PowerShell Ecosystem

Here are the social media, videos, courses, bloggers

Here are links to the ecosystem of people interested in PowerShell.

Noteworthy pages in the FAQ:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kebab/2013/06/09/an-introduction-to-error-handling-in-powershell/
http://ss64.com/ps/syntax.html
https://github.com/PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle
Twitter @powershell by the @PowerShell_Team.
Twitter @PowerShellMag
Join the Chatroom on Gitter at
https://gitter.im/PowerShell/PowerShell
Sign-up for the Slack group at http://slack.poshcode.org
#powershell IRC room on freenode

Video courses

$120 Advanced Windows PowerShell Scripting: From cmdlets and Custom Views to Object Creation and Automation 6 hours video course from O’Reilly Media January 2016 by Jason Yoder shows usage of Windows Server 8.1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (not the more recent Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012). It’s based on Hyper-V with a second machine.

Jim Christopher

Jeff Hicks (Microsoft MVP) created a “PowerShell v3/v4 Essentials for IT Admins” series with Pluralsight June 2013:

Jeff also did:

PowerShell.org
Windows PowerShell Owner’s manual by Microsoft
PowerShell-Scripting.com
shelltools.net
http://powershelldistrict.com/powershell-mac-os-x was written based on alpha.9 release.
Getting Input into Your PowerShell Functions with Parameters
- shows how to build function parameters in reusable snippets.
PowerShell Pipeline: Timing PowerShell Automations
- get an accurate measurement of how long it takes to run a specific or set a timer for your script to run.
PowerShell Pipeline: Exploring the Active Directory Forest and Domain
- use the Active Directory Module to run available cmdlets and automate many of your daily tasks.
Querying MySQL Databases with PowerShell
- save time by automatically querying up data.
Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition 2nd Edition by Bruce Payette. Highly recommended.

This is one of a series on DevOps: