Powershell Resources
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These resources are broadly broken down into
1. Powershell Overview, Modules, Homepage, Architecture
2. Powershell Language Reference
3. Azure Cloud Shell
4. Extraneous Links
5. Advanced Topics
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1. Powershell Overview, Modules, Homepage, Architecture
1. Powershell Overview, Modules, Homepage, Architecture
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What it covers
Entry point to all other resources.
Overview, Gallery, Module Browser, Latest versions, blogs, forums.
How to download and install if necessary.
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What it covers
Powershell Overview. Briefly talks about powershell philosophy.
How to discover commands using Get-command and Get-help.
It is also take you to the pane where all the documentation is presented.
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What it covers
This is a learning resources page at Github repo of powershell.
It documents key aliases that are often used in place of commandlets.
Commerical Resources and Books
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what it covers
Features of powershell extension
how to install
Intellisense, Run, Debug, Type hints
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Powershell Module Browser
Find all the modules and browse each module for functions
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Azure Powershell Modules Reference
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what it covers
Browse azure modules and commandlets here.
This is a link to the Az.Accounts module
For other modules in azure powershell see the Reference on the left
This is one way to browse Azure modules without searching
This is a like a directory of Azure Modules
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what it covers
Good to know verbs like Get, Set, Find etc.
Larger part of the document set in the commandlets SDK.
How to write commandlets using the SDK
Powershell SDk is here
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2. Powershell Language Reference
2. Powershell Language Reference
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What you will find here
Powershell is a programming language.
As you code in powershell you will need a language reference.
It is not documented like a traditional language reference.
It is there but it is hidden as something else.
This section of links show where language aspects are doucmented.
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Here is Language Reference: Also called "About"
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what it covers
It is a sub topic under powershell-docs/Reference/...powershell core/about.
Its parallel topics cover most of the language reference
Many references in this section are sub links here.
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How to work with conditional statements: if
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How to work with loops: for statement
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what it covers
It is a sub topic under powershell-docs/samplescripts/working-withobjects.
Select parts of an object, sort objects, do something for each object,
running a pipeline for objects.
This is not under the language reference documentation.
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4. Azure Cloud Shell
You can run powershell for azure directly in the cloud.
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Article by Thomas Maurer: Mastering Cloudshell
Article by Thomas Maurer: Mastering Cloudshell
Various features and benefits of Cloud azure-cloud-shell
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Mastering Azure using Cloud Shell, PowerShell and Bash!: Thomas Maurer: You tube
Mastering Azure using Cloud Shell, PowerShell and Bash!: Thomas Maurer: You tube
Really good video
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5. Advanced Topics
At some point you want to write your own commandlets.
Writing scripts using commandlets.
This helps with argument processing better.
Writing advanced functions.
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Powershell SDK Commandlet Overview
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what is covered here
useful for writing commandlets
A deeper topic
You won't need in your initial efforts at Powershell.
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Full Azure Automation - Part 1 The Azure Automation Service: youtube video
Full Azure Automation - Part 1 The Azure Automation Service: youtube video