I’ve been using PS for a while now and I don’t hate it anymore :) In fact I think it’s very usable for lots of tasks and automation.

Some Useful commands:

• Get-Command *help* or Get-Command-Module PackageManagement
• Get-Member to view properties e.g. Get-Disk | Get-Member
• Get-Alias
• Get-ExecutionPolicy -List
• Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
• piping to select, sort and where
• Invoke-WebRequest $url

CSV, XML and JSON support is included:

• Import-CSV Export-CSV
• ConvertTo-XML
• ConvertFrom-Json ConverTO-Json

And stuff like:

• Logging sessions: Start-Transcript Stop-Transcript
• Viewing Certificates: cd Cert:\ (now you can ‘dir’ etc)
• Run as admin: powershell.exe -Command "Start-Process cmd -Verb RunAs"
• PS Linting: https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer

Remote usage is also possible over WinRM (or OpenSSH):

• Enter-PSSession -ComputerName <host>

Then there’s Loops, Params, Arrays and Hash Tables e.g. foreach, Param([string]$arg), @() and @{}…

More info:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-windows-powershell?view=powershell-6
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/overview/overview
• https://github.com/powershell/powershell
• https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable