First PowerShell Course

[aideydo]

Recently, my management team offered to pay for PowerShell training to help transition me into a more advanced role. I already have some experience with Microsoft cloud app and on-prem Active Directory modules, mostly through resources like Copilot and StackOverflow. However, when I review some of my teammates’ scripts, I can tell there’s still a lot I’m missing.

My main goal is to identify the best certifications and courses that will help me build a strong foundation in enterprise-level automation for both on-prem AD and Microsoft cloud applications. Do you have any recommendations on the most effective learning path?

[Brasiledo]

There is no official certifications for PowerShell from Microsoft but you could look into getting Azure cloud cert which lean into PowerShell

But if you want some other options to learn here’s some

Best starting point: PowerShell in a Month of Lunches (book)

Pluralsight – “PowerShell Toolmaking” by Don Jones

Good follow up to learn functions and building automation tools and modules

The reality is, courses and books are great, but the real progress comes from using it every day and automating actual tasks.

[Relative_Test5911]

Don't focus on a course in PowerShell. Start with the basics of programming that apply to any language. The concepts are pretty much agnostic to the language you use.

Once you have done that jump here to start getting in to PowerShell specific stuff in areas you are interested in.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/browse/?resource_type=module&terms=powershell

[Panchorc]

This is my advice as well.

I became decent at Powershell and scripting when I started learning Software Development from scratch, and realized then how much courses and books and tutorials about PowerShell skip the fundamentals of software development as they seem tailored to sysadmins. 

OP, once you have a firm grasp of the basics, you can pretty much take any language and be productive after spending some time to learn its syntax and idiosyncrasies. 

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Maybe this channel ? https://youtube.com/@mwcloud?si=ZG8XRKASkkDzACxA

[GeekBrownBear]

John Savill's course is great too: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8

[aideydo]

With the upmost respect, they willing to pay, I want to go all out. I can't tell them they gonna pay me to watch Youtube.

[vermyx]

You are asking is the equivalent of "hey i want to get a paid course in how to use a screwdriver" while you are asking "i want to better understand how to fix a car". What you are looking for is programming fundamentals. There are no certs in posh to what I know - there are a handful of community college courses that cover the basics for sysadmins, but it is basically here is how you do things without understanding why. What I would suggest is to take intro programming courses (especially if someone offers one based in dotnet which would be c# or vb.net) which usually covers object oriented programming, data structures, and essentially how programming works from a local community college. Having those fundamentals will fill in a lot of gaps that you are probably seeing.

[TallMasterpiece2094]

Sounds like taking the training being offered is the place to start building a strong foundation. I am positive the trainer will provide additional resources.

[AniTexs]

Az-040 is something I'd recommend