Powershell Scripting on Vista and XP in AD

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Powershell Scripting on Vista and XP in AD
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Scripts enable easy Management of many PCs

• Examples (on local and remote PCs)
• Show COM,ADSI,.NET, WMI techniques
• List drives
• List Software installed into Excel sheet
• Rename administrator account
• Change administrator password
• Add/remove account in administrators group
• Start/stop service
• Change registry key properties
• Schedule a task on remote PC

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Techniques

• COM to automate applications
• ADSI access AD objects
• .NET access .net classes, methods and
  properties
• WMI access wmi namespaces, classes,
  methods, properties and instances

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Powershell set up

• Install powershell version 1 - needs .net 2
• Version installed found in
  C\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework
• Community Technology Preview powershell v2
  available) needs .net 3 for some features
• .net 3 already on Vista
• Cannot run both versions of Powershell
• Install Quest ActiveRoles management shell snapin
• Install Quest PowerGUI(for script editor)
• Install PowerGUI snapins(for AD,network,exchange)
• Install WMI browser (powershell script)

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Target Computer Configuration

• Add powershell account to local administrators
• Enable WMI exception in firewall on Vista
• Enable remote management in GP on XP
• Start remote registry service

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Remote management Group Policyon XP

• Run MMC
• Add group policy object editor snapin
• Go Computer-Admin templates-Network-Network
  connections-windows firewall
• Go Domain profile
• Enable windows firewall Allow remote
  administration exception specify IPs allowed
  access
• Run gpupdate

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Demos

• Powershell run on Vista enterprise
• Target is Vista on Virtual PC in AD location
• Clients\departments\School of
  biological\TEST
• Target is XP on PC in same location in AD

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Sources of Info

• Scripting
• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs
  /msh.mspx
• PowerGUI documentation and examples
• http//powergui.org/documentation.jspa
• Powershell script repository
• http//www.myitforum.com/myITWiki/(X(1)S(uenx3ejgr
  w0b5y3jqmqsoong))/WPScripts.ashx
• http//www.myitforum.com/articles/40/section.asp?w
  2auyli628p1
• Webcasts
• http//channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid3360
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• WMI
• http//thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/search.aspx
  ?qwmiexplorerp1

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Sources of software

• Powershell
• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcente
  r/topics/msh/download.mspx
• Quest ActiveRoles Management shell
• http//www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles
  -server.aspx
• Quest PowerGUI
• http//powergui.org/downloads.jspa
• PowerGUI snapins
• http//powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID48
• WMI explorer
• http//thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/search.aspx
  ?qwmiexplorerp1