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So been studying Powershell for work and so far finding it very interesting. Does anyone know of any good resources on this? Books, websites, cbt's that you have used.

Used Powershell? What are your thoughts?

 

Great resource from MS. Top 10 Favorite Powershell Tricks Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

 

Exchange powershell was very helpful when I had to bulk create 1000 mailboxes for users already in AD. Was migrating from a non MS mail system at the time.

Don't use it day to day so always need to read up on it before the next migration project

 

Nice one mate handy to know things people use this for in the field. I think we could benefit greatly from this but we are all vbscript at the min, but times they are a changin

 

I’m surprised at the amount of techs who don’t use scripting, even batch files.

I’m auditing a network just now and each user (all 50 of them) have their own batch file, older batch files are in the sysvol directory so there is around 100 batch files there.

Could easily be fixed by using %username% in the batch file <sigh>

 

Bloomin heck, maybe its a cultural thing because even tho I'm new to scripting its used heavily in our place and batch files are a must for some tasks. There's no way I'm going to use the pstools on more than a few machines without a batch file.

I'm loving this powershell stuff tho. Its always put me off that I'd have to learn VBScript for some reason, I'm not sure why. Now that MS has Powershell and is driving it I quite fancy becoming "the powershell" guy on my team.

 

Definitely a good skill to have mate.

I haven’t done any vbscript in a while but I didn’t mind doing it as I used to code Visual Basic apps a while back (was in VB 6!). I used to write the whole script in notepad and then save it as a .vbs file &#8211; dunno what I was thinking!

 

Bah sounds like how the experts do it to me I think its quite understated how many brownie points there are to be had scripting some of the more monotonous tasks. I like that theres plenty of resources on the net that will help you if you want to do something specific too. Its just figuring out whats worth the time to figure the script out isn't it I find

 

Yup, definitely plenty resources on the web. Best to build up a collection of scripts and then just tweak them as needed (e.g server names).

 

I particularly like the way MS have been decent enough to cater for our *nix brethren by allowing the commands that have a lot in commonto perform the same action in powershell, ls and dir spring to mind, quite a move on MS's part and very well played IMHO

 

Possibly so mate, I wouldn't know as I intend to be bad a$$ Seriously tho, there are a fair few plodders in my game I've noticed. Each to their own but not my style

 

Same here.

-Ken

 

Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0, 5 day course in London booked for September with Global Knowledge. Really looking forward to this one. Believe it or not, I've never been to London so I will be doing the whole tourist thing after each day Everyone I've told that too doesn't believe me for some reason ha ha I will let you know how it goes. I am a fan of GK after my VCP course tbh. Objectives:

Explain how Windows PowerShell works
Use Windows PowerShell as an interactive, command-line shell
Use Core Windows PowerShell cmdlets for everyday purpose
Customize the output using Windows PowerShell Formatting Subsystem
Explain what Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is and how it can be used from Windows PowerShell
Manage Active Directory objects using Windows PowerShell cmdlets
Write basic Windows PowerShell scripts that execute batches of commands
Work with Windows PowerShell’s background jobs and remote administration functionality
Masterthe scripting language of Windows PowerShell
Use advancedtechniques related to structured programming within Windows PowerShell
Automate Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration using Windows PowerShell
Identify the best practices for working with Windows PowerShell

 

Good man