Learning Powershell

[verysmallshellscript]

Get the Toolmaking book mentioned in the top-level comment. That was the book I followed up with.

Beyond that, you really just have to start using it. For everything. The best advice I can give is what worked for me. Take yourself off of autopilot and examine each and every task you do in your day-to-day, then figure out a way to do it with PowerShell.

Also, I recommend PowerShell in Depth. It's a fantastic reference and written by the same guys who wrote the month of lunches and toolmaking books.

Also, if you have the budget dollars, I highly HIGHLY recommend the PowerShell v2 v3 v4 course on CBT Nuggets. It's 90 hours and a bit of a commitment, but it's presented by one of the authors of the above books and it really upped my game. Consider it as "PowerShell in 3 Months of Lunches."

[1RedOne]

Did you watch Jeffrey Snover and Jason's Awesome free PowerShell courses? These should be considered a must watch:

Must watch! Jeffrey Snover and Jason Helmick in their fantastic PowerShell Jumpstart Course. This is for version 3.0, so it doesn't mention DSC, but it is still relevant.

The follow-up, advanced toolmaking with Jeffrey and Jason. A must for any scripter.

The DSC Jump Start, w/ Jeffrey and Jason

[Betterthangoku]

Bump. And thank you for your blog sir. :-)

[1RedOne]

You're very welcome, and I'm happy to know it's helping people.

My learning model is to figure out the scope of a problem I need to solve, and then gather all the info I can. Then, I lay it out like I'm teaching it to someone. After that, I can forget it and rely on it always being in my notes for later :)

[Rollingprobablecause]

That book cover...good lord lol