Troubleshooting Windows Server with PowerShell

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

本書向您展示如何使用 PowerShell 快速定位、診斷和解決 Windows Server 環境中的問題，減少對外部工具的需求，並確保您隨時掌握 PowerShell，因為它迅速成為管理員工具箱中最有用的工具之一。

作者 Derek Schauland 和 Donald Jacobs 通過一系列示例帶領您，向您展示如何從不同的計算機來源收集信息。無論您是在本地登錄到服務器還是只想從本地計算機檢查服務器的狀態，正確的 PowerShell cmdlet 可以快速為您提供大量信息，並允許您通過命令行與服務器的桌面進行少量交互來進行故障排除。

在本書中，您將學習到 PowerShell 如何幫助您：

- 理解 PowerShell 與圖形用戶界面（GUI）的區別
- 從 Windows 事件日誌中收集信息
- 從您的服務器中收集信息，包括內存、硬件配置和可用磁盤空間
- 查找安裝在服務器上的應用程序
- 查看已安裝在您的計算機上的 Windows 更新
- 檢查正在運行的進程並收集有關它們的信息，或從命令行啟動和停止它們
- 快速檢查服務是否運行，並根據需要停止或啟動它們

這本書適合以下讀者：

- Windows 管理員、IT 專業人員和支援人員，需要使用所提供的工具快速查找和解決環境中的問題
- 那些進入 IT 領域或希望提升 PowerShell 技能的人也會從本書中受益。