PowerShell Fast Track

Create complex scripts in PowerShell and learn how to connect them to cloud services like Azure and Azure AD. This book will help you learn PowerShell by providing small “cheat” snippets that you can combine to write efficient and effective scripts.

PowerShell Fast Track starts with the basics of PowerShell before moving on to discuss functions like date and logs, along with concepts such as inputs for your scripts. Author Vikas Sukhija then walks you through interactive input and Snapins modules, where you will learn GUI button prompts and how to import sessions. He’ll then show you how to report errors through email and log errors to a text file. Reporting CSV (Comma Separate Value) is discussed next, followed by a demonstration of miscellaneous functions, including how to connect your PowerShell scripts with Azure, SharePoint, Teams and other services. As you progress further, you’ll see how PowerShell provides powerful features for automation that can be leveraged for managing your Teams workload. Finally, using practical examples, you will learn how to implement and create scripts for day-to-day usage.

After reading this book, you will be able to hit the ground running and use PowerShell’s powerful features in your own work.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN:

* Utilize code Snippets to perform practical tasks
* Combine the code to create more complex scripts.
* Logging and reporting
* Connect to various products such as Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and AzureAD

WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR:

System administrators

Vikas Sukhija has over a decade of IT infrastructure experience with expertise in Messaging, Collaboration & IT automations utilizing PowerShell, PowerApps , Power Automate and other tools. He is currently working as a Global Director at Golden Five Consulting in Canada. He is also a Blogger, Architect, Microsoft MVP and is known by the name TechWizard. As an experienced professional he is assisting small to large enterprises in architecting, implementing, and automating Microsoft 365 and Azure. CHAPTER 1. POWERSHELL BASICS

Variables & Printing If Else/ switch Conditional / Logical Operators Loops For –Loop While –Loop Functions

CHAPTER 2. DATE & LOGS

Define Logs

First day & Last day of Month

Midnight Create Folders based on Date Recycle Logs Progress bar

CHAPTER 3. INPUT TO YOUR SCRIPTS

Import CSV Import from text file Input from Array

CHAPTER 4. INTERACTIVE INPUT

Read-host Parameters GUI Button Prompt

CHAPTER 5. ADDING SNAP INS/ MODULES

PowerShell Snapins Modules Import Session Example:

CHAPTER 6. SENDING EMAIL

CHAPTER 7. ERROR REPORTING

Reporting Error thru Email

Logging Everything including Error Logging error to Text file

CHAPTER 8. REPORTING CSV

Report HTML Reporting

CHAPTER 9. MISCELLANEOUS KEYWORDS

Split Replace

Select-String

Compare-Object

CHAPTER 10. PRODUCT EXAMPLES (DAILY USE)

Microsoft Exchange Clean Database so that mailboxes appear in disconnected state

Find Disconnected Mailboxes Clustered Mailbox Status (2007)

Extract Message accept from Active Sync Stats Message Tracking Search mailbox / Delete Messages Exchange Quota Report Set Quota Active Directory Export Group members Set values for Ad attributes Export Active Directory attributes Add members to the group from text file Remove members to the group from text file Office 365 Exchange Online Mailbox Report Exchange Online Message Tracking Searching Unified Log

11. Appendix