PowerShell in Nutshell learn from these steps

Stage 1

• WebCast: Scott Hanselman – Developer Productivity Tools Part 3
• WebCast: PowerShell Week - Day 2: CmdLets
• Tutorial: MS Scripting Center Task-Based Tutorial
• PDF Quick Reference: PowerShell Cheat Sheet
• Podcast: HanselMinutes – Monad (show 11)
• Blog post: Learning PowerShell without leaving the command line

Stage 2

• CmdLet Exploration: Try all built-in CmdLets using Get-Command, Get-Help, and Get-Member. Don’t forget the -example param for Get-Help
• Podcast: Hanselminutes – Interview with Jeffrey Snover (Powershell Architect)
• Podcast: Hanselminutes – Interview with Bruce Payette (Powershell Dev Lead)
• Snap-In: Install and learn PSCX (see my last post for overview)
• Tool: PowerTab (provides intellisense)
• Demo SQL Provider: Download and install info on this Powershell Team Blog post.

Stage 3

• Book: Powershell in Action by Bruce Payette
• WMI Exploration: If you want to do anything against remote computers, you’ll have to master WMI. Use gwmi -list | ?{$_.name -like ‘win32_*’} to see a list of useful objects and start exploring.
• Sample Scripts: Script Center Repository
• Blog: Powershell Team
• Blog: Keith Hill
• Blog: Powershell Guy
• Blog: Dmitry