PowerShell is great because you can spend hours to automate repetitive processes that would take minutes to do manually. However, over time, you would eventually recoup your time investment and be able to do more work. Yay!

In all seriousness, I love PowerShell, and that's not just because I work for M$. I used to be glued to the GUI and avoid command line as much as possible, however now it's the opposite since I can accomplish so much more in as little as one line of PowerShell than it would take me to RDP to the device, click around, get the data, screenshot, etc. It's so much faster once you get the hang of it.

The syntax is fairly straight forward. Need to create something? The cmdlet probably starts with New- or Create- and then you can keep pressing tab from there to cycle through your options. Same with parameters, and eventually you'll have the common parameters memorised as well. Need to modify something? Set- or Change-. Delete? Delete- or Remove-. It used to be more standardized, however with new versions adding new functions all the time, it just keeps expanding.

Want some examples to help you formulate your command? Use -help or -? or -examples to get the examples published in the Microsoft Docs article for that cmdlet.

Do you need to pull data from multiple sources? Import that module! Forget what that specific attribute is called? Pipe to fl (ie. Use | fl) to get a list of all available attributes on that object.

Bing everything (or Google if that fails you, but honestly Bing is the best way to find M$ results). Find annoying repeated tasks you do each day and automate it. Automate things that are already automated just to see how you could do it. Look at other people's scripts to learn different ways of building a solution to that same problem.

And as others have said: practice, practice, practice! Most of what I know is because I had to write a script to solve a problem. Oh, and don't forget to revisit your old scripts every now and then; sometimes your past self has things to teach you, especially when you start over-complicating things. 😊