This section includes a list of pointers to guides that show you how to get started with PowerShell. For a more general list of sites that simply talk about PowerShell you should take a look in the "Essential PowerShell Resources Section".
Wiki Life: Introducing Power Wiki - How to search TechNet Wiki content within the PowerShell console
How to Use PowerShell to Create a Wiki Catalog Page (en-US)
You get PowerShell, either fully loaded as a part of Window 7/Server 2008 R2 or later, as an add-on (eg Server 2008 RTM that enabled you to load PowerShell Version 1) or as an OS Patch.
Windows Management Framework 3.0 - Windows Management Framework 3.0 makes some updated management functionality available to be installed on Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 & Windows Server 2008 SP2. Windows Management Framework 3.0 contains Windows PowerShell 3.0, WMI & WinRM.
Windows PowerShell Version 2.0 - Windows PowerShell Version 2 is installed with Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (although with the server core installations, it's not installed by default). For all other versions of Windows (on which PowerShel is supported), you need to download the appropriate package and install it. The download includes Windows PowerShell Version 2 and WinRM 2.0.
PowerShell 2.0 SDK - The Windows PowerShell 2.0 SDK provides the reference assemblies needed to write cmdlets, providers, and hosting applications, and it provides C# sample code that can be used as the starting point when you begin writing code.
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Note: Some of the links here were sourced from the PowerShell Security Survival Guide
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There are numerous repositories of PowerShell sample scripts. Some are very simple and just demonstrate one or two particular aspects of a class or COM object,while others are richer and fuller featured and do more. But all can be adapted, modified, and leveraged.
A List of Powershell-Enabled Technologies you can find here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4309.powershell-enabled-technologies-en-us.aspx
A List of Windows Features and Roles that Take Advantage of Windows PowerShell you can find here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4327.list-of-windows-features-and-roles-that-take-advantage-of-windows-powershell-en-us.aspx
Most Videos you can get on channel9 http://channel9.msdn.com/search?term=powershell Webcast you can find by search true the Internet:
Note: you can get all of the Windows PowerShell posts from these English Language blogs in one place (and as a single RSS feed).
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**I changed the title from a brand-based (Survival Guide) title to a task=based title to observe the effect on page views and discoverability. This particular experiment resulted in significant reduction in page views. So I changed it back. Because that's the kind of thing you can do on the wiki :-)