This document discusses how PowerShell can be used to manage hybrid environments that include on-premises, Office 365, and Azure resources. It provides an overview of PowerShell and how administrators can leverage PowerShell profiles to set up repeatable processes. The presenter demonstrates using PowerShell to interact with Azure VMs, manage Office 365, and work with SharePoint Online through cmdlets and CSOM. Resources for learning more about PowerShell and hybrid administration are also provided.

1. PowerShell for the Hybrid Admin:
Managing Your On-Prem, O365, and Azure Worlds
Jason Himmelstein, MVP
Senior Technical Director, SharePoint
@sharepointlhorn

2. • 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

3. • Changes in the Admin World
• PowerShell Background
• Leveraging PowerShell Profiles
• Repeatable processes through PowerShell
– Azure
– Office 365
– SharePoint Online
Agenda

4. Changes in the
Admin World

5. Evolution of the Admin

6. 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

7. What is hybrid?

8. Is everything really going to the cloud?

9. What should go where?

10. PowerShell
Background

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Leveraging
PowerShell Profiles

15. • Configured per user
• Used to repeatedly set environmental variables
– File path
– Pre-load snapins & modules
– Pre-load scripts to be used downstream
PowerShell Profiles

16. Demo Time!

17. • 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?

18. Script Dependencies

19. Path forward

20. • 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

21. • 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