Hi all, Thanks for writing in. Will check out some books i have found. And there seems also to be a lot of documentation online all over the place. Greetings, Simon Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems T: +43 5576 7101-1143 | E: simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at | www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Darragh Ó Héiligh <d@digitaldarragh.com> Gesendet: Montag, 13. Mai 2019 13:01 An: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Betreff: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: PowerShell Documentation, books and tutorials I'm not an expert by any means. I do what I need when I need it but I don't find reading books on coding to be that useful. The way I learned Power shell was to subscribe to course delivery platforms such as Pluralsites, Lynda, Linked in learning etc. I generally download their repositories then try to follow along with the video. Lynda doesn't always make this particularly easy but I've had good experience with Plural sites and Linked in learning. As they say though, necessity is the mother of all invention. Find something you want to do that annoys you. Something straight forward at first like removing all the users from a group because that's always great fun when your managing massive groups with 104,000 active users. This is a real pain using ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers) so it was a good place to get started for me anyway. Mess around with various methods of doing this and you'll learn about writing loops, filtering, using user properties etc. Obviously, don't test on production groups. I know I don't need to say that here. I don't like the commands in power shell. But what I do like is the instant feedback. Want to see if you can insert a string into a particular object, just fire the command into the power shell command line and see what happens. Again... in your test environment... Not in your live environment. Have fun. The info switch is your friend. Oh. So is get-help. Finally, let me mention commandlets. These open up amazing possibilities. From the one power shell window, issue commands to Azure, Office365, on prem exchange, VMWare, Hyper-V and lot's of other major systems. Do I need to say it again just to be sure? On... Your... Test.. System... Power shell is great but it's also dangerous. There's always that dread when running something that's touching a lot of data or files. So, please be careful. Or don't. But if your not careful, please let us know. I like reading funny messages where other people are feeling pain and I'm not. -----Original Message----- From: Simon Eigeldinger <simon.eigeldinger@vol.at> Sent: Sunday 12 May 2019 16:56 To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] PowerShell Documentation, books and tutorials Hi all, I want to learn PowerShell. Anyone can recommend a good online book, tutorials, documentation, etc. to start off? Greetings, Simon --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org