Unfortunately, GUIs have zero return on that investment. He hovered over icons and read tooltips, pulled down menus, and right-clicked things, all to see what was available. Don remembers the first time he opened Active Directory Users and Computers. GUIs are great because they enable you to discover what you can do. After all, the GUI is largely the point of Windows-the operating system isn’t called Text, after all. Windows administrators have always been happy to click around in the graphical user interface (GUI) to accomplish their chores. Let’s start by considering what life was like before PowerShell came along, and look at some of the advantages of using this shell. We think it’s valuable to understand why you should care about PowerShell, because when you do, you’ll feel comfortable that the time you commit to learning PowerShell will pay off. Let’s face it, PowerShell isn’t exactly Microsoft’s (or anyone else’s) first effort at providing automation capabilities to Windows administrators. Why you can no longer afford to ignore PowerShellīatch. We started changing our teaching patterns, beginning with the many conferences we speak at each year. Like all good shells, it has scripting capabilities, but you don’t have to use them, and you certainly don’t have to start with them. At this point, we realized that PowerShell isn’t a scripting language It’s a command-line shell where you run command-line utilities. All of a sudden, our old teaching patterns didn’t work as well, because we had focused on scripting and programming.
More and more administrators without prior VBScript experience started trying to learn PowerShell. As a result, we and the other folks who taught PowerShell wrote books and articles, and all adopted a teaching style that takes advantage of prior programming or scripting skills.įrom late 2009 a shift occurred. Back then, most of the folks using PowerShell were experienced VBScript users, and they were eager to apply their VBScript skills to learning PowerShell. We’ve used and taught PowerShell from the early days (some of us from Version 1). Take 37% off Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches: 4 th Edition by entering fccplunk into the discount code box at checkout at. From Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, 4 th Edition by Travis Plunk, James Petty, Tyler Leonhardt, Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks
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