Learning PowerShell

[T3X4S]

Anyone have a good source of info for a crash course in PowerShell ?

I have bookmarked many pages that I need to read, and watched a couple of videos, but I am really looking for some insight from someone that can point me to some good resources.

I found videos online but they are done by someone with an annoying, heavy accent and its hard to pay attention to what is being said, not how its being said (I have ADD and things like that will get me off topic)


Thanks for any help -

[sc302 Veteran]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/powershell.aspx

http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/getting-started-with-powershell-3-0-jump-start

I don't know what you are looking to do, but this is all general knowledge/getting started. Anything specific you will need to look up. Exchange has its own PS commands and has its own powershell.

All I can say is that ps command /? is one of your friends, the other is tab when you want to cycle through different commands available.

[T3X4S]

Thanks sc302

I have learned about the /? & the tab auto-complete thing - those are indeed very nice.

I will see if those links are different than what Ive set aside for later viewing.

I guess what I was hoping for was if someone had found a video, or cheatsheet, or website that was a great tutorial. (Just hoping to save some time so I dont waste it by looking for something good....I can spend the time learning)


Thanks for your input

[]SK[]

Still learning myself but it's been fairly easy to do the basics.  I suggest thinking of a task and then go about researching on writing it like get all running services, sort them by name and exporting to a CSV.

 

Exchange 2007/2010 IMO was great. The GUI would basically be a frontend for PowerShell.  Once you ran a command it would expose the PowerShell command it used.  

[GrayW]

Veeam have got a Learn Powershell short course, not tried it myself: http://go.veeam.com/learn-powershell-ty/

 

There is also http://powershelltutorial.net

[Grunt]

Only starting resource you need is:-

Don Jones: Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches

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[Aergan]

Using the PowerShell commandlets to manage a service or application is a great way to start (e.g. Hyper-V, Exchange, Task Scheduling).

 

If you want to venture into GUI's, PrimalForms once did a "community edition" that you can search via search engines for that's good for creating a form structure to start with.

[T3X4S]

Guys, thanks a lot. I saw the link for the month of lunches, I'll check it out as well.

Thanks Again for All the Sources, very nice of you all