#Windows 2011 sbs windows#
The other edition, the $545 Windows SBS 2011 Essentials package, has a 25-user limit. That's because Microsoft considers the SBS 2011 Premium Add-on (at $1,604) to be just that: an add-on component (to the $1,096 Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard platform) and not a separate edition. However, most IT professionals will view the SBS 2011 lineup as including three versions. 2: Two editions existĪccording to Microsoft, two SBS 2011 editions exist. Microsoft lists the release date for SBS 2011 Essentials as 1H 2011. As of this writing, it's SBS 2011 Standard and the optional SBS 2011 Premium Add-on. Microsoft has released Windows Small Business Server 2011.
#Windows 2011 sbs pdf#
Note: This article is also available as a PDF download. Windows Small Business Server 2011 continues that tradition with many important changes of its own. These changes have significantly affected small businesses and the IT professionals who support them. For example, Exchange 2003 services debuted with the 2003 platform, and Hyper-V licensing with the '08 iteration. Each new version has introduced important changes. SBS 2011 Standard does not appear to have the same type of PowerShell cmdlets available as SBS Essentials, however that should not stop you exploring what is possible by using PowerShell.Microsoft's Small Business Server has changed the way numerous small organizations administer Windows networks. There are some other ways you can get the Function to work, but for simplicity ill stick to this one. c:\users\dfunk\param.ps1 –CmdLet Add-WssUser | format-table –AutoSize
So lets put it into practice using the Add-WssUser as a test CmdLet. My preference is to use the PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripted Environment) which you may have to install, it is a feature and can be installed using the following command.ĭISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName=MicrosoftWindowsPowerShellISE
#Windows 2011 sbs code#
(or maybe i just couldn’t see it) Anyway, following this post i worked out i could just save that code into a notepad document with a PS1 extension, and then call it from a PowerShell session.
#Windows 2011 sbs how to#
Unfortunately for me, being a novice PowerShell scripter, although those posts gave me the function i needed, it didn’t actually tell me how to create it. Which seems to have been posted by so thanks go to him. However, you may not want to refer back to that tools file every time you need to know which parameters are available, so to display all available parameters in the PowerShell session, you need to add a custom function.įirstly, ill save you the trouble of scouring the internet, the answer is to be found here. Well happily, the output of our earlier CmdLet, has put all of that into our ToolsList.txt file for us Well it is not as straight forward as you might think, of, you were expecting that? This command will show me some information about my user account.įinding this command however, led me to another question, how do you find valid parameters for a CmdLet? I suppose i need to give you an example of a command in action, so here is one i thought was very useful Now we have a handy resource, for looking at all the available PowerShell commands on the box, the SBS Essentials commands are at the bottom, prefixed with WSS. I took away the PSSnapin column, added the Format List (fl) option, and also used the Out-File option to output our result to a text file. Get-Help * | where-object | Select Name,Synopsis | Sort Name | fl | Out-File c:\ToolsList.txt
Help is at hand however, with this nifty little command. Now you get your PowerShell prompt in a separate window.įirstly, something that always bugged me was that i just get a prompt, i mean literally a prompt, (wow how GUI am i?)ĭon’t get me wrong, i know how to program a Cisco Router/Switch from Hyper Terminal, so i am not completely devoid of command line skills, but when i learned that, at least i had a book to go from.īut if you don’t know what commands are available, you are kind of at a loss. Now enter the command : WssPowerShell.exe Navigate to c:\program files\windows server\bin I mainly use PowerShell for reporting on things, especially with Exchange, however having been recently working on an SBS 2011 Essentials Migration, i found some really useful PowerShell commands that i wanted to share.įirst off, lets load up the SBS Essentials PowerShell Snapin. Of course piping output is nothing new, generally speaking. , but it is really easy to do some basic stuff, like querying for a list of users, then applying further queries to the output, by using a pipe. Not being a developer i struggle to build complex PowerShell scripts There does not seem to be much you can’t find out with it, or configure with it.
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