PowerShell Tutorials

PowerShell Tutorial Enstine.

PowerShell Tutorial for beginners. Windows PowerShell instruction thought-out for those new to PowerShell. In the next few weeks I will be posting a series of PowerShell basics that will provide a good start for a solid foundation.

Here is what I have slated:

  • The Windows PowerShell Console - Configuration and Customization.
  • PowerShell Basics - Cmdlets, Parameters, Command Types, Command Information, etc…
  • Output using the PowerShell Format command.
  • Engaging the Windows File System.
  • WMI and .NET primer (real basic)
  • Variables in PowerShell
  • Taking what you have learned and applying it.

The initial lessons are concentrated around PowerShell as a Command Shell.  The commands and syntaxes you learn will be utilized in script writing. An enormous feature of PowerShell is the ability to build and test code at the command prompt. If you have experience in VBScript you understand. VBScript doesn’t have a command line, you write the script, test it, and make adjustments. With PowerShell you can test functionality within the command line before writing it to your script, very powerful!

Enjoy the Tutorials!

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Comments

By foo-bar on December 7th, 2007 at 8:55 am

Good stuff, thank you.

By Patrick on February 1st, 2008 at 9:22 am

Well done Mr. Hamrick. I would like to add a comment to your Introduction section. When one runs a script at the PS command line, the syntax calls for .\script.ps1. Hmmm? It still won’t run because one’s ExecutionPolicy is installed with a default of Restricted. Do a Get-ExecutionPolicy, PS shows Restricted. Do Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned , retry the .\script and Voila! There are some reasons for this that have mostly to do with security & hack prevention. Get-Help -detailed will tell you more as well as Jesse’s many pages and examples.
I had a heck of a time starting out because I didn’t “get this” subtle syntax. Hope this helps those who are being introduced.

By Jesse Hamrick on February 15th, 2008 at 8:01 am

Patrick,
That is correct, the Execution Policy is Restricted by default. For those of you who are interested in Patrick’s comment, we discuss Execution Policy and how to set it in the “PowerShell Aliases” tutorial under the “User-Defined Aliases using PowerShell Profiles” section.

foo-bar,
you are welcome…

By arshad on August 11th, 2008 at 12:00 am

How can i view tutorials, i couldn’t find? or is it paid, kindly let me know as i am intrested to start my scripting for the first time and have zerod on powershell as i have only windows GUI experience.

By Jesse Hamrick on August 26th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

Tutorials are free and accessible from the sidebar.

By Richard on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:50 am

I would just like to say thank you for publishing these very useful tutorials!

They have been a great primer on the versatility of PowerShell.

I am going to go out and purchase one of the books you recommended!

Best Regards.

By heze on March 4th, 2009 at 8:10 am

where are the tutorials?

By ides_of_march on March 15th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

am I missing something here? where are the tutorials?

By Bingo Little on March 16th, 2009 at 2:41 am

How about putting a TOC to the tutorials right here in this post?

By Mike on July 24th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

Where do you find the tutorials? I see the link at the bottom to Tutorial #1, and can search the site and find random other tutorials…but where is the “main” tutorial page with the “index” of, and/or links to available tutorials?

By Mike on July 24th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

I guess, nevermind. I see the “links” on the side…I guess I was anticipating that the tutorials would continue with the same numbering format (i.e. 1, 2, 3, etc) so a person would know which order to take them in; guess I will start at the top and work my way down the listing.

Great site though! Glad to have some resources available.

By Leslie on August 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am

Can you please tell me the most efficent order to take these tutorials in?

By Smitty on November 13th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

I just started learning PowerShell earlier this month.
This tutorial was fun and informative. I’m going over the tutorials again to further internalize them.
Thank you for providing such an excellent source!

By Bob on December 1st, 2009 at 11:40 am

How do you convert a bash script like the following:

for i in `grep -r “2\.7\.14″ *`; do cp $i $i.orig; sed -e ’s/this/that/g’ $i; done

Which recursively searches files for the string ‘2.7.14′ and replaces it with ‘2.7.15′?

Essentially, how can you process an arbitrary list of items where that list is generated by another process?

 

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