Today we have a guest post from Honorary Script Guy and Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Ashley McGlone, also known as GoateePFE.
This article reviews using PowerShell 4.0 to install Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), managing the AD PSDrive, and using the AD module for Windows PowerShell to administer AD users in a Windows Server 2012 R2 environment. I'm trying to install the active directory module of powershell on windows 10, through this group of commands provided by technet, but I still cannot succeed, I've tried many times and also running the powershell as administrator but the problem remains, it looks like it gets stuck inside a loop printing: '.'
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What is PowerShell Core?
The next release of PowerShell (6.0) was open-sourced last year and is currently in beta. However, it is PowerShell Core designed to run cross-platform on Windows, Mac, and Linux. PowerShell Core runs on top of .NET Core, a cross-platform, open-source version of the code base powering most of the Windows world. This version of PowerShell will be different than the Windows PowerShell edition you see built into Windows today.
My Mac Demo Rig
I have the coolest job, and I love my Microsoft Surface Pro 4. But now in my bag I also carry a MacBook Pro running VMs of Windows and Linux for one ultimate demo machine. Whatsapp application download for samsung wave 2 s8530 bada 1.2 firmware. Now I can demo PowerShell Core 6 and Visual Studio Code side-by-side on three different operating systems. I can even demo PowerShell remoting between all three operating systems.
How cool is that?!
The beta release of PowerShell Core 6 supports a significant list of Linux distributions. For my demos I chose Ubuntu Desktop so that I could do both PowerShell Core and Visual Studio Code. According to http://distrowatch.com this is one of the most popular Linux flavors.
Every customer who has seen this Microsoft guy demo PowerShell on three operating systems from a MacBook Pro has been impressed with the direction Microsoft is taking. Customers are excited about the cross-platform administrative opportunities now with PowerShell everywhere.
What do I need?
To get started with PowerShell Core you want to install and configure these three items on your operating system(s) of choice:
I was surprised how quickly I was up-and-running following the installation instructions. Each process involved relatively little tweaking for a beta experience.
If you are a Linux person you might be thinking, “OK. I already have OpenSSH installed.” Please read the OpenSSH link above for the step of editing the
sshd_config file for PowerShell remoting support.
Validate the install
From Mac or Linux simply open the terminal window and type
powershell . You should see the copyright banner (no year for beta) and get the PS prompt. Type $PSVersionTable to see your version.
Type
Get-Command to see what cmdlets are available in your session.
You might find it tricky to launch PowerShell Core 6 on a Windows VM that already has PowerShell natively installed. Here is one way to launch it:
Note the trick here is the . in front of the EXE, otherwise it will find the native EXE for Windows PowerShell.
Now for something new! Try this:
Get-Variable Is*
Notice that you now have built-in variables indicating the operating system version. These variables enable you to check the current OS and perform different behaviors from within a script.
Things to know
Now what can I do?For Windows people trying Mac or Linux
For Mac or Linux people trying PowerShell
The cmdlet
Get-Command will tell you all the commands available in your session. Then pass the command name to Get-Help just like man :
You will find that PowerShell help looks much like familiar man pages. You should first download the help file content on any new install like this:
Download Active Directory Powershell Module
Notice that you can blend native commands and PowerShell in a single, object-oriented pipeline.
Here are some of the many similarities between PowerShell and bash (with more here):
These command all have a wide assortment of parameters viewable with
Get-Help . Pirates of silicon valley movie in hindi free download. In PowerShell, parameter names are intuitive, verbose, and largely shared across commands for uniformity.
Here is an example of
tail in PowerShell:
Here is an example of
wc in PowerShell. Note that the results are slightly different, because the output of ps is different than Get-Process .
CTRL+R will let you search and execute command history in PowerShell on all operating systems. This functionality is just one feature of the PSReadline module automatically loaded for you.
PowerShell Remoting over SSH
PowerShell Core 6 includes new parameters for remoting over SSH. This is why you had to install and configure OpenSSH on each box.
This area required a bit of tweaking to get working for me, so pay close attention to the steps in the guide. Windows people will need to learn a bit of
vi or nano to edit the sshd_config file on Linux with the entries from the guide.
Here is what it looks like to browse a Windows machine from a Linux SSH remoting session:
Visual Studio Code![]()
After installing Visual Studio Code, you want to add the PowerShell extension. Open Code, click the square on the left bar, type
powershell , and install the extension. It will ask you to click to reload the window.
Active Directory Module For Windows Powershell
With the release of the PowerShell v1.x extension for Visual Studio Code it is now possible to have a cross-platform PowerShell editing experience very similar to the ISE on Windows boxes:
Install Active Directory Powershell Module
And it is also better than the ISE in many ways:
If you are editing a new file in Code you need to trigger the PowerShell experience in one of two ways:
These steps trigger the interactive output window and syntax completion. It is amazing to have full parity in the editing experience across Windows, Mac, and Linux.
If you would like to learn more about editing PowerShell with VS Code, check out David Wilson’spresentation to the AZPosh user group or his presentation from the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2017.
Desired State ConfigurationActive Directory Module For Powershell
This blog post is getting quite long, so I will not get into Desired State Configuration today. However, you can read Get started with Desired State Configuration (DSC) for Linux in the documentation site.
Truly Cross-Platform CodeInstall Active Directory Module For Windows Powershell Server Core
Depending on the task at hand we can run the exact same code on PowerShell Core on all three platforms. For example, on the operating system of your choice run this REST call and process the JSON response:
It is remarkable to see the same code run on all platforms. This paints a bright future for sysadmins everywhere.
Your Turn
I hope you have enjoyed this quick tour of the new cross-platform PowerShell scripting experience. Try it today on your favorite operating system. If you find things that do not work as you expected, then please submit an issue on GitHub.
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