PowerShell Resources

Update:  This list has been moved to this page rather than a post.  I will leave the content below unaltered, but be sure to refer to the new page for the rare update!

 

I’m starting to build a list of PowerShell resources for co-workers and me.  I plan to keep this up to date and add resources on a regular basis, so you may want to check back occasionally.

Cheat sheets and quick references

• PowerShell Cheat Sheet
• Windows PowerShell 3.0 Quick Reference Guides – PowerShell Magazine
• Exchange 2010 – Matthew Abraham
• PowerShell Refcard – Bruce Payette
• Active Directory – Jonathan Medd
• Lync 2010
• vSphere PowerCLI 5.1
• PowerShell ISE v3 – PowerShell Magazine
• Cheat ‘book’ – Will Steele
• PowerShell String Comparison and List Filtering – Michael Sorens
• PowerShell Gotchas: Moving from VBScript to PowerShell – Richard Mueller
• Regular Expressions

Blogs and other resources

• Windows PowerShell Survival Guide – This is a massive list, be sure to check it out
• What’s New in Windows PowerShell – Feature list and details on PowerShell 3 and 4
• PowerShell Magazine
• Hey, Scripting Guy!
• Windows PowerShell Blog
• VMware PowerCLI Blog
• Tome’s Land of IT
• Shay Levy
• Richard Siddaway’s Blog
• Parallel Universe – MS Tech Blog
• BSonPoSH
• blog.powershell.no
• The Lonely Administrator
• Trevor Sullivan’s Tech Room
• Sev17 – SQL
• VMware Admins
• Scripting with Windows PowerShell
• Windows PowerShell User’s Guide
• Popular PowerShell Modules

Communities

• PowerShell.org
• PowerShell Forum
• PowerShell Code Repository
• PowerShell.com Community
• PowerGUI.org Community
• PowerShell Community Groups
• VMware vSphere PowerCLI
• Reddit – /r/PowerShell
• Reddit – /r/UsefulScripts
• irc.freenode.net #PowerShell

Videos and Podcasts

• PowerShell in a Month of Lunches
• PowerScripting
• PowerShell Power Hours
• Speeding up PowerShell – Dr. Tobias Weltner
• Webcasts from the Scripting Guys
• PowerShell Summit 2013 sessions

Books and eBooks

• Mastering PowerShell – Dr. Tobias Weltner
• PowerShell 2.0 One Cmdlet at a time – Jonathan Medd
• WQL via PowerShell – Ravikanth Chaganti
• A Layman’s Guide to PowerShell Remoting – Ravikanth Chaganti
• Secrets of PowerShell Remoting – Don Jones, Dr. Tobias Weltner
• Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell – Don Jones
• Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches – Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks
• Windows PowerShell in Action – Bruce Payette
• Windows PowerShell Cookbook – Lee Holmes
• Windows PowerShell for Developers – Douglas Finke

Tools and Add-ons

• PowerShell 3.0 – Many updates, including an ISE helpful for learning and general use
• The Windows PowerShell Toolbox – Includes links to popular tools like PowerShell Plus (now free!) and Sapien’s offerings
• Microsoft Wiki for Popular PowerShell Modules – A list of PowerShell modules and snapins
• Microsoft Wiki for PowerShell-Enabled Technologies
• ShowUI – Build WPF user interfaces in script

This is what I have so far. Some of it is a bit dated;  for example, PowerGUI isn’t quite as active as it once was.  I’m likely overlooking a number of resources that I simply find using google, or that are out of the scope of what I do (e.g. I don’t work with SharePoint).

If you have any suggestions on resources to include, how to better organize these, or any other insight, it would be greatly appreciated!