![]() Let’s start with some basic ideas and places to go to learn Windows PowerShell. On the other hand, if your vendor happens to supply you with an Out-PayRollCheck cmdlet, then more Windows PowerShell to ya! I do believe that attempting to get the formatting right would be way, way, way too hard. Just like you probably don’t want to use Windows PowerShell to write payroll checks. There is no reason to spend hours of time and frustration trying to get Windows PowerShell to create an organizational chart. It would take more time than that to find the documentation for the Visio API-not to mention beginning to understand it. Simply fire up Visio, spend a few hours adding shapes and text, and voila! You are done. It might be possible, but the complexity of the script, along with the likelihood of (hopefully) limited script reuse, made such a proposition a huge pain. I am not going to get into all the details, but the short and true answer is that Windows PowerShell is not the tool for this task. One such example was a man who kept asking Ed and others to help him with his script to build an organizational chart for his company. ![]() Bear in mind (believe it or not) that Windows PowerShell is not always the best tool for the job. You can use that as your goal, and learn how to write the Windows PowerShell script to accomplish it. If you are an IT professional, you may have an idea of something you do in a repeated manner that could possibly be automated. Then by trying it myself, I can apply what I have learned. Personally, I like to hear an explanation, then have someone give me an example to follow. So here goes…Įveryone learns in a different fashion, some by reading, some by listening, some by doing, and some by a combination of all of these. ![]() From time-to-time, whether at TechEd, at a user group meeting, or even online, people ask me how to go about learning Windows PowerShell. I asked her to talk a little bit about how one goes about learning Windows PowerShell. Today we have a guest post by Windows PowerShell MVP, Teresa Wilson, aka The Scripting Wife. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Summary: PowerShell MVP, Teresa Wilson, talks about the best ways to learn Windows PowerShell.
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