PowerShell tutorial series

There are a lot of blog posts and books about PowerShell and with the blogging about CTP for PowerShell v2 going on, it can get even more confusing. Having succeeded in getting another co-worker seriously interested in PowerShell I sent him one of my recent tutorial finds and dug out an older one from my delicious bookmarks. To make it easier for me to give the links to friends, here are the links to both series. Each has a different approach that provides some significant value.

Mastering PowerShell during your lunch break series.

• Day 1: Getting organized
• Day 2: Writing Scripts and Translating VBScript
• Day 3: Discovering objects (COM, WMI & ADSI)
• Day 4: Ins and Outs of the Windows Registry
• Day 5: Using WMI
• Day 6: ADSI Connecting to Domains/Computers and Binding to Objects
• Day 7: Manage Users

Effective PowerShell series.

• Effective PowerShell Item 01: The Four Cmdlets That are the Keys to Finding Your Way Around PowerShell
• Effective PowerShell Item 02: Use the Objects Luke. Use the Objects!
• Effective PowerShell Item 03: Know Your Output Formatters
• Effective PowerShell Item 04: Commenting Out lines in a Script File
• Effective PowerShell Item 05: Use Set-PSDebug -Strict In Your Scripts - Religiously
• Effective PowerShell Item 06: Know What Objects Are Flowing Down the Pipe
• Effective PowerShell Item 07: Understanding Output
• Effective PowerShell Item 08: Output Cardinality - Scalers, Collections and Empty Sets - Oh My!
• Effective PowerShell Item 09: Regular Expressions - One of the Power Tools in PowerShell
• Effective PowerShell Item 10: Understanding PowerShell Parsing Modes
• Effective PowerShell Item 11: Understanding ByPropertName Pipeline Bound Parameters
• Effective PowerShell Item 12: Understanding ByValue PipeLine Bound Parameters
• Effective PowerShell Item 13: Comparing Arrays in Windows PowerShell

To get you stared, a post of mine, on setting up your environment and check out Microsoft's Windows PowerShell Owner's Manual. Microsoft also has other valuable resource in their Virtual labs under Windows System Administration Scripting. The Script Center also has the useful PowerShell Tip of the Week as well which gives you a central place for a lot of techniques and can also supplement the Script Center Script Repository.

A free training book I mentioned can be found from here.

and some new to me...
PowerShell tutorials that look pretty good.

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