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Administration and Automation with Windows PowerShell

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Course Introduction

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Getting Started with Windows PowerShell

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Getting Help and Finding Commands

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PowerShell Command Syntax

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PowerShell Objects and Properties

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The PowerShell Pipeline

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PowerShell Providers

• 30min

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PowerShell Arrays and Variables

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PowerShell Loops

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PowerShell Conditional Statements

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On Premises Lab Setup

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Basic Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell

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Send Emails with PowerShell

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PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Basics

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PowerShell Modules

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Powershell Challenges

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Section Overview
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The Trusted Hosts List Challenge
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The Trusted Hosts List Answer
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Starting a Remote Session Challenge
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Starting a Remote Session Answer
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Rename a Computer Challenge
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Rename a Computer Answer
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Change a Password on a Remote Computer Challenge
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Change a Password on a Remote Computer Answer
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How to Copy Files To-From a Remote Machine Challenge
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How to Copy Files To-From a Remote Machine using VSC Answer
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How to Export Logs to a CSV File Challenge
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How to Export Logs to a CSV File Answer
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How to Create Multiple Folders on the Host Machine using Powershell
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How to Create Multiple Folders on the Host Machine using Powershell Answer
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Who Rebooted the Server ID1074 Challenge
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Who Rebooted the Server
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How can you get Info on all your Hard Drives Challenge
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How can you get Info on all your Hard Drives Answer
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How can I get a list of CPU's and Installed Printers, Last Boot-up Time Challenge
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How can I get a List of CPU's and Installed Printers, Last Boot-up Time Answer
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How can I Automate Tasks with Task Scheduler Challenge
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How can I Automate Tasks with the Task Scheduler Answer
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Course Conclusion

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Send Emails from Gmail with PowerShell

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In this lesson, you will be learning how to send emails from your Gmail account with Windows PowerShell.

There are several reasons why you may want to programmatically send emails with Windows PowerShell.  For example, you may want to automatically email users when their Active Directory passwords are about to expire, or when their AD account locks out.

Note: This functionality is disabled in the online IT labs due to security reasons.

In order to send emails directly from your either personal or company Gmail account, we are going to need to allow access first. This means we need to allow “less secure apps” to authenticate.

A less secure app is basically anything that simply uses a username and password rather than something that uses OAuth tokens. In the security world, this is a very bad practice… but for the simplicity of this tutorial, I am going to do it anyway.

I went to my GSuite admin panel and allowed users to manage their less secure apps: https://admin.google.com/u/1/ac/security/lsa?hl=en

Next, I logged into the target account I wanted to send the emails from and enabled “Allow less secure apps”: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

Now we can send emails programmatically from windows PowerShell with the function below:

  1. function Send-Email() {
  2.     param(
  3.         [Parameter(mandatory=$true)][string]$To,
  4.         [Parameter(mandatory=$true)][string]$Subject,
  5.         [Parameter(mandatory=$true)][string]$Body
  6.     )
  7.  
  8.     $username   = (Get-Content -Path 'C:\Users\Paul Hill\credentials.txt')[0]
  9.     $password   = (Get-Content -Path 'C:\Users\Paul Hill\credentials.txt')[1]
  10.     $secstr     = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.SecureString
  11.     $password.ToCharArray() | ForEach-Object {$secstr.AppendChar($_)}
  12.  
  13.     $hash = @{
  14.         from       = $username
  15.         to         = $To
  16.         subject    = $Subject
  17.         smtpserver = "smtp.gmail.com"
  18.         body       = $Body
  19.         credential = New-Object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $username, $secstr
  20.         usessl     = $true
  21.         verbose    = $true
  22.     }
  23.  
  24.     Send-MailMessage @hash
  25. }

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