Post on 17-Jul-2015
PowerShell for the Hybrid Admin:Managing Your On-Prem, O365, and Azure Worlds
Jason Himmelstein, MVP
Senior Technical Director, SharePoint
@sharepointlhorn
• Senior Technical Director, SharePoint
• SharePoint Server MVP
• Microsoft vTSP
• Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com
• Twitter: @sharepointlhorn
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein
• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jasonhimmelstein
• Email: jase@sharepointlonghorn.com
• Author of Developing Business Intelligence Apps for
SharePoint– http://bit.ly/SharePointBI
• Changes in the Admin World
• PowerShell Background
• Leveraging PowerShell Profiles
• Repeatable processes through PowerShell
– Azure
– Office 365
– SharePoint Online
Agenda
Changes in the
Admin World
Evolution of the Admin
Changes in the Admin World
• It’s not a rack, stack, & admin boxes world anymore
• “click, click, finish” days are in our past
• Hybrid is the new black
What is hybrid?
Is everything really going to the cloud?
What should go where?
PowerShell
Background
What is it?
• It isn't:– Fire and forget– A packaged executable – Developer-centric– Too hard for an ITPro
• It is:– Command line environment– Microsoft technology holistic– A swiss army knife with a chain saw– The future of ITPro's world
What is it?
• Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-
line shell and associated scripting language built on .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full
access to COM and WMI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local
and remote Windows systems.
– Definition from Wikipedia
• What is it really
– PowerShell is an object-based, not text-based, command-line interface for Microsoft
Technologies
• What does that mean:
– Results in PowerShell can be acted upon, not just read from
The Why
• Why did Microsoft create PowerShell & move more to a PowerShell world
than a GUI world?
• What is it used for:
– Deployment
– Configuration
– Management
– Administration
– Development
Leveraging
PowerShell Profiles
• Configured per user
• Used to repeatedly set environmental variables
– File path
– Pre-load snapins & modules
– Pre-load scripts to be used downstream
PowerShell Profiles
Demo Time!
• PowerShell Profiles
• Dot sourcing
• New-psprofiles.ps1
• Azure VM interactions
• Office 365 management
• Script pre-loads
• Manage SharePoint Online
– Cmdlets
– CSOM
What did we just do?
Script Dependencies
Path forward
• http://www.github.com/jasonhimmelstein/powershell
• ITUnity
– http://www.itunity.com
• Chris O’Brien “Using CSOM in PowerShell scripts with Office 365”
– http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2013/12/Using-CSOM-in-
PowerShell-scripts-with-Office365.html
• http://dev.office.com/
• https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP
• https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP/tree/master/Samples
•
Resources
• Senior Technical Director, SharePoint
• SharePoint Server MVP
• Microsoft vTSP
• Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com
• Twitter: @sharepointlhorn
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein
• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jasonhimmelstein
• Email: jase@sharepointlonghorn.com
• Author of Developing Business Intelligence Apps for
SharePoint– http://bit.ly/SharePointBI