This article was formerly titled "Automating IT Tasks with PowerShell Overview."**
PowerShell is a vast product, especially when you take into account how it's used in other products such as Lync Server, Exchange, and the Windows Operating System. It can be a little daunting to those new with PowerShell - there is a vast array of deeply technical discussions of all of PowerShell's many aspects, quirks and peculiarities and all. So start at the beginning, and learn the basics, either on you own, or possibly with the aid of a great training class. Then work with it and return to find more. And when you can, how about adding to the body of knowledge referenced here.
The purpose of this document is to help you to learn more about PowerShell and to be successful in applying it. This document seeks to point to the best content on the web to enable you to reach that goal.
This page contains links to help you learn more about Microsoft PowerShell. This includes PowerShell fundamentals as well as how PowerShell is used in Windows applications and services. As long as it's PowerShell related, we'll try to point to it! The document is also version agnostic, and contains information about current and future versions of PowerShell.
This section includes a list of pointers to guides that show you how to get started with PowerShell. For a more general list of sites that simply talk about PowerShell you should take a look in the "Essential PowerShell Resources Section".
This section includes a list of pointers to guides that show you how to write advanced PowerShell scripts or pointers to specific topics.
You get PowerShell, either fully loaded as a part of Window 7/Server 2008 R2 or later, as an add-on (eg Server 2008 RTM that enabled you to load PowerShell Version 1) or as an OS Patch.
The web contains a rich set of advice and guidance for PowerShell - from learning the basics, to the obscure corners most folks don't go to. Below are what the community figures are the best general purpose places to go for good advice and guidance. NB: In a later section, below, we also provide links to more specific sets of guidance around the use of PowerShell.
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Note: Some of the links here were sourced from the PowerShell Security Survival Guide
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There are numerous repositories of PowerShell sample scripts. Some are very simple and just demonstrate one or two particular aspects of a class or COM object,while others are richer and fuller featured and do more. But all can be adapted, modified, and leveraged.
The community has been a rich resource, providing modules to manage aspects of Microsoft products. These can be invaluable This section sets out the key add-on modules and provides links to more guidance on their usage.
A List of Popular PowerShell Modules you can find here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4309.powershell-enabled-technologies-en-us.aspx
Graphical user interfaces that have been built on top of Powershell. They are built in a variety of methods including Winforms, WPF, WPK, and the Powershell module Show-UI.
A List of Powershell-Enabled Technologies you can find here:
A List of Windows Features and Roles that Take Advantage of PowerShell you can find here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4327.list-of-windows-features-and-roles-that-take-advantage-of-windows-powershell-en-us.aspx
Most Videos you can get on channel9 http://channel9.msdn.com/search?term=powershell
Webcast you can find by search true the Internet:
Note: you can get all of the PowerShell posts from these English Language blogs in one place (and as a single RSS feed).
PowerShellGroup.org is the leading registry for PowerShell dedicated user groups. The PowerShellGroup.org community provides tools and support for creating and maintaining user groups. Current groups registered are:
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**I changed the title from a brand-based (Survival Guide) title to a task-based title to observe the effect on page views and discoverability. This particular experiment resulted in significant reduction in page views. So I changed it back. Because that's the kind of thing you can do on the wiki :-)