Learning More About PowerShell
PowerShell is a very rich and potentially complex product—or it can be, if you start to take into account some of the advanced options described in the previous list. There is a large amount of material available to help you learn more about PowerShell, including books, web sites/blogs, and training courses.
PowerShell-related books include:
Bruce Payette, Windows PowerShell in Action (Manning Publications)
Don Jones and Jeffrey Hicks, PowerShell: TFM (Sapien Press)
PowerShell e-book (http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/9/4/a94270c7-ed16-4c72-8280-658c66315719/Windows%20Powershell%20-%20EN.zip); samples of this e-book are available at http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/9/4/a94270c7-ed16-4c72-8280-658c66315719/PowerShell-Demofiles.zip
Here are some PowerShell-related web sites and blogs:
Windows PowerShell Team Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/default.aspx)
The PowerShell Guy (http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/)
Keith Hill's blog (http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/)
Thomas Lee's Under The Stairs blog (http://tfl09.blogspot.com)
Microsoft's PowerShell Script repository (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/msh/default.mspx?mfr=true)
There are also a number of training classes to consider. First, there's the Microsoft Official Course 6434, which is due for release early in 2008. This is a three-day, hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of PowerShell for Windows Server 2008 administrators. ...
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