I wanted to add that if you're brand new to PowerShell then you should take a look at <em>PowerShell in a Month of Lunches</em>.
Also, take a look at /r/PowerShell. There are fantastic people in there, and they're incredibly knowledgeable.
The best way to learn anything depends on your learning style. Some people learn better by reading, some by watching videos, and some by doing. It's important to know how you learn effectively.
That said, my recommendation is to find a routine task you do regularly and figure out how to do it automatically with PowerShell. Do you archive old report files to a specific directory structure? Learn about Copy-Item
. Do you manage Exchange, SCCM, O365, anything like that? They all have automation support with PowerShell. There are even community modules that support a lot of third-party products - for example, the JiraPS project allows you to manage JIRA items with PowerShell, including creating new issues, commenting on existing ones, and closing them out.
If you prefer reading, the book <u>Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches</u> is often recommended - but it's very important that you actually follow along with the exercises in the book. Type them and run them on a live computer whenever possible.
If you prefer videos, I suggest the Microsoft Virtual Academy series on PowerShell. These are a bit long, but they do a great job of teaching you both concepts and practical knowledge.
Hope that helps!
I'm not sure I'd consider Powershell devops than a core Windows administration tool. Devops to me would be like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc. (Puppet I think would be good for a Windows person to learn.)
You can do Powershell in a month of lunches: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Windows-PowerShell-Month-Lunches/dp/1617291080
You can do the Microsoft Virtual Academy as well: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/training-courses/getting-started-with-powershell-3-0-jump-start-8276
Powershell is very object oriented and pipelined, it's not a bunch of "++1, !, +3," style of true programming. It's more of a "get-aduser doej"
A lot of the commands are the same syntax prefixes, like "get" and "export".
Don't be discouraged, envision yourself knowing this inside and out in a year, and your mind will work you toward this goal.
What, specifically, do you work with that you think can benefit from scripting?
Powershell in a month of lunches is apparently quite good, that will cover Powershell from the basics to relatively advanced concepts, although I don't recall it covers AD.
Once you have a grasp of PowerShell, the AD modules are not much trouble to learn at all, MCSA should at least cover some of that.
Also - Take a look under the "resources" tab on the right of this sub.
I like a nice ham sandwich for a lunch point.
As far as getting into PS. This is the usual recommendation.
https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Windows-PowerShell-Month-Lunches/dp/1617291080
Enjoy your book and sandwich.
Learn Powershell in a Month of Lunches
Also, SS64 has a great Index/reference of PS commands.
Another good thing to do is to start searching the web for "how do I $taskName in Powershell."
> had any tips for solidifying the foundations.
I strongly recommend the book How Linux Works by Brian Ward, at No Starch Press. 392 pages.
Update: Here's a sample chapter Disks and Filesystems
While published in 2015, most of it is still very relevant. Page for page, it's the best Linux book I've encountered. Topics range from simple to complex, and intuitively organized as well. I found it applicable, of course, to most of Arch.
Good luck.
Lol what?
Dude, you don't need any fucking classes to start out in IT
You can buy textbooks and earn certs while spending minimum amounts of money
Do not sign up for some fucking ridiculous 23k course. That's insane.
This field is so beautiful because you can dive in without any student debt whatsoever, don't hamstring yourself by going into debt like that
If you want an entry level job, go buy the A+ cert book on amazon
Maybe do network+ too(that's the path i started out with so I'm biased I suppose).
You're talking like less than 50 bucks for the textbooks and then a couple hundred bucks for the tests(total), and with those 2 certs you can easily get an entry level help desk job and start working your way up.
It beats the fuck out of manual labor, that's for sure
If you’re looking for resources that may be helpful, have you tried the “Learn PowerShell in a month of lunches” series by Don Jones? https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617294160/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_fJafCb1K1VSKQ
Also, Microsoft Virtual Academy has a good training course with Jeffrey Snover (https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/getting-started-with-microsoft-powershell-8276)
They’ve been a major help to me and I had no experience coding prior to them.
There sure are books!
My favorite authors are Mike Myers and Todd Lammle.
Here's a guide for the CompTIA A+ certification.
These books can be a bit pricey, but it's EVERYTHING you need to know for the certification. If you have this book and a computer to practice on, you have everything you need to pass. The book is nearly 1,500 pages long as well. If you struggle to afford the books, you can always search online for illegal copies of older versions and possibly even the latest version that I linked. I assume the copyright police aren't going to be breaking down your doors.
The A+ certification estimates 6-9 months of hands-on training to be able to pass, but it can definitely be done in a shorter amount of time. Don't get dissuaded if after a month you feel tired of studying. Even if you don't have the means to take the exam, the information you can learn will help you so much.
Pick up Powershell in a month of lunches and grab a free month trial of pluralsight. Two great resources for learning the basics.
For your lab, check on your local craigslist; someone is always getting rid of some gear there. If not there try EBay, can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a CCNA lab kit like these: Cisco Lab Kit
Once you have lab equipment, get some windows servers spun up as that will make learning powershell both applicable and rewarding to you.
Seems like a good start if you want some Basic knowledge about the Linux Kernel and init system stuff. I myself ordered it just a week ago since I‘m on a similar journey as you are. Hope it helps. Btw I learnt most of my stuff from Reddit posts, Archwiki and experience.
2nd this.
The Linux Command Line. Author offers free PDF for download or you can support and buy from amazon.
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Command-Line-Complete-Introduction/dp/1593273894/r
https://www.amazon.com/How-Linux-Works-Brian-Ward/dp/1718500408
I’ve not read it myself but it seems popular, I do own it but I bought it after having used Linux for 20+ years so it’s been sitting on my shelf ever since. Another tip is to just use Linux every day.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617294160/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_r74aGb8T88YNW
That book helped me learn all the basics and then some that I needed, when I started learning powershell. I still use it as a reference for writing scripts even after reading it too. It is super helpful and gets you learning the shell, the syntax of the script, and how to find information in the shell to do what you need. I can't recommend this enough.
Powershell is a very handy tool to have, but you don't need to 'dedicate' yourself. Go through this book and you'll be a step above a majority of IT professionals easily. https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Windows-PowerShell-Month-Lunches/dp/1617291080
Ticket: "I cannot change the order of my displays from control panel anymore"
Ticket Closed
Resolution: Git gud, scrub
There is an all in one A+ book on amazon (https://www.amazon.com/CompTIA-Certification-Guide-220-901-220-902/dp/125958951X) This book is a good read through for general concepts - read it quickly, don't go super hardcore study mode on this book, its quite long. This along with professor messer (free, google it)after quickly reading through was all I used to get my A+.
If you have some knowledge of computers and perhaps built your own you could be ready for a helpdesk role already. I know all I had was "customer service" and some basic technical knowledge before I got my first job. Just be sure to word your customer service skills as if you were on the phone doing customer service - since this may be a large portion of the job. Asides from that - google common helpdesk interview questions, their answers, and then google the specific terms like dhcp and dns to understand how they work.
Depends on your previous knowledge of scripting/programming but if little to none I'd recommend
Learn Powershell in a month of lunches: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617294160/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_3H478HT6G3ZY175PXSHD
I'm not aware of a fourth edition. You want "Learn Windows Powershell in a Month of Lunches". This is the one I have but it's third edition: Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition: Amazon.co.uk: Jones, Donald, Hicks, Jeffrey: 9781617294167: Books
There is also "Learn Powershell Scripting in a Month of Lunches" - This has a yellow cover and should be read after the above book. It goes into writing scripts you can reuse but you need to know the basics in the first book before you can really get into this.
There is also another called "Learn Powershell Tool Making in a Month of Lunches" - This is an older version of "Learn Powershell Scripting in a Month of Lunches". They renamed it in later versions.
What are you using to study right now?
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I have my second test today, but I've used Mike Meyer's book as well as his Udemy course. Then I used Jason Dion's practice exams. Those are all very popular resources to get started.
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Another popular (and free) resource is professor Messer on Youtube.
You can't do it this way. Linux is too big to learn everything sequentially in small steps. And it's not very practical. If you want to learn in a way that is practical and sequential, check out this book for Red Hat certification: https://www.amazon.com/RHCSA-Linux-Certification-Study-Seventh/dp/0071841962/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=red+hat+certification&qid=1594663391&sr=8-3
I would suggest the following:
1) Know how to install your favorite Linux distro. Do it several times so you are very familiar with it.
2) Learn how to boot into Linux manually with Grub.
3) Set up a firewall using firewalld, iptables, or nftables. Script it.
4) Learn how to start, stop, enable, and disable system services with systemd.
5) Add users and groups. Add user to wheel group.
6) Gain system access with su or sudo.
7) Learn the command line. It is your friend.
8) Learn the basics of Vi since it's on every Linux system.
9) Find your distro's documentation and get an idea of what's there. Pick out something that interests you and do it.
10) Figure out something you want and will use a lot. Do it in Linux.
https://www.amazon.com/CompTIA-Certification-Guide-220-901-220-902/dp/125958951X
Basically the A+ bible right there. Mike Meyers cert books are pretty much the go to. For CCNA, they publish their own stuff.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617294160/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_WG7E0NR7WXYNM1H67Z28
That book is probably one of the best books I've ever read for learning a topic. Other than reading that book, I would suggest finding something you want to automate and then plugging that into Google. I think the first script I ever wrote was a mass reboot of all workstations in my domain. I just googled it until I found where someone else did it and then tweaked it for my use.
if all you plan on doing is music, videos and surfing the web then you have nothing to loose. Install Mint or Ubuntu on that baby!
Edit: Also, This is a pdf of the textbook I used in my Intro to Linux class that helped me to get to know the basics. It is a great book. You can also get it on amazon if you would rather have a physical copy.
Awesome! I'm feeling more and more confident about this now! I'll most likely attempt a networking certification through CompTIA as well, but later on. I believe you're referring to the book that I saw on Amazon:
CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Ninth Edition (Exams 220-901 & 220-902)
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/125958951X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_nTIlybCJWQ4J1
It's the one I was considering buying, but I saw 2015 somewhere on the page and didn't know if it was still applicable.
Not really fair to link to a PDF copy of the book. It's a fantastic book and worth purchasing and supporting the author.
Beaten? I've literally been laughing at you. Lol. Good job, guess someone should tell CIG they are broke then! Lol. It obviously takes a genius to understand that a company keeps selling their product to not go out of business. Quick, tell Amazon!
And sorry thought you MIGHT have two brain cells to do a search. Guess I was wrong! Here ya go! https://www.amazon.com/Google-Dummies-Computers-Brad-Hill/dp/0764544209
Still waiting on your successful crowd funding campaign. Just gonna ignore that huh? Derek was wrong about names, about FTC investigations, about lawsuits, about studios closing, about CIG being out of money, about 2.0 being impossible, about 2.63 being shown at gamescom, about Ali B being fired, about Tony Z leaving CIG, about mass walkouts, about money laundering, about Amazon buying CIG, about the engine switch ( he doesn't even understand what a fucking game engine is) about his own fucking games ever launching. He was caught red-handed taking made up bullshit from "Steve" and IMMEDIATELY tweeting it, and then tried to play it off like he actually knew all along. So, is it worse to be wrong, or just pretend to be wrong and still be wrong? lol You taking anything he says seriously is just sad. And anyone who believes him after he's been proven such a liar and moron, must equally be as idiotic. But sure, lets beleive him, thats why CIG is out of money and not making the game....except they are. So...your "facts" or reality? pick one? Obviously it isn't the latter. So, I repeat, fuck off troll lol. You aren't "winning" you're just making yourself look stupider with each post.
I'm not sure of any websites but if you look up Professor Messer on youtube he streams a study group that you could follow along with. His channel is here:https://www.youtube.com/user/professormesser . You can buy the book from amazon for like 30 bucks I think. Good luck!
Yes everyone gets the cup, it comes with your webcam. How much IT experience do you have? Are you bringing any certs in with you(A+ maybe?). If not I'd suggest beginning to study for them now because they can eat a lot of time. There's a lot of resources for A+ out there that are free or close to it. I really liked Mike Meyers A+ book. It's $24 on Amazon but well worth it. Same for his Network+ book.