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PowerShell Pro launches PowerShell tutorials.
Formal Training is just too expensive and out of reach for many. I could attend a semester of college with the prices I've seen. If you have the luxury of working for a large company with a training budget, you are one of the lucky ones… What do you do if you can not meet the cost of training?
PowerShell Graphical Help File
Kudos to the Microsoft Scripting Guys for editing the PowerShell help file and wrapping it into a graphical format. Here is what is contained in the file:
- Windows PowerShell cmdlet help.
- Windows PowerShell "About" files.
- The Script Center's VBScript to Windows PowerShell conversion guide (my favorite).
Below is a link provided to download the tool. This is a "Must" download; highly recommended.
What you must know about ‘Out-File’
I ran into this question today regarding why the PowerShell Out-File format was not giving an expected result.
“Hey all, I’m new to Powershell (but who isn’t, eh?), but I’ve been writing all sorts of management scripts in VBScript for years now, and I need help with a script. I have a VBScript that crawls a directory tree and, checks for files that haven’t been accessed in over a year, and then outputs the name and path of all of these files to a text file. The main reason that I’m converting it to Powershell is that PS doesn’t appear to be having trouble with foreign characters, specifically Japanese, whereas I can’t get VBScript to do anything but crash when it gets to Japanese characters.
The Script Center Script Repository: Sample Windows PowerShell Scripts
Microsoft’s Scripting Center is an excellent resource for PowerShell scripts. Many times I’ve utilized the scripts as a baseline for ambitious tasks that had to be completed. Using the PowerShell Script Repository you will find Scripts related to: Active Directory, Applications, Desktop Management, Hardware, Logs, Networking, Operating Systems, Other Directory Services, Printing, Scripting Techniques, Service Packs, Hot Fixes, Storage, and Terminal Server. Each with it own subset of categories. As of this writing the PowerShell script library is not as extensive as the library for VBScript, but give it time. I will not be posting any of the PowerShell scripts from the Microsoft Library as I have provided a link for the information at the end of this post. What I will be doing in the future is posting more customized scripts, scripts that build on the samples provided by Microsoft.
link:The Script Center Script Repository: Sample Windows PowerShell Scripts
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Learn PowerShell in Under 30 Pages – Microsoft Switzerland to the Rescue
Microsoft Switzerland just translated into English, a PowerShell pdf designed to assist in the quest of PowerShell knowledge, I think? I may have been taken back a little by the loose translation. Here's the example: "An Introduction to scripting technologies for people with no real background knowledge." O.k. I know what they mean (no real background in PowerShell) but for a split-second I was unsure. So I read on…