The short version of everything I study — key commands and facts by topic, each linking to the full chapter notes.
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18 entries across collections.
MoL ch. 7 — management shells, snap-ins vs modules, module discovery/import, profile scripts, and the PowerShell Gallery.
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MoL ch. 8 — what objects are, Get-Member, properties and methods, Sort-Object, Select-Object, and format-last discipline.
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Full class notes for MoL ch. 7: management shells, snap-ins vs modules, module discovery/import, profile scripts, and the PowerShell Gallery.
Lesson Note
Full class notes for MoL ch. 8: what objects are, Get-Member, properties and methods, Sort-Object, Select-Object, and format-last discipline.
Lesson Note
PowerShell providers and PSDrives — what they are, the built-in list, filesystem-style navigation, registry keys vs properties, and wildcards vs -LiteralPath.
Resource Cheatsheet
PowerShell's object pipeline — Export-Csv vs Export-Clixml, Out-File and Out-Printer, ConvertTo-Html, Stop-Process/Stop-Service safety, and common pipeline mistakes.
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Full class notes on PowerShell providers and PSDrives: what providers are, filesystem organisation, other data stores as drives, navigation, and wildcards vs literal paths.
Lesson Note
Full class notes on the PowerShell pipeline: connecting commands, exporting to CSV/XML, printing, ConvertTo-Html, system-modifying cmdlets, and common pipeline confusion points.
Lesson Note
Month of Lunches ch. 1 — why PowerShell matters, Windows PowerShell 5.1 vs PowerShell 7, installing and verifying PS7, lab setup, and how to study the book.
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Month of Lunches ch. 2 — engine vs host, console/Windows Terminal/VS Code, console setup, tab completion, PSReadLine history and predictions, and running elevated.
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Month of Lunches ch. 3 — Update-Help/Save-Help, finding commands with Get-Command, reading syntax and parameter sets, Get-Help options, about_ topics, and -WhatIf/-Confirm.
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Month of Lunches ch. 4 — command anatomy, Verb-Noun naming and approved verbs, cmdlet/function/alias/application, aliases cross-platform, shortcuts, external commands, errors, execution policy.
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Graphical tools are good for doing one thing, once. They struggle with:
Lesson Note
PowerShell is two things working together:
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PowerShell has thousands of commands, and every module you install adds more. No one memorises them. Skilled PowerShell users are skilled at finding and reading help. The book is emphatic on this point: if you learn…
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Many people avoid PowerShell because they think it means "programming". But most day-to-day PowerShell is simply typing commands and pressing Enter, just as you would in CMD or Bash. A script is only a text file of…
Lesson Note
Labs from Microsoft Learn Windows PowerShell. Commands plus a screenshot of what they printed.
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