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A quick word in your shell-like
By Adam Bell | January 23, 2007
Okay, well before we get into this I’d like to clarify my position. I’m not a programmer. I use PowerShell for automation. I’m from the “Getting-Sh*t-done” perspective. Now this isn’t meant as a slur against Programmers. I have a few mates that would fit under the code-monkey banner, and they are top blokes, and good at what they do.
So where am I going with this? To give you an understanding that the scripting orientated stuff here might not be perfect. In fact it might not be particually well done, and I probably won’t be able to explain what everything is doing down to the nth degree. I’m not a “script-kiddie” either though, so I’ll explain what I know about the functions I put up here, and hopefully you might find them useful, or not.
There’s not many resources from Microsoft on the net for PS yet, which surprised me considering the length the product was in beta (since PDC ‘03). There are however some excellent blogs which help the initial heartache of learning something new. This is clouded a little by data pertaining to the pre RC2 drop, which in the RTM version behaves differently.
I’ve always found the Microsoft Script Center to be an excellent place to find VBScript examples. Unfortunately the PS examples to date are really of no use, and this is something I hope MS will rectify sooner rather than later.
In the mean time though I’ll post useful functions up here. They will mostly be Infrastructure centric as this is an area I have a lot to do with professionally.
So, coincidently that ties up the first post. Here conversation and constructive suggestions are welcome.
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Topics: PowerShell | 2 Comments »
January 24th, 2007 at 5:39 am
Hi Adam,
Hope you are finding PowerShell useful. The point about script center resources is valid and we are working on improving the Powershell scripts available on script center. In the meantime the following resources should be helpful ( I am sure you have already discovered these):
PowerShell newsgroup (very active and helpful): http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.powershell
PowerShell books:
http://www.manning.com/payette
http://www.sapienpress.com/powershell.asp
PowerShell blogs:
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell
http://www.leeholmes.com/blog
http://www.thepowershellguy.com
We will love to get your feedback as you go about using powershell.
Thanks,
Abhishek Agrawal [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell Team
January 24th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Thanks Abhishek.
I am aware of most of the links you identified. In fact I have included them in my links section to help others too.
I was merely disapointed that the MS Script Center examples were really just basic retrieval of properties via WMI. There didn’t appear to be any solid examples of setting properties in AD for example. Things will improve over time I’m sure.
Cheers
Adam