Windows Server 2008 Admin with PowerShell Management Essentials
Part 1 of 3 in the Windows Server 2008 PowerShell series. This course is aimed at teaching Windows administrators a broad range of management tasks using Windows PowerShell 2.0.
What you'll learn
Part 1 of 3 in the Windows Server 2008 PowerShell series. This course is aimed at teaching Windows administrators a broad range of management tasks using Windows PowerShell 2.0. The focus is on general Windows Server 2008 R2 administration. These are topics that apply to all server roles. Emphasis is made on using Microsoft authored cmdlets in an interactive console session. Writing scripts and functions will be introduced to you, including 10 tasks that help every Windows Admin. This course takes a task-oriented approach, that is, how do I accomplish a typical management task using Windows PowerShell?
Table of contents
- Introduction 2m
- Change the Local Administrator Password 4m
- Restart or Shutdown a Server 5m
- Restart a Service 5m
- Terminate a Process 4m
- Create a Disk Utilization Report 9m
- Get 10 Most Recent Event Log Errors 5m
- Reset Access Control on a Folder 5m
- Get a Server's Uptime 7m
- Get Service Pack Information 6m
- Delete Old Files 7m
- What We Covered 2m
- Introduction 3m
- Documenting Roles and Features 1m
- Adding Roles and Features 1m
- Removing Roles and Features 1m
- Demo: Managing Roles and Features 11m
- Server Hardware Inventory and Documentation 4m
- Server Hardware Inventory and Documentation 2 1m
- Demo: Inventory and Documentation 14m
- Finding Service Packs and Hot Fixes 2m
- Demo: Service Packs and Hot Fixes 10m
- Shutting Down a Server 3m
- Restarting a Server 1m
- Demo: Shutdown and Reboot 5m
- What We Covered 2m
About the author
Jeffery Hicks is a veteran IT Pro with 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher, and consultant. He has been creating Pluralsight content for over 10 years. Jeff has written for numerous online sites and print publications, and speaks frequently at technology confer... more