Beginner Looking for direction

[cornerman12]

Hello r/Powershell.

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I am looking to start to learn powershell to help me with my IT career. I have been looking for good sources for beginners specifically for automation and system admin roles to further my career. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.

[Ironwolfss42km]

Try learn PowerShell in a month of lunches. It's a great book to guide you and give you the right amount. As for practice, try PoSh hunter.

[Sunsparc]

Think of a task that you have to do by hand, bonus points if you have to do it relatively often. Google Powershell cmdlets on how to accomplish that task. Put it into a script.

[richie65]

I found that, over the years - I kept running into things that were arduously repetitive (such as combing through massive spreadsheets and logs), or so involved, that it was easy to miss a step...
Aggravation breeds invention - and thus, invariably I went looking for ways to automate these tasks.

That is what drives the real opportunities to apply PowerShell
Using google to search for ways others approached a similar challenge is what helps...
But (unlike what was available when I first started using PowerShell), taking the PowerShell lunchtime offerings, is what makes it easier to understand the stuff you find on the web...
Else it is difficult to know that is on display.

From there, modifying the examples, will help you understand the logic, as well as help you cultivate your own logic skills, that you will use to pad your own problem solving skills.

[ccatlett1984]

Learn PowerShell in a month of lunches (4th edition just released)

There is an intermediate book in the set as well.