing Network Connectivity
   4. Installing the DHCP Service
   5. Configuring DHCP Scopes
   6. Configuring DHCP Failover
   7. Configuring the DNS Service
   8. Configuring DNS Zones and Resource Records
   9. Summary
9. Chapter 5: Managing Storage
   1. Systems Used in This Chapter
   2. Managing Disks and Volumes
   3. Managing NTFS Permissions
   4. Managing Storage Replica
   5. Managing Filestore Quotas
   6. Managing File Screening
   7. Summary
10. Chapter 6: Managing Shared Data
    1. Systems Used in This Chapter
    2. Setting Up and Securing an SMB File Server
    3. Creating and Securing SMB Shares
    4. Creating and Using an iSCSI Target
    5. Setting Up a Clustered Scale‐Out File Server
    6. Summary
11. Chapter 7: Managing Printing
    1. Systems Used in This Chapter
    2. Installing and Sharing Printers
    3. Publishing a Printer in AD
    4. Changing the Spool Folder
    5. Printing a Test Page
    6. Creating a Printer Pool
    7. Summary
12. Chapter 8: Managing Hyper‐V
    1. Systems Used in This Chapter
    2. Installing and Configuring Hyper‐V
    3. Creating a Hyper‐V VM
    4. Using PowerShell Direct
    5. Configuring VM Networking
    6. Configuring VM Hardware
    7. Implementing Nested Virtualization
    8. Using VM Checkpoints
    9. Using VM Replication
    10. Managing VM Movement
    11. Measuring VM Resource Usage
    12. Summary
13. Chapter 9: Using WMI with CIM Cmdlets
    1. Exploring WMI Namespaces
    2. Exploring WMI Classes
    3. Getting Local and Remote Objects
    4. Invoking WMI Methods
    5. Managing WMI Events
    6. Implementing Permanent WMI Event Handling
    7. Summary
14. Chapter 10: Reporting
    1. Systems Used in This Chapter
    2. Reporting on AD Users and Computers
    3. Managing Filesystem Reporting
    4. Collecting Performance Information Using PLA
    5. Reporting on PLA Performance Data
    6. Creating a Performance Monitoring Graph
    7. Creating a System Diagnostics Report
    8. Reporting on Printer Usage
    9. Creating a Hyper‐V Status Report
    10. Reviewing Event Logs
    11. Summary
15. Index
16. Copyright
17. Dedication
18. About the Author
19. About the Technical Editor
20. Acknowledgments
21. End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

1. Chapter 1
   1. Figure 1.1: Systems used in this chapter
   2. Figure 1.2: Viewing help information
   3. Figure 1.3: Examining the installation folder
   4. Figure 1.4: Viewing module paths
   5. Figure 1.5: Viewing profile file locations
   6. Figure 1.6: Viewing help information
   7. Figure 1.7: Viewing PowerShell 7 module paths
   8. Figure 1.8: Viewing PowerShell profile file locations
   9. Figure 1.9: Installing VS Code on DC1
   10. Figure 1.10: Updated taskbar
   11. Figure 1.11: Count of modules available in the PowerShell Gallery
   12. Figure 1.12: Count of available modules that support .NET core
   13. Figure 1.13: NTFS‐related modules
   14. Figure 1.14: Commands in the NTFSSecurity module
   15. Figure 1.15: Testing the Hello World module
   16. Figure 1.16: Viewing configured repositories
   17. Figure 1.17: Viewing the repository folder
   18. Figure 1.18: Viewing the RKRepo modules
   19. Figure 1.19: Viewing the certificate
   20. Figure 1.20: Attempting to run the script
   21. Figure 1.21: Signing a PowerShell script
   22. Figure 1.22: Signing a PowerShell script with a trusted certificate
   23. Figure 1.23: Running a signed PowerShell script
   24. Figure 1.24: Testing a script's digital signature
2. Chapter 2
   1. Figure 2.1: System used in this chapter
   2. Figure 2.2: Creating a new module
   3. Figure 2.3: Importing the MyModule1 module
   4. Figure 2.4: Creating and using a manifest
   5. Figure 2.5: Viewing files in MyModule1
   6. Figure 2.6: Using MyModule2
   7. Figure 2.7: Viewing MyModule2
   8. Figure 2.8: Using module autoload
   9. Figure 2.9: Viewing the module analysis cache
   10. Figure 2.10: Loading the ServerManager module
   11. Figure 2.11: Viewing the module deny list
3. Chapter 3
   1. Figure 3.1: Forests, domains, and hosts used in this chapter
   2. Figure 3.2: Installing AD DS Domain Services
   3. Figure 3.3: Promoting DC1
   4. Figure 3.4: Viewing the DSE
   5. Figure 3.5: Viewing the Reskit.Org forest
   6. Figure 3.6: Viewing the Reskit.Org domain
   7. Figure 3.7: Viewing DNS settings and configuration
   8. Figure 3.8: Testing connectivity with DC1
   9. Figure 3.9: Installing Windows features
   10. Figure 3.10: Viewing DCs in the Reskit.Org domain
   11. Figure 3.11: Viewing DNS settings and configuration
   12. Figure 3.12: Verifying connectivity to DC1
   13. Figure 3.13: Adding features to UKDC1
   14. Figure 3.14: Viewing the Reskit forest
   15. Figure 3.15: Viewing the child domain information
   16. Figure 3.16: Installing the AD DS feature
   17. Figure 3.17: Testing network connectivity
   18. Figure 3.18: Viewing details of the Kapoho.Com forest
   19. Figure 3.19: Adding a DNS conditional forwarder
   20. Figure 3.20: Testing conditional DNS forwarding
   21. Figure 3.21: Setting up a conditional forwarder on DC1
   22. Figure 3.22: Viewing the Reskit.Org forest
   23. Figure 3.23: Viewing the Kahopo.Com forest
   24. Figure 3.24: Updating the ACL and viewing its details
   25. Figure 3.25: Viewing users in Reskit.Org
   26. Figure 3.26: Viewing updated user details
   27. Figure 3.27: Viewing updated user details
   28. Figure 3.28: Viewing group membership
   29. Figure 3.29: Viewing computers in the AD
   30. Figure 3.30: Viewing users to be added to AD
   31. Figure 3.31: Creating new users
   32. Figure 3.32: Viewing all users
   33. Figure 3.33: Testing the session configuration file
   34. Figure 3.34: Registering the session configuration file
   35. Figure 3.35: Determining session capabilities
   36. Figure 3.36: Checking on commands in the JEA session
   37. Figure 3.37: Invoking a JEA‐defined function
   38. Figure 3.38: Counting DNS server commands available
   39. Figure 3.39: Viewing the JEA Transcripts folder
   40. Figure 3.40: Viewing a JEA transcript
4. Chapter 4
   1. Figure 4.1: Systems used in this chapter
   2. Figure 4.2: IP address details returned after checking the current state
   3. Figure 4.3: Verifying the NIC IP address
   4. Figure 4.4: Verifying the new IP configuration
   5. Figure 4.5: Testing the TCP/IP stack
   6. Figure 4.6: Verifying connectivity to DC1
   7. Figure 4.7: Verifying SMB/LDAP connectivity to DC1
   8. Figure 4.8: Verifying access to an Internet server
   9. Figure 4.9: Installing the DHCP service
   10. Figure 4.10: Checking the DHCP service
   11. Figure 4.11: Reviewing IPv4 scopes
   12. Figure 4.12: Checking DHCP operation
   13. Figure 4.13: Installing the DHCP feature
   14. Figure 4.14: Viewing authorized DHCP servers
   15. Figure 4.15: Verbose output when creating DHCP failover
   16. Figure 4.16: Viewing active DHCP leases
   17. Figure 4.17: Viewing DHCP server statistics
   18. Figure 4.18: Installing the DNS feature
   19. Figure 4.19: Examining key DNS configuration settings
   20. Figure 4.20: Starting NSLookup
   21. Figure 4.21: Checking on recently created DNS zones
   22. Figure 4.22: Checking on DNS RRs
   23. Figure 4.23: Checking DNS name resolution on DC1
5. Chapter 5
   1. Figure 5.1: Systems used in this chapter
   2. Figure 5.2: Examining physical disks in SRV1
   3. Figure 5.3: Examining the initialized disks in SRV1
   4. Figure 5.4: Creating an F: volume
   5. Figure 5.5: Creating a G: volume
   6. Figure 5.6: Creating an H: volume
   7. Figure 5.7: Viewing created volumes
   8. Figure 5.8: Formatting volumes G: and H:
   9. Figure 5.9: Viewing partitions on SRV1
   10. Figure 5.10: Viewing partitions on SRV1
   11. Figure 5.11: Viewing cmdlets in the NTFSSecurity module
   12. Figure 5.12: Creating a folder and file
   13. Figure 5.13: Viewing the ACL of the folder
   14. Figure 5.14: Viewing the ACL of the file
   15. Figure 5.15: Checking the sales group
   16. Figure 5.16: Viewing the ACL of the folder
   17. Figure 5.17: Viewing the ACL of the file
   18. Figure 5.18: Viewing the F: drive
   19. Figure 5.19: Viewing the content of SRV2
   20. Figure 5.20: The result of adding SR to SRV1
   21. Figure 5.21: Testing the SR configuration
   22. Figure 5.22: Viewing topology test results
   23. Figure 5.23: Creating an SR partnership
   24. Figure 5.24: Viewing the SR partnership
   25. Figure 5.25: Examining volumes on SRV2
   26. Figure 5.26: Examining updated RG status
   27. Figure 5.27: Examining volumes on SRV2
   28. Figure 5.28: Installing FSRM
   29. Figure 5.29: Viewing the test email
   30. Figure 5.30: Viewing quota templates
   31. Figure 5.31: Building a quota
   32. Figure 5.32: Examining the FSRM email
   33. Figure 5.33: Testing the quota limit
   34. Figure 5.34: Viewing the total size of the folder contents
   35. Figure 5.35: Examining the existing file groups
   36. Figure 5.36: Examining existing templates
   37. Figure 5.37: Creating a file screen
   38. Figure 5.38: Testing a file screen
   39. Figure 5.39: Viewing notification limits
   40. Figure 5.40: Testing the active file screen
   41. Figure 5.41: Viewing the screening email
6. Chapter 6
   1. Figure 6.1: Systems used in this chapter
   2. Figure 6.2: Installing file server features
   3. Figure 6.3: Viewing SMB server settings
   4. Figure 6.4: Viewing the reconfigured SMB server settings
   5. Figure 6.5: Viewing shares on FS1
   6. Figure 6.6: Creating an SMB share
   7. Figure 6.7: Viewing share access
   8. Figure 6.8: Reviewing NTFS permissions
   9. Figure 6.9: Viewing folder ACL
   10. Figure 6.10: Installing the iSCSI target feature
   11. Figure 6.11: Viewing iSCSI target server settings
   12. Figure 6.12: Creating an iSCSI virtual disk
   13. Figure 6.13: Creating an iSCSI target
   14. Figure 6.14: Creating the iSCSI target portal
   15. Figure 6.15: Viewing the SalesTarget
   16. Figure 6.16: Connecting to the SalesTarget
   17. Figure 6.17: Viewing the disk
   18. Figure 6.18: Creating an S: drive
   19. Figure 6.19: Using the iSCSI S: drive
   20. Figure 6.20: Setting up the iSCSI portal
   21. Figure 6.21: Installing clustering on FS1 and FS2
   22. Figure 6.22: Viewing cluster test results
   23. Figure 6.23: Adding an iSCSI disk to the cluster
   24. Figure 6.24: Adding the new disk to the CSV
   25. Figure 6.25: Adding a continuously available share
   26. Figure 6.26: Viewing shares
7. Chapter 7
   1. Figure 7.1: Systems used in this chapter
   2. Figure 7.2: Installing the Print Server feature
   3. Figure 7.3: Reviewing the setup of the new printer
   4. Figure 7.4: Checking on the SalesPrinter1 printer
   5. Figure 7.5: Reviewing the setup of the new printer
   6. Figure 7.6: Reviewing existing spool folder
   7. Figure 7.7: Reviewing the spool folder
   8. Figure 7.8: Reviewing the spool folder after the change
   9. Figure 7.9: Displaying the number of printers
   10. Figure 7.10: Displaying the printer's details
   11. Figure 7.11: Printing a test page
   12. Figure 7.12: Viewing printer pool details
8. Chapter 8
   1. Figure 8.1: Systems used in this chapter
   2. Figure 8.2: Installing Hyper‐V on HV1
   3. Figure 8.3: Reviewing VM host settings
   4. Figure 8.4: Mounting the ISO disk image
   5. Figure 8.5: Viewing the contents of install.wim
   6. Figure 8.6: Creating a new VM
   7. Figure 8.7: Viewing newly created VM details
   8. Figure 8.8: Displaying VM details
   9. Figure 8.9: Getting the VM host name
   10. Figure 8.10: Displaying VM details using VM ID
   11. Figure 8.11: Viewing NIC details
   12. Figure 8.12: Viewing the NIC configuration
   13. Figure 8.13: Creating a virtual switch
   14. Figure 8.14: Viewing the virtual NIC configuration
   15. Figure 8.15: Viewing the NIC IP address
   16. Figure 8.16: Joining the domain
   17. Figure 8.17: Obtaining the host name
   18. Figure 8.18: Shutting down a VM
   19. Figure 8.19: Updating VM BIOS
   20. Figure 8.20: Changing the VM processor count
   21. Figure 8.21: Changing the VM memory allocation
   22. Figure 8.22: Adding an SCSI controller
   23. Figure 8.23: Creating a new virtual disk
   24. Figure 8.24: Viewing SCSI disks
   25. Figure 8.25: Configuring the VM processor
   26. Figure 8.26: Restarting HVDirect
   27. Figure 8.27: Installing Hyper‐V in HVDirect
   28. Figure 8.28: Restarting HVDirect
   29. Figure 8.29: Examining Hyper‐V within HVDirect
   30. Figure 8.30: Examining the HVDirect C: drive
   31. Figure 8.31: Examining the checkpoint files
   32. Figure 8.32: Creating content on HVDirect
   33. Figure 8.33: Viewing Hyper‐V checkpoints
   34. Figure 8.34: Viewing checkpoint files
   35. Figure 8.35: Viewing checkpoint files after the second checkpoint
   36. Figure 8.36: Viewing files in the VM
   37. Figure 8.37: Viewing files in the VM after rolling forward
   38. Figure 8.38: Viewing checkpoints for HVDirect
   39. Figure 8.39: Viewing virtual hard disks
   40. Figure 8.40: Viewing replication status
   41. Figure 8.41: Viewing VM status
   42. Figure 8.42: Examining the replication status
   43. Figure 8.43: Viewing the progress of replication
   44. Figure 8.44: Viewing the VMs running on HV2
   45. Figure 8.45: Getting the VM details on the replica source
   46. Figure 8.46: Testing the replica VM
   47. Figure 8.47: Viewing VM status
   48. Figure 8.48: Checking VM status after failover
   49. Figure 8.49: Verifying the VM networking configuration
   50. Figure 8.50: Viewing HVDirect VM
   51. Figure 8.51: Viewing the VM configuration path
   52. Figure 8.52: Getting the VM hard drive locations for HVDirect
   53. Figure 8.53: Viewing the VM configuration path
   54. Figure 8.54: Displaying migration time
   55. Figure 8.55: Viewing the VMs on HV2
   56. Figure 8.56: Examining VM details
   57. Figure 8.57: Examining VM details
   58. Figure 8.58: Measuring VM resource usage
   59. Figure 8.59: Remeasuring VM resource usage after computation
9. Chapter 9
   1. Figure 9.1: WMI architecture
   2. Figure 9.2: Viewing classes in root namespace
   3. Figure 9.3: Viewing namespaces in root
   4. Figure 9.4: Getting classes in the root\CIMV2 namespace
   5. Figure 9.5: Getting all namespaces
   6. Figure 9.6: Viewing some namespaces
   7. Figure 9.7: Counting classes
   8. Figure 9.8: Viewing namespaces on SRV2
   9. Figure 9.9: Counting namespaces and classes on SRV2
   10. Figure 9.10: Counting namespaces and classes on DC2
   11. Figure 9.11: Viewing the Win32_Share WMI class
   12. Figure 9.12: Counting namespaces and classes on DC1
   13. Figure 9.13: Viewing the methods supported by the Win32_Share class
   14. Figure 9.14: Viewing class details with a specified namespace
   15. Figure 9.15: Viewing details of the Win32_Share class
   16. Figure 9.16: Viewing details of a class in a non‐default namespace
   17. Figure 9.17: Using the ‐Filter parameter
   18. Figure 9.18: Using a WQL query
   19. Figure 9.19: Getting remote WMI objects
   20. Figure 9.20: Viewing methods of the Win32_Share class
   21. Figure 9.21: Viewing methods of the Win32_Share class
   22. Figure 9.22: Invoking a WMI method
   23. Figure 9.23: Viewing the SMB share
   24. Figure 9.24: Viewing an SMB share
   25. Figure 9.25: Removing an SMB share
   26. Figure 9.26: Viewing WMI event details
   27. Figure 9.27: Creating an extrinsic event subscription
   28. Figure 9.28: Updating a registry value
   29. Figure 9.29: Viewing event details
   30. Figure 9.30: Creating a temporary WMI event subscription
   31. Figure 9.31: Adding a user to an AD group
   32. Figure 9.32: Viewing event details
   33. Figure 9.33: Viewing event details
   34. Figure 9.34: Viewing event details
10. Chapter 10
    1. Figure 10.1: Systems used in this chapter
    2. Figure 10.2: AD user and computer report
    3. Figure 10.3: Creating a new FSRM report
    4. Figure 10.4: Viewing the FSRM report
    5. Figure 10.5: Viewing the FSRM report output files
    6. Figure 10.6: Viewing the FSRM report output files
    7. Figure 10.7: Using FSRM XML output
    8. Figure 10.8: Viewing a scheduled task
    9. Figure 10.9: Running the report interactively
    10. Figure 10.10: Viewing the report
    11. Figure 10.11: Viewing data collector sets with perfmon.exe
    12. Figure 10.12: Counting available performance counters
    13. Figure 10.13: Viewing CPU Information
    14. Figure 10.14: Viewing the CPU usage chart
    15. Figure 10.15: Viewing the System Diagnostics Report
    16. Figure 10.16: Viewing PDF output files
    17. Figure 10.17: Viewing printer usage
    18. Figure 10.18: Viewing the VM report
    19. Figure 10.19: Viewing the VM report on another Hyper‐V host
    20. Figure 10.20: Viewing a count of event logs
    21. Figure 10.21: Viewing the total number of event logs
    22. Figure 10.22: Viewing the total numbers of System, Application, and Security ...
    23. Figure 10.23: Viewing the Security log events
    24. Figure 10.24: Getting logon events
    25. Figure 10.25: Getting logon event types
    26. Figure 10.26: Getting RDP logons

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