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Featured Webcast Series
Windows PowerShell: Learn It Now Before It's an Emergency
Series: Part 1 of 5
Duration: 55 minutes 36 Seconds
Date: March 28, 2011
Learn the basics of Windows PowerShell from Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson. In this five-part webcast series, Ed demonstrates starting and stopping processes and services, working with event logs, writing your first Windows PowerShell script, working with files, and more.
Windows PowerShell: Learn It Now Before It's an Emergency
Series: Part 2 of 5
Duration: 59 minutes 32 Seconds
Date: March 28, 2011
Learn the basics of Windows PowerShell from Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson. In this five-part webcast series, Ed demonstrates starting and stopping processes and services, working with event logs, writing your first Windows PowerShell script, working with files, and more.
Windows PowerShell: Learn It Now Before It's an Emergency
Series: Part 3 of 5
Duration: 58 minutes 32 Seconds
Date: March 28, 2011
Learn the basics of Windows PowerShell from Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson. In this five-part webcast series, Ed demonstrates starting and stopping processes and services, working with event logs, writing your first Windows PowerShell script, working with files, and more.
Windows PowerShell: Learn It Now Before It's an Emergency
Series: Part 4 of 5
Duration: 60 minutes 04 Seconds
Date: March 28, 2011
Learn the basics of Windows PowerShell from Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson. In this five-part webcast series, Ed demonstrates starting and stopping processes and services, working with event logs, writing your first Windows PowerShell script, working with files, and more.
Windows PowerShell: Learn It Now Before It's an Emergency
Series: Part 5 of 5
Duration: 57 minutes 10 Seconds
Date: March 28, 2011
Learn the basics of Windows PowerShell from Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson. In this five-part webcast series, Ed demonstrates starting and stopping processes and services, working with event logs, writing your first Windows PowerShell script, working with files, and more.
Take a Windows PowerShell Quiz This is a quick quiz to help you determine if you are an advanced scripter or a beginning scripter. You might even learn a thing or two along the way.
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Ed Wilson makes regular appearances on TechNet Radio, sharing his knowledge of scripting and Windows PowerShell.
Seven days each week, Scripting Guy Ed Wilson answers your questions about Windows PowerShell. Learning this stuff could be daunting. Ed makes sure it's not.
Hey, Scripting Guy! Getting Started posts Take advantage of the Getting Started tag on the blog so you can easily find Windows PowerShell content intended for beginners.
Windows PowerShell Script Repository Browse a repository of sample Windows PowerShell scripts written by MVPs, IT pros, Microsoft employees, and others.
This Getting Started guide provides an introduction to Windows PowerShell that includes the language, the cmdlets, the providers, and the use of objects.
The Windows PowerShell User's Guide is intended for IT professionals, programmers, and power users who have no prior background with Windows PowerShell.
If you are a VBScript script writer looking to try your hand at Windows PowerShell, take a look at this conversion guide, which shows you how to replicate VBScript functions and methods in Windows PowerShell.
Download Windows PowerShell 2.0 This Windows Management Framework download includes Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0. Download it today!