People and places you should get to know

PowerShell has great community support. This section provides you with many useful links to the project page and forums, as well as a number of helpful articles, tutorials, blogs, and the Twitter feeds of PowerShell's super contributors.

Official sites

• Homepage: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd835506(v=vs.85).aspx

• Manual and documentation: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb978526.aspx

• Wiki: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/183.windows-powershell-survival-guide.aspx

• Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/

Articles and tutorials

• A video playlist from the "PowerShell Guru" Don Jones displaying all cool features of PowerShell is available at http://www.youtube.com/user/powershelldon. A must watch!

• Refer to the PowerShell—Working With Regular Expressions (regex) article at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4310.powershell-working-with-regular-expressions-regex.aspx

• Refer to the PowerShell—Advanced Function Parameter Attributes article at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15994.powershell-advanced-function-parameter-attributes.aspx

Blogs

• The blog by PowerShell MVP's PowerShell magazine at http://www.powershellmagazine.com/

• POWERSHELL PRO!: http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/

• PowerShell.com: http://powershell.com/cs/

• PowerShellbooks.com :http://www.powershellbooks.com/

• PowerShell.org: http://powershell.org/wp/

Twitter

• Follow PowerShellMagazine on Twitter at @PowerShellMag

• Follow PowerScripting on Twitter at @powerscripting

• Follow ShayLevy on Twitter at @ShayLevy

• Follow Glenn Sizemore on Twitter at @glnsize