Overview
- Shows you how to use PowerShell to quickly pinpoint, diagnose, and solve problems with your Windows Server environment
- Contains a range of examples showing you how to gather information from a variety of sources
- Demonstrates how to confirm which applications and services are installed, whether they are running, and how to stop or start them as needed
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This book shows you how to use PowerShell to quickly pinpoint, diagnose, and solve problems with your Windows Server environment, reducing the need for external tools, and ensuring you stay up-to-date with PowerShell as it quickly becomes one of the most useful tools in an administrator’s toolkit.
Authors Derek Schauland and Donald Jacobs take you through a range of examples, showing you how to gather information from different computer sources. Whether you are logged into the server locally or just wanting to check the status of a server from your local computer, the right PowerShell cmdlets can give you a lot of information quickly, and allow you to troubleshoot your servers from the command line with little interaction with the server's desktop.
In this book, you'll learn how PowerShell can help you:
- Understand PowerShell versus the GUI
- Gather information from Windows event logs
- Gather information from your server,including memory, hardware configurations, and disk space available
- Find out what applications are installed on a server
- Find out which Windows updates have been installed on your computer
- Check the processes running on your computer and gather information about them, or start and stop them from the command line
- Quickly check if services are running, and stop or start them as needed
Who This Book Is For
Windows Administrators, IT Professionals and support personnel needing ways to quickly find and troubleshoot issues in their environment using the included tools. Those entering IT or wishing to develop their PowerShell skil
ls will also benefit from this book.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Donald Jacobs began his IT career back when Windows NT was the biggest and best new technology in the field. Since that time, he has earned a multitude of Microsoft certifications, including MCSE Server Infrastructure 2012, MCSA Office 365, MCITP Enterprise Administrator 2008, and MCTS for Windows 7. He has taught Microsoft’s Certified PowerShell and Windows Server courses as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Currently, Donald supports clients and customers with Microsoft products, particularly PowerShell, Azure, Office 365, Active Directory, Exchange, and Windows Server. In his downtime, he enjoys spending time with his family, watching hockey, and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Troubleshooting Windows Server with PowerShell
Authors: Derek Schauland, Donald Jacobs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1851-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Derek Schauland and Donald Jacobs 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-1850-1Published: 30 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-1851-8Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 121
Number of Illustrations: 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Operating Systems, Information Storage and Retrieval