- I hope you've enjoyed this course
as much as I've enjoyed being able to put it together for ya
and take you through getting up and running
with PowerShell Version 5.
And I have some, well, next steps
that you can take to start to dive a little bit deeper.
There are a couple of books out there
that have been pretty much standards
in our environment when working with PowerShell
that can also help you out.
Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches
and Learn Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches.
Remember how we were starting
to parameter-ize that script?
Well Toolmaking can take ya a little bit further.
Also something that I would like
to take you out and show you are
there's some free e-books that'll help you dive
a little bit deeper on some of the topics
that we've talked about here,
such as on making better HTML reports,
and more detail on remoting
and how to talk to the security guys
about getting the remoting turned on.
Those free e-books can be found at PowerShell.org.
And let me take you to my client computer
and show you what that looks like.
Out at PowerShell.org,
there's a lot of support and it's all free support
for you to go to.
There are forums where you can ask questions.
Even being brand new to PowerShell,
or even later on, if you're an expert at PowerShell,
go out to the forums and ask questions.
There's articles and newsletters,
but one of the most important things
that we try to put together for you
from PowerShell.org is resources and the free e-books
and right now there are several available out there
and they're updated all the time.
And just to give you an idea,
secrets of PowerShell remoting,
as we were talking about the different aspects of remoting,
this'll answer all the questions that you have
creating beautiful HTML reports.
This is going further into those reports,
and some of the common PowerShell gotchas.
And I'll be honest with you,
you probably don't have to read much of that one
because we did all those in here, so during this course.
But there are some other topics
that you might find useful out here as well.
As a technology to look forward to
as you start working with PowerShell,
there is an e-book down here,
but the technology is called Desired State Configuration,
and you're gonna wanna start to get involved into that.
This allows you to create configurations
that machines will just become.
And this is something similar to
in the Unix environments if you've worked
with Puppet or Chef, and this is on the PowerShell side.
So a lot of things that might interest you.
Something else that might be of interest to you
is something called the Microsoft Virtual Academy.
And at the Microsoft Virtual Academy,
these are some free videos
that are done with some interesting people.
And what I'd like to show you is
if you go up to the search bar
and type "PowerShell", the inventor of PowerShell
who is now the distinguished engineer
at Microsoft: Jeffrey Snover,
has done a couple of interesting videos out here.
Sometimes it's great to be able to hear it
from the person who created PowerShell
and the entire Windows management framework,
who architected this, who is architecting
the server and components of your data center today
as a lead architect, to hear their perspective on things.
There's a Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start,
and an Advanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell.
And in these, you get to meet and hear
the perspective from Jeffrey Snover
and oddly, I think I'm in there too, so (laughs)
you could take a look at those.
Regardless of where you go from here with PowerShell,
the best thing to do is keep diving deeper
and use the resources that are available to you.
Now, the internet and your favorite search engine,
but also the resources that you can find
at places like PowerShell.org
that can help you get further along with PowerShell.
It certainly has changed my IT career,
and I wish you the best of luck.
As I always say: well, "Knowledge is PowerShell."