This slide was used at @PSBUG or PowerShell Bangalore User Group UG meet. This shows some fundamentals about getting started with PowerShell scripting

1. Getting started with PowerShell Scripting Ravikanth C

2. A lead engineer at Dell SharePoint professional by day and PowerShell scripter at night Blog at http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog Developer of PSCodePlex PSRemoteFileExplorer Remote File Explorer PowerPack BITS File Transfer PowerPack Author of Free eBook - Layman’s guide to PowerShell 2.0 remoting (Coming soon) About me

3. What is PowerShell? Getting started Using PowerShell Getting Help Tools for the job Learning resources Q & A Agenda

4. Remote file explorer -> 698 lines of PowerShell This is just one example..! Show me the Power first.!

5. The best shell scripting environment for Windows A new scripting language Replacement for a weak Windows command-line Default management / automation platform for all Microsoft products going forward Object based Built on top of .NET type system Everything is an object What is PowerShell?

6. PowerShell is in version 2.0 Default on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Part of Windows management framework download for Windows Server 2008, Vista, XP and Windows 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929 Requires .NET 2.0 SP1 or later Getting started

7. Console history, Intellisense for cmdlets, variables and parameters Using PowerShell: Console

8. Using PowerShell: ISE

10. A lightweight command

11. an instance of .NET framework classes

12. Use verb-noun pairs

14. Types User created variables Automatic variables Created by PowerShell to maintain its state Cannot be modified Examples: $PSHome, $$, $^, $?, etc Preference variables Created by PowerShell to store user preferences Can be modified Examples: $MaximumHistoryCount, etc Using PowerShell: Variables

15. Alternate names for cmdlets Cmdlets to manage aliases Export-Alias Get-Alias Import-Alias New-Alias Set-Alias Cannot take parameters Workaround: put the statement in a script and alias to that Example: Dir, ls, gcm, gci, etc Using PowerShell: Aliases

16. Conditional statements If Switch l.ooping For For ($i=0;$i –le 10;$i++) {Write-Host $i} Foreach Used on a collection of items Foreach ($name in $namesArray) { Write-Host $name } Do Do { Write-Host $i; $i++ } while ($i –le 10) Do { Write-Host $i;$i++} Until ($i –lt 10) While While ($i –le 10) { Write-Host $i;$i++ } Using PowerShell: Conditional & Looping

17. Comparison operators -ne, -eq, -lt, -gt, -ge, -le, -like, -notlike, -contains, -notcontains, -match, -notmatch Logical operators -or, -and, -xor, -not, ! Arithmetic operators Assignment operators Using PowerShell: Operators

18. Arrays Collection of objects of the same type $a = @( ) $a = “PowerShell”,”VBScript” Hash Tables Collection of key value pairs $ hash = @{ } $a = {“Name”=“PowerShell”; “IsHot”=$true} Using PowerShell: Arrays & Hash Tables

19. Getting Help Get-Command Gets a list of all commands Get-Help Shows help for a given cmdlet Get-Member Gets members of an object Get-PSDrive Shows information stores in PowerShell About_Topics Get-Help about*

20. In PowerShell, there will be more than one way to do the same thing. For example [System.Diagnostics.Process]::GetProcesses() Get-Process Understand execution policies Use PowerShell profiles Best practices

21. PowerShell Console PowerShell ISE PowerGUI AdminConsole PowerGUI ScriptEditor PowerWF PowerShell Plus Tools for the job

22. Getting started guide PowerShell Learning center Free PowerShell eBook The scripting Guys blog PowerScripting Podcast @PSBUG on Twitter Learning resources