2. The Case for PowerShell why you should learn-PowerShell so you needn't leave-industry Presented by Mark Minasi mark@minasi.com web site www.minasi.com twitter mminasi

3. About Me 2

4. Which Brings Me to Today's Topic… 3

5. "Why Learn PowerShell?" 4

6. Why You Really Have to Learn PowerShell 5

7. Why You'll Like It 6

8. "Really? I hate command line tools!" I know why, and I can fix it…. 7

9. How CLI Tools Can Be Great 8

10. Why CLIs Suck 9

11. PowerShell Cmdlet Structure 10

12. The Four Big PoSH Verbs 11

13. Parameters 12

14. A "It Won't Waste Your Time" Example 13

15. "These Commands Look Really Long…" 14

16. So… Can You Guess What These Do? 15

17. Discovering Commands: Get-Command 16

18. Hmmm… sounds cute, but is it really useful?

19. Well, Remote Control is Pretty Good 18

20. And Then There's the Pipeline 19

21. Simple High-Level Example 20

22. 21 get-aduser AD Web ServiceActive Directory The Pipeline "all users please!"

23. AD Gets PowerShell how this will work (2) 22 The Pipeline "Where" command criterion: only disabled users! The Pipeline

24. How this will work (3) 23 The Pipeline Remove-ADUser

25. Another Example 24

26. PowerShell Can Even Build GUI Tools 25

27. Example Applications 26

28. Summarizing, PoSH is Worth Learning Because 27

29. Thank You! 28