Thomas Lee 
PowerShell 7 for IT Professionals 

Take advantage of everything Microsoft’s new Power Shell 7 has to offer

Power Shell 7 for IT Pros is your guide to using Power Shell 7, the open source, cross-platform version of Windows Power Shell. Windows IT professionals can begin setting up automation in Power Shell 7, which features many improvements over the early version of Power Shell Core and Windows Power Shell. Power Shell 7 users can enjoy the high level of compatibility with the Windows Power Shell modules they rely on today. This book shows IT professionals–especially Windows administrators and developers–how to use Power Shell7 to engage in their most important tasks, such as managing networking, using AD/DNS/DHCP, leveraging Azure, and more.

To make it easy to learn everything Power Shell 7 has to offer, this book includes robust examples, each containing sample code so readers can follow along. Scripts are based on Power Shell 7 running on Windows 10 19H1 or later and Windows Server 2019.

* Learn to navigate the Power Shell 7 administrative environment

* Use Power Shell 7 to automate networking, Active Directory, Windows storage, shared data, and more

* Run Windows Update, IIS, Hyper-V, and WMI and CIM cmdlets within Power Shell 7

* Understand how to handle reporting in the new Power Shell 7 environment

Power Shell 7 for IT Pros provides exclusive coverage of using Power Shell with both cloud-based systems and virtualized environments (Hyper V and Azure). Written by Power Shell veteran Thomas Lee, this is the only book you’ll need to get started with Power Shell 7.

Table of Content

Foreword xiii

Introduction xxxiii

Chapter 1 Setting Up a Power Shell 7 Environment 1

What is New in Power Shell 7 2

Systems Used in This Book and Chapter 3

Installing Power Shell 7 5

Installing and Configuring VS Code 14

Using the Power Shell Gallery 21

Creating a Local Power Shell Get Repository 24

Creating a Code-Signing Environment 30

Summary 35

Chapter 2 Power Shell 7 Compatibility with Windows Power Shell 37

Examining Power Shell Modules 38

Introducing the Compatibility Solution 48

Things That Do Not Work with Power Shell 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 i SCSI 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 Power Shell 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

About the author

THOMAS LEE is an IT consultant/trainer/writer who holds numerous Microsoft certifications. He has been awarded Microsoft’s MVP award 17 times. He has written numerous books on TCP/IP and Power Shell. Thomas currently helps clients to deliver training and build training courses. He continues to give back to the community as Group Administrator for the Power Shell forum on Spiceworks, where he is also a Site Moderator.