When I was starting my journey with PowerShell I was hungry… hungry for knowledge.
While learning the shell, I wanted to be inspired and know all the news. Attending a local London PowerShell meet-up kept me inspired – watching advanced users and what they were doing with PowerShell on the job was mind-blowing.
To keep up to date, I curated a list of PowerShell online resources which proved to be the greatest option to learn all about PowerShell.
Here’s the list.
List of PowerShell Online Resources
PowerShell Community Blog
PowerShell Community is a part of the Microsoft Devblogs from Microsoft, where the PowerShell Community writes articles for the community. You can learn the best tricks from… the best.
Personal note: I spend a lot of time in the console, and this post helped me to take my console experience to the next level: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell-community/cheat-sheet-console-experience/
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The official blog for PowerShell. You get all announcements and news made by the PowerShell team. Any new versions (including pre-releases) or modules released by the team – it’s all in there. It’s probably the source of truth about PowerShell, apart from its source code.
Personal note: If you’re interested in what the PowerShell team is working on in 2024, check this post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-and-openssh-team-investments-for-2024/
The PowerShell Podcast
A podcast dedicated to PowerShel. Every week you get a new episode, which is usually no more than 1 hour long. Andrew brings the best guests to the show. While the show focuses on PowerShell, conversations go around it – think of real-life stories where PowerShell played a major part!
Personal note: Andrew invited Jeffrey Snover not long ago for the conversation – can you get any better than inviting the Father of the Shell to the episode?
Run As Radio Podcast
Podcast which revolves strongly around Microsoft and the IT side of the business. There’s a lot of PowerShell in episodes. You can also learn a lot about the latest technologies. Richard brings elite speakers to the show, and the episodes are around 30 minutes long.
Personal note: This is my go-to Podcast, it’s been for years – and I love the opening guitar solo! In this episode I learnt about native applications error handling in PowerShell 7.4: https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/929
PowerShell GitHub Repo
PowerShell has been open source since 2018 – hence you can find it on GitHub! Apart from source code, you can use Issues to ask for new features or report bugs. There are also discussions available.
Personal note: Let’s just pin release of v6 of PowerShell, when it became cross-platform: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v6.0.0
PowerShell Power Users
At the moment there are over 50k members of this LinkedIn group. You can ask questions or drop a link to your work in the group.
Personal note: I made a lot of connections in the group, just because I dropped a link from time to time and engaged in conversations. It’s truly great to be able to connect with like-minded fellow professionals!
PowerShell Discord Server
If there’s one thing this community stand out for, it is the speed at which you can get an answer. Often within minutes, somebody can solve the problem you’ve been struggling with for hours. In addition, you can find there a lot of PowerShell contributors and authors, who know the language throughout.
It’s worth noting that every question gets helped – no matter how simple or advanced, hence come and ask away!
Personal note: If there were one community I had to pick for PowerShell, it would be this Discord server.
PowerShell subreddit
Similar to LinkedIn, a huge community of PowerShell developers. If you prefer the vibe of Reddit over LinkedIn, this is your place to be.
Personal note: I love how this community has grown over the years. I can see now there many more advanced scriptures helping new PowerShell apprentices.
PowerShell User Group Rhein-Neckar
This is a fairly new meet-up, and it already gathered hundreds of members. During online meetups, you can talk directly to Heiko the organiser, the speaker and the others attending. Recordings are then published on YouTube.
Personal Note: I miss in-person meet-ups – as I used to be a regular at the London PowerShell user group. Having live presentations online is a great way to fill such a void.
PSConfEU and MiniCon
PSConfEU is the biggest PowerShell conference in Europe.
MiniCon is a free, online-only event – a great way to catch up with the rest of the PowerShell community.
Both events (and more) are organised by Gael Colas.
Personal Note: I had the pleasure to present at one of the Gael’s events: PSdayUk 2023.
Gael is also an organiser of PowerShell London UK meetup – thanks to this meet up I first heard about PowerShell and that’s the reason why you’re reading this post right now.
Summary
I hope you find something for yourself in the list – reading, listening or discussing with others. I’ve been using and contributing to all listed resources for years, hence I can recommend them to anyone interested in PowerShell.
What other PowerShell Online Resources would you add to the list?
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