3 reasons to learn PowerShell

[Music] so there's probably three reasons to learn Powershell first of all yes if you just want to create a user account or stop a service or something doing it from the is way faster than figuring out the power shell command once you've figured out the Powershell command though a lot of times we as it Pros have to do the same thing over and over and over again configure 27 web servers or something like that and you want consistency the great thing about Powershell is you can cut and paste texts you can do it over and over and over again that's the first value the second value is that once you've expended that time once okay it was 3 hours to figure out the first time but it's 5 Seconds afterwards the second thing though along those lines is the boss is constantly saying did you document what you did could you just document you know what if everything you do in Powershell you copy and paste it to notepad here's the documentation BS it's documentation that runs itself what it means is you can rebuild the system in almost no time at all and by the way 2A is you know they do these salary surveys on a regular basis about what it pros make in the windows World versus the Unix guys Unix guys make like $10,000 a year more than we do and you know why it's because they're not clicking they're working in the black screen you know the screen and the command line stuff and they don't have that c call and backlash users backlash Mark great toide oh no no no no no they got a prompt like percent sign or dollar sign which is odd cuz you'd think if there was an operating system that had a dollar sign a prompt to be Windows you know and so you know the boss goes by and they're typing a and trough and GP and LS and the boss like I couldn't do that stuff we got to pay these guys for more money with poell you can look really really cryptic so that could be more money the third reason is there are times that you have to say you know happens maybe five times a year maybe twice a year you got a complicated problem find everybody who meets his Criterion and delete them or unlock them or whatever and you know in the VB script days that was three days a lot of prayer and a lot of sweat in the power Shell World we write a one liner where we're taking one command that's where we find the victims and we feed them into the slaughter Troth or whatever it is the filter and the hammer and once you've done a few of those when I'm trying to do this what I do is I don't I used to try to teach Parell that was a big mistake what I do now is I try to teach how to administer your your ad using Powershell and by the way end up learning poell in the process and it's the simplest thing in the world to learn to glue them together and by the way that was three 3A is and this is important Microsoft has this thing they do where once they decide to pow shize something exchange was first and then one of the system centers and a virtual machine manager active directory this thing happens where once they get the Powershell religion about 15% or 20% of what you want to do you can only do with Powershell if you want to turn on the active director recycle bin which is an awesome feature it's a power shell command that's longer than me and you got you have to learn that much power shell the ACT directory recycle bin appears wonderful stuff undelete users only works the Powershell I'm not an exchange guy but you know teleport an exchange guy into this chair and he or she could give you 15 Great Exchange things you can only do with Powershell so to a certain extent going to give you reason 3B is resistance is feudal we will assimilate your technology if you want to be an ad if you want to be an administrator you have to at least learn Powershell to do that kind of stuff oh and in the end analysis once you are comfy with it and it's so easy that's the thing okay this is four I told you three no one expects the Spanish Inquisition so uh the fourth reason is Powershell is an Administration tool where watch that first step it's a Lulu but when I do what I'm teaching people is we spend forever on get-aduser which is the first Powershell command once you're past that we are blasting through the rest of commands because like oh remember the remember the dash confirm yeah it works here too and remember the the dash what if works here too and know by the way remember the dash and and this is how we find the positional parameter well let stuff just falls into place you spend an hour on your first po shell command and 15 seconds on all the others cool

Channel: Pluralsight

Views: 82,654

Keywords: Mark Minasi, Windows PowerShell (Programming Language), Pluralsight, it training, powershell value, learn powershell, powershell overview, advantages of powershell, system administrator, configuration management, command-line shell

Id: 5m-co2k4dyY

Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 03 2014